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The Last Goon Show of All & At Last the Goon Show [Audio Download]

by The Goons (Author, Narrator)
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  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 2 hours and 6 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 30 Mar 2005
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQBDOQ
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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The Last Goon Show of All
The historic reunion of radio's greatest comedy team to celebrate 50 years of the BBC was their farewell performance and proved so momentous it was broadcast complete with the pre-show warm-up! In what became almost a Royal Command Performance, Neddie Seagoon, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, the famous Eccles, and Bluebottle were among the much-loved characters who found their voices again at the Camden Theatre on Sunday, 30 April 1972.

At Last the Go On Show
This hilarious and fascinating Goons 40th Anniversary documentary is packed with classic clips, inside information, and never-before-heard rehearsal recordings (including rare glimpses behind the scenes at The Last Goon Show Of All). In this extended version of the original broadcast, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine, and other members of the team tell the story of The Goons, from their first meetings to The Last Goon Show of All.

© and (P)1997 BBC Worldwide Ltd

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Little Jim 31 Mar 2010
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OK, so this is not the funniest of the Goon Shows, but it is an important event. It really was the last Goons Show, as sadly Peter Sellers died so young, and it celebrated the 50th annivesary of the BBC. It is amazing that something so anarchic as the Goons was used for this important national milestone. The main part of the CD, the typical Goon Show is, however, very funny even if the ending has more similarities to Spike Milligan's 1970's TV series than to the radio Goon Shows. It does, as it should, have all the main characters, all in fine voice. Some of the preliminaries are not so interesting, but some are great like Spike's version of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". Once the show really starts it is great fun through to the end. This CD is the most complete version of the show available and it is coupled with "At Last it's the Go On Show" which is a fascinating documentary on the Goons. Highlights of this are the description of the birth of Bluebottle's voice and the wonderful exerpt - "What Time is It Eccles" which alone would be worth the price of the CD.
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9 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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As part of the BBC's 50th anniversary celebrations, the Goons got together one last time in 1972. There were some nice moments - Neddie Seagoon standing in for HM Queen in a floral cretonne frock - but the whole was self-indulgent and shapeless, and the easy ensemble playing of the great Goon Shows couldn't be recaptured after so long a gap.

At Last the Go On Show is a harmless documentary, but not something to be listened to again and again.

This CD is for completists only. If you're new to the Goons, go for something from the fifties, like "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas" or "Ned's Atomic Dustbin".
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
STRAAAIINNN. 13 Jun 2004
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Both audience and performers are straining here. The audience really WANTS to find this show funny, but often the laughter sounds sycophantic and forced. In 1972 it was 12 years since the last regular Goon Show; Secombe was still appearing on variety TV shows and Christian broadcasts; Sellers' career was in the doldrums and Milligan didn't really want do write or perform this at all.

And it shows. The show itself is a mess, no structure - but then so did a lot of the later regular shows in the late 1950s. The frantic pace and enjoyment of those regular broadcasts is missing from this though: so is the world in which the original shows were broadcast. The social revolution between 1960 and 1972, plus the fact that Britain stopped even pretending to be a world power, robbed the Goons of the original context of their appeal. So we're left with crude jokes about trusses and knee-tremblers and inconsequential rubbish like "I have on good authority that my name is Clapham Common." And so called "daring" jokes at the Royal Family, some of whom happened to be in the audience.

Go find the originals. At their best, they were some of the most brilliant comedy ever produced.

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