Manic Depression at its best and its Worst but Spike suffered and what a great Man. God Bless Him

Great to see this. I used my eyes... It worked!

First time I'd ever seen this. As an avid Goon fan thnx 4 uploading !!

Everyone trying not to crack up and fall over laughing! Wonderful!

With Valentine Dyall, Graham Stark, Kenneth Connor, Johnny Vyvyan, Max Geldray, singer Patti Lewis, and a cameo by screenwriter John Antrobus.

In many ways this reminds me of Ernie Kovacs. Genius. 👍

Made in 1956 and shown on ITV in May of that year (London region only).

Genius, thanks for posting....

Many thank 4 this great stuff. Ah Katie Boyle I remember her well, she was ubiquitous on Telly for years, especially on stuff like Eurovision Song Contest. But we never saw her like that in her unmentionables. If she'd done Eurovision like that it would have sent viewing figures sky high, not to mention viewers pulses and hear beats !!!

@stephenguppy7882

Жыл бұрын

She actually presented Eurovision 1974 live from Brighton wearing no undercrackers...because they showed under her chiffon dress. True ztory.

sheer genius

Delightfully mad

If you're a fan of the Beatles, you probably know who that director is!

so silly just love 'em tfs

When we were still figuring comedy out

one sequence reminded me of the coconuts for horses scene in holy grail. Maybe that's where they got it from.

@chriswatson7965

5 жыл бұрын

Using coconuts or similar as a comedic substitute for horses in stage plays has been around forever. The comedic novelty in Holy Grail was to do it in a movie and make it look like an unfinished placeholder for real horses, and all the meta-humour that is associated with that.

@animatiz

4 жыл бұрын

Dave Smith It wasn’t written into the script. They planned for horses but had no money, so they thought fuck it let’s use coconuts.

@barbarakirk3064

Жыл бұрын

And Jethro Tull used 'Chateau D'Isaster' (from the Count Of Monte Carlo sketch) as a title for some out-takes from Chateau D'Herouville on a box set later.

@irish66

Жыл бұрын

@@barbarakirk3064 Hmm. Interesting. Thank you.

my childhood is washing over me.....

irish66 - no doubt. Cleese was a huge devotee of Sellers and the Goon show. Transpersonals - not really. Comedy TV maybe. But Sellers and Milligan had been doing radio comedy for years. Its interesting to see this archival footage. Milligan did a longish running TV show later - Beachcomber. BBC managed to destroy all record of it afaik. Sad. Wait, some audio has been preserved by a fan, kzread.info/dash/bejne/i32MtKuRZ5OtcZM.html

Grace Kelly at the end. Such a tragic end.

Given its vintage just as original as Python.

How many episodes of A show called Fred Are left, and note this episode does not have the dustbin dance clip I think

@58biggles

3 жыл бұрын

That skit was from Q which came later

Quite the wardrobe budget, this show.

British humor....

@faithrogers8480

6 жыл бұрын

oh yes mate..

@kaymuldoon3575

6 жыл бұрын

Better than American humor (and I’m American, too).

When was this broadcast?

Ying Tong

When was this made? What chanel did it go out on?

I guess some stuff doesn't translate all that well over a long period of time.

how many episodes of a show called fred are there

@tonydavis6482

5 жыл бұрын

this, and short episode of Son Of fred….the rest were destroyed.

Anyone know who the aspiring young writer at 18:26 is?

@MatthewMcVeagh

7 жыл бұрын

John Antrobus, see 14:45.

No wonder these goons died every time they went on stage past Coventry. Not in the least bit funny.