More Goon Show Scripts

Milligan, Spike

ISBN 10: 0701804084 / ISBN 13: 9780701804084

Published by Lansdowne, Melbourne, 1973

About this Item

156pp, ills. Cover a little rubbed else good. Size: 4to.

Seller Inventory # 21083

Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Goon Show Scripts
• Publisher: Lansdowne, Melbourne
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701804084
• ISBN 13: 9780701804084
• Binding: Pictorial Boards
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humour

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Synopsis

Don't know about the Goon show? Well, you do know Peter Sellers, right? No? The funniestEnglishman alive till John Cleese. What? Don't know John Cleese? How about Monte Python? No? Move on, please. Spike Mulligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers cut their comedy teeth in the late sixties and early seventies on BBC radio in the wildest, weirdest and wackiest radio show ever broadcast in England. Spike wrote the outlines and these three madmen ran all over those lines producing more madcap comedy than most could take. A reading of these scripts gives only a taste of the sweet comedy genius of these three, but the scripts are classics nevertheless, and the dedication by HRH Prince of Wales, KGRN attests to the universality of the admiration for their work that they earned. Peter Sellers went on to another kind of comedy, but never lost the timing, the absurdist elements, that he acquired and honed in the Goon Show. This is a rare find. Own, laugh out loud and then treasure Volume 2. Get Volume 1 if you can.