Cheryle’s coming back for sure
Last Saturday night’s show was lots of fun, according to Cheryle who came to the show with her family. Here’s her review after the show… You can view more audience reviews on our YouTube channel. Tickets for this Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd (our 50th show) are still available, so…
Wishing you a safe walk backwards for Christmas
…and a Goon-type New Year from The Goon Show LIVE!
Last show for 2016… and onto 2017
Last night’s The Goon Show LIVE! was the last gig for 2016. It was wonderful to see so many people; new faces and quite a lot of regular stalkers – sorry, fans. Now for a bit of a break, and then see what 2017 brings. In the meantime, don’t forget…
Yulefest Blue Mountains rehearsals for The Goon Show LIVE!
In the lead-up to our dinner and show at Hotel Blue in Katoomba, here’s John ‘Peter Sellers’ Stretton in rehearsal.
It’s a funny scene from Spike Milligan’s ‘The Missing No. 10 Downing Street”.
#lovebluemountains #visitbluemountains #goon show
Henry & Min
Another delightful conversation between Henry Crun (played by Robin Queree) and Minnie Bannister (lovingly brough to life by John Stretton), those lovebirds…
MINNIE:
Henry! Henry Crun.
HENRY:
Yes, er… Minnie. Are you calling?…
Are you Walking Backwards for Christmas?
‘I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas’, with The Goon Show LIVE!
For the lyrics visit www.goonshow.com.au/walking-backwards-for-christmas/
Sapristi – the perfect Father’s Day Gift
Here’s a quick little something to to tickle your fancy; a snippet from that lovable couple, Min and Henry… Henry Crun: …Here, Minnie, hold my elephant gun. Minnie Bannister: Oh dear, I don’t know what you brought it for, you can’t shoot elephants in England you know! Henry Crun: Mnk? Why not? Minnie Bannister: They’re out of season….
Next show ‘On The Spike’ – 26th September 2015
The Perfect Father’s Day Gift! Sapristi! Here’s a quick little something to to tickle your fancy; a snippet from that lovable couple, Min and Henry… Henry Crun: …Here, Minnie, hold my elephant gun. Minnie Bannister: Oh dear, I don’t know what you brought it for, you can’t shoot elephants in England you know! Henry Crun: Mnk? Why not?…
Let the prosecuting council start off his spiel…
JUDGE SCHNORRER: Alrite – let the prosecuting council start off his spiel. ROPESOCK: M’lud – my client, Mrs. Prunella Dirt, claims that her husband, Nugent Dirt, did deceive her in that during their courting days, right up to their marriage night, he did in fact conceal his baldness from her…
Poor Nugent Dirt – indeed he was hairless. The Phantom Head Shaver had struck.
GREENSLADE: Poor Nugent Dirt – indeed he was hairless. The Phantom Head Shaver had struck. The day after, I, Wallace Greenslade, opened a little tobacco kiosk. It was that week that Nugent Dirt was taken to court by his wife. CAST: [Courtroom murmurs] FX: [Three loud gavel bangs] USHER: Silence…
Wedded bliss, Goon Show style
SECOMBE: Midnight o’clock and a half quarter – six and seven-eighths or thereabouts! Sleeping peacefully in the Hotel Fred are the delightful young newlyweds Nugent and Mrs. Dirt. MILLIGAN: Suddenly! From their room we hear… MRS DIRT: OoooooOO! Helppppppppppp! Helpppppppppp! Helpppppppppp! Oh! Look at his bonce! Ohhh!
The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton, continued…
SECOMBE: …Mr. Greenslade? GREENSLADE: Yes, sir? SECOMBE: Tell the eager masses what we have in store for them. GREENSLADE: Rubbish. SECOMBE: Thank you. Yes, it’s rubbish – but to make it more interesting we call it… SELLERS: ‘The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton’.
The opening of The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton…
GREENSLADE: This is the BBC Home Service. FX: [Penny in mug] GREENSLADE: Thank you. Tonight’s broadcast comes to you from an Arab Stench-Recuperating Centre in Stoke Poges. The play is considered unsuitable for people. SECOMBE: Mr. Greenslade refers, of course, to the highly esteemed Goon Show.
Another Goon Show Quote
GRYTPYPE: I am your first born, Ned, that’s why I’m older than you, heh hah hah ha. SCRATCHIT: Now I know you’re lying, I never had a first child. We started with the second. GRYTPYPE: That’s right. I’m your first, second child. You mus’n’t doubt your ability daddy.
