New ep, same vibes! We’re definitely, definitely experts on Dungeons & Dragons and Mr & Mrs, on #Audible / #AudiblePodcasts: www.audible.co.uk/pd...#Audible#AudiblePodcasts:#Podcasting #PodcastLife

Me waiting for news about a Peter Sellers blu ray box set supposedly out in November

Wowsa.

Brucie and Bernie cosplaying Steptoe & Son

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. Man About The House Early period Simpsons Steptoe & Son World of Pub One Foot In The Grave Blackadder 2 Mr Jolly Lives Next Door Python s2&3 Knowing Me Knowing You Toast of London

Casino Royale (1967) AKA “Have You Taken Leave Of Your Senses?!” A Bond film with fewer funny bits, we covered it on the show last year open.spotify.com/episode/2ea3...

Bloody Foster and bloody Allen

Spike pours himself a beer OTD 1958

Am absorbed watching tiny hermit crabs on the beach.

Peter Sellers’ last film attempted to knit Sax Rohmer’s problematic fictional villain into a plot straight out of The Goon Show and dropped a hell of a lot of stitches. We discussed it on Goon Pod with Jeremy & Paul @jlimb.bsky.social @paullitchfield.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

I hear it’s Talk Like A Pirate Day. When is Talk Like A Not Pirate Day?

Coming soon from @christhebarker.bsky.social and me...

Recently went to a garage sale and the lovely elderly gentleman hosting it had a full collection of Goon Show cassette tapes, a War of the Worlds tape narrated by Leonard Nimoy, and a mint condition original copy of "Crow" by Ted Hughes. Felt like Ali Baba finding the smugglers cave ✨

New episode out now!! We turn up the heat and run up & down the stairs, while we have a cosy old chat about THE TOWERING INFERNO. www.buzzsprout.com/113660/episo...

My current view

Off to the Maldives for a much-needed holiday! And the kids are now old enough that they get to stay home! It’s an arrangement that suits both us and them. Cannot wait.

THE NADGER PLAGUE With Sean Gaffney @toukochan.bsky.social pod.link/1569929507 Presumably the blue-pencil-clutching BBC censors were blissfully unaware of another meaning of the word 'nadgers' when they let this go out in 1956! We also discuss Liberace, Son of Fred, Telegoons and... Harry Potter?

Informed that it is the 65th birthday of It's A Square World today. Me and @tiltaraiza.bsky.social had a chat about the show a while back & speculated that it may have included the first ever Dr Who parody, with Clive Dunn as Hartnell's Doctor. Full show here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Aw no. Robert Redford. Loved so much of his work: The Sting, Three Days of the Condor, All Is Lost. A proper legend, gone.

A remix of the commission for the excellent @goonpod.bsky.social episode with @bobfischer.bsky.social on Jonathan Miller’s kinda controversial 1966 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland which features Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Bramble and Peter Cook and others. Listen at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

It’s also the 65th anniversary of the pilot episode of Michael Bentine’s It’s a Square World being shown on the BBC. It ran for four years, was positively unhinged, and – according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – gave rise to one of the finest of all BBC memos

Just amused myself by imagining a scenario in which Alan Bennett is demanding protection money. You can have that for free, Dead Ringers.

Okay, timeliness cleaner Everyone who sees this post, quote post 5 things that make you happy 1. Bunk Bed w/ Peter Curran & Patrick Marber 2. "Sure we will Mr Homer... sure we will!" (hacks) 3. Any 90s edition of ISIHAC 4. The Beatles dicking around 5. A new episode of a favourite podcast dropping

today’s grumpy opinion, apropos another conversation: Monty Python’s Flying Circus was just the Goon Show with Oxbridge degrees. Goodness Gracious Me was actually genuinely groundbreaking and, in its own way, a lot more subversive. Unfortunately, most comedy historians are very… white.

This flag stuff invokes this exchange from The Goon Show: "Which one of you two men is the British Ambassador?" "What? Does my Union Jack nightshirt mean nothing to you, sir?" "What's it doing around your ankles?" "It's been lowered for the night, I tell you. It's hell when it's at half-mast."

Spike Milligan electricity sketch from There's A Lot of It About. Not especially rib-tickling but interesting for the glimpse of sketch co-writer David Renwick on the far left of the screen in (I think) double denim www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiO4...

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A friend of mine recently lost her dad. She was putting flowers on his grave this morning when a dog came up and pissed on them. The owner was a few feet away watching and smirked. He said "It's only a bit of wee, love." My friend was upset but the place was empty and she felt intimidated. Prick.

Victor Maddern with a very young Dennis Waterman, 1963.

Thank you Alf.

This was a joy and Frank is in fine form. Thank you Tyler.

195 years ago today the MP for Liverpool William Huskisson was hit by Stephenson's Rocket as the Duke of Wellington looked on. The MP died of his injuries later that evening.

Sad news. I got to know Frank slightly in recent years through Dirk and he was such a gentle, thoughtful and talented man who clearly loved making people laugh for a living and brought so much happiness to many. RIP Ravelli x

On @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today at 14:30: DOCTOR IN TROUBLE (1970) Harry Secombe is a proper Sea Goon as he joins Leslie Phillips, Robert Morley & Simon Dee on board the Golden Horn in this last entry in the Doctor film series - we covered it on Goon Pod: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

OTD 1951: Peter Sellers marries Anne Howe

Saturday 27th June 1964. What you going for? I'm not going to lie, 'The Strain' intrigues me.

Recently I spent an enjoyable 90 minutes in the company of Chris & Rob from @stillanygood.bsky.social podcast talking about CROCODILE DUNDEE (1986) starring Mr World Of Leather himself, Paul Hogan. Fair, and indeed, dinkum. Take a listen, here: stillanygood.buzzsprout.com/113660/episo...

Avoiding the news and succumbing to the simple pleasures of nostalgia www.shutterstock.com/editorial/im...

It's The Nadger Plague next week folks!

Every time my wife goes shopping she comes home with a tin of hot dogs. The kids don’t eat hot dogs any more. I don’t like hot dogs. She’s a vegetarian. She’s just suggested I try and make a ‘hot dog casserole’.

Spike Milligan as Ronald Reagan, 1987.

Gotta love The Incredible Bullshitting Man

Nice to be mentioned in this:

That episode of Never The Twain in which Ringo was worried about going blind and Oliver had a solution

When Goon Pod met... John Lloyd The legendary comedy producer talks about when he had a crush on Anna Ford, the Spitting Image Golden Brain hunt, writing Dr Snuggles with Douglas Adams, problems with Blackadder, Not the Nine O'Clock News & working with Genesis! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

Theodore Gericault, 'Portrait of A Young Man Whose Friend Won't Accept That Carry On Admiral Is Non-Canonical'

FRIDAY!

"Ladies, I must bid you both good day. I have a rendezvous behind the catmeat factory with a woman named Lil who's seen more ceilings than Michelangelo."