It’s the booming fifties, and Britain is in the clutches of Goon
mania as men, women and children across the country scramble to get
their ear to a wireless for another instalment of The Goon Show.
While Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers get down to the serious business
of becoming overnight celebrities, fellow Goon and chief writer SPIKE
finds himself pushing the boundaries of comedy, and testing the
patience of the BBC.
Flanked by his fellow Goons and bolstered by the efforts of
irrepressible sound assistant Janet, SPIKE takes a flourishing
nosedive off the cliffs of respectability, and mashes up his haunted
past to create the comedy of the future. His war with Hitler may be
over, but his war with Auntie Beeb - and ultimately himself - has just
begun.
Will SPIKE’s dogged obsession with finding the funny elevate The
Goons to soaring new heights, or will the whole thing come crashing
down with the stroke of a potato peeler?
Extracts from The Goons used with the kind permission of Spike
Milligan Productions.
