About this podcast
A podcast where we talk about classic comedy with particular focus on the work of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe & Michael Bentine. You'll also hear us discuss the likes of Monty Python, Hancock, Blackadder, the Carry On films, Peter Cook, Steptoe & Son and countless other comedy figures & fixtures from the postwar era.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 256 episodes
- The Goons Sell Out · 1 h 22 min · Season 1 Episode 252Cars, hotels, cigarettes, breakfast cereal, airlines, petrol stations, banks, department stores, milk, newspapers, even nuts - there was seemingly nothing that the former members…
- Trailer: Episode Number Nine · 1 minComing soon! A new monthly podcast where we examine the ninth episode of classic – and not-so-classic – British sitcoms to see what it represents and tells us about the series…
- The Great Regent's Park Swim · 1 h 17 min · Season 1 Episode 251The Queen in America, Eurovision, Elvis, knitting a Spon, a Russian Love Song, Harry Rocking the Town! - it's all here this week! Plus: how much do we love Moriarty, a glaring…
- Jet Storm (1959) · 1 h 27 min · Season 1 Episode 250Jet Storm, also known as Jet Stream or Killing Urge, is a British thriller directed and co-written by Cy Endfield and starring Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Patrick Allen…
- Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973) · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 249“You’re worth more dead than alive!” We’ve talked a lot about Steptoe & Son – and its principle artistes – recently on Goon Pod and the sister show so it feels appropriate this…
- The Last Laugh Before TV-am (C4, 1985) · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 248Broadcast on Channel 4 on 2nd December 1985, The Last Laugh Before TV-am was Spike Milligan’s attempt to bring his particular vein of humour to a new generation... although very…
- The Seagoon Memoirs · 1 h 23 min · Season 1 Episode 247Field Marshals are queuing up to draw their pensions – it’s the first time they ever really wanted to go to the front. But Gunner Ned Seagoon, former Ablutions Orderly at…
- The Royal Variety Performance 1963 (with Steven Cockcroft) · 1 h 41 min · Season 1 Episode 246An annual tradition dating back to the year the Titanic went down – a useful metaphor to describe some of the subsequent acts who sank without trace – the Royal Variety…
- Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) · 1 h 26 min · Season 1 Episode 245The first half of the 1970s was not a particularly fruitful period for Peter Sellers, at least in terms of critical and commercial success. He made a slew of films which failed…
- Sellers & Milligan Mixtape · 1 h 22 min · Season 1 Episode 244This week, special guest Richard Moore joins Tyler for what we're going to call Sellers & Milligan Mixtape. Richard has pulled together a number of rarities and curios from the…
- The Silent Bugler · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 243The Silent Bugler is a good example of Spike Milligan revisiting earlier material, with the later Vintage Goons remake refining rather than reinventing the original. The…
- Only Two Can Play (1962) · 1 h 24 min · Season 1 Episode 242The wan Don who thinks he’s Don Juan – a Welsh librarian gets the seven-year-itch. This week writer Paul Whitelaw makes his first faltering steps into Goon Pod territory to talk…
- Puckoon (1963) · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 241“Caw!” said the crow. “Balls!” said the Milligan. This week, we look at a book that Spike Milligan claimed took either five years - or ten years and fifteen secretaries - to…
- How I Won The War (1967) · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 240Following on from last week’s conversation with Samira Ahmed about A Hard Day’s Night we continue the Richard Lester theme with a look at his 1967 anti-war satire How I Won the…
- Samira Ahmed on A Hard Day's Night · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 239Writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed joins Tyler this week to talk about her new book on A Hard Day’s Night and its roots in the world of the Goons, from the Fred shows to The…
- World War One (aka '_________!') · 1 h 25 min · Season 1 Episode 238Join us as we march off to war wearing squeaky socks and woolly underpants, before surrendering to the twisted logic of Spike Milligan (“better looking than Peter Sellers”)…
- Digby The Biggest Dog In The World (1973) · 1 h 29 min · Season 1 Episode 237"He's only got to lift his leg and he'll drown 50 kids!" This week: Digby, The Biggest Dog in the World, a 1973 British family comedy in which an Old English Sheepdog…
- Fool Britannia (LP, 1963) · 1 h 18 min · Season 1 Episode 236"Round the back for the old cherry brandy!" Recorded in New York on 6 August 1963, this satirical comedy album brought together Peter Sellers, Anthony Newley, Joan Collins…
- Invasion Quartet (1961) · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 235This week we look at Invasion Quartet (1961), one of the most significant, if forgotten, films in Spike Milligan's career. Set in a military convalescent hospital on the English…
- Marty Feldman - One Pair Of Eyes · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 234“I don’t find myself funny… it came as a surprise to me that I didn’t really learn anything by watching myself.” In June 1969 BBC2 broadcast a documentary in which comedian and…
