When The Goon Show went on the air in 1951, BBC executives were reluctant to fund it, and they hated the name. So they called it Crazy People. It was an apt description for a zany radio comedy with a ...

Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers during a 1972 recording of The Last Goon Show of All A lost Goon Show sketch written by revered comedy duo Ray Galton and Alan Simpson will be performed ...

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 150,000 ...

With ever-more BBC radio archival treats now available to buy and enjoy again, self-identified Baby Boomer Hercules Grytpype-Thynne shares his personal memories and pays tribute to some of the biggest ...

Spike Milligan fans will be in their element this autumn as the first ever UK tour based on classic radio comedy The Goon Show tours the country. Opening at Salisbury Playhouse on 4th September before ...

Fast-paced portrait of Spike Milligan hurls us between the comic’s anarchic Goon Show sketches, cartoonish clashes with the BBC and the trauma of war Spike Milligan spent the 1940s fighting the war – ...

Martin Chilton is a former Culture Editor for The Telegraph. He was formerly Sports Editor and a columnist for the Evening Standard. Prior to this Martin has edited music books and magazines and ...

A tribute to the pioneers of modern absurdist comedy is set to take the stage at Penrith Playhouse next month. Penrith Players are set to bring three classic episodes of The Goon Show, first aired by ...

Spike Milligan, 83, the last surviving member and chief writer of the pioneering and abundantly absurdist British sketch comedy program "The Goon Show," whose cast included Peter Sellers, Harry ...

Relive the lunacy of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe as Seagoon, Eccles, Bluebottle, Major Bloodnok and Minnie become embroiled in the case of the heinous PHANTOM HEAD SHAVER (OF ...