Secombe & Friends - ARTV 1966 Goon Reunion - Fully Restored

Just plain bloody funny!

They're having so much fun

MAGIC! Wet eyes from manic Goon type laughter. Totally original despite being 'old' format. Goons RULED.

Hmm tell me more about Peter's 1980 destruction of thousands of his tapes and home movie footage.... this was lovely though! Thank you.

Sheer craziness, I was sick one Saturday night , my parents bought on old radio in . I could not have been more than 9 ,& laughed my head off.Eccles was always my favourite character!

'If I Had To Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You' - also a Caravan album title.

Pretty good work Ade ... thanks

A small taste, much appreciated, and how we wish there was more! Thanks

Radio Anarchy!!

I don't call him 'Harry Secombe'. I call him 'Harry ViewJizz'.

To think all this came from a question " Duu! Can we have our gun back?" Insanity of the best order!!

"BRILLIANT" many thanks for putting some genuine British comedy on where everyone can enjoy it . It's a pity that with all their wealth and power the overlords at the BBC couldn't do the same .Surely one slot late at night wouldn't hurt anyone ,and it would do wonders for their ratings as well as costing very little to put on some of our old classic comedies

I will never forget the Neddy "I am as sane as the next man" then Eccles " I am the next man" comic geniuses in action.

Ive got it!! See a doctor 😂😂

Surely the masters of comedy

Thank you very much for your efforts and for sharing this with us. I must add that I have to feel sorry for the 20 pathetic persons that felt compelled to give this a thumbs-down.

People who attended the original radio recordings describe an entire visual layer that you don't get from the audio alone. How the atmosphere crackles with energy. A comedy resting on the edge of going crazy; yet it's always tight as a drum and never slides into chaos. Peters amazing voices just blow me away; and here you see how much Ray played a live part of the performance. It's superb. The sound effects are split second perfect. and you see Harry suddenly discovering another layer in the joke. What an amazing find.

I have rescued enough 3rd generation material with a VHS dub in the chain; to appreciate how difficult this was. So thanks for the effort involved.

Is that Phil Seaman on drums?

The Goons were one of the reasons why a little girl, on being told how wonderful the the new-fangled thing called 'television' was, compared to radio, replied "No, the pictures are better."

Is it possible that the new ai upscaling and sharpening techniques could now be applied to this footage? Look at what Peter Jackson did with original wartime footage - it might be time to have another crack at it.

I could watch hours of that.

I had the extraordinary good fortune to be in the audience when this was filmed. Spike Milligan did a 5 minute warm up after which the rest of them could have read the phone directory and we would have died laughing. It was one of the best times of my life.

The visual performance, especially with Spike Harry & Peter was so crisp. Yet the radio audience never got that.

@Ade Gregg. I saw you mention somewhere that you had restored the video for the goons whistling spy enigma TV broadcast. I'd love to see it, if possible.

Great to actually see them performing. Got any more?

Gold

Thank you sir, in that order. Or if you prefer, Sir thank you. Other combinations work less and cannot be recommended: You thank sir, You sir thank . . . Myself and an mate of mine (and of several others, the swine) often used to greet each other, 'How's your old dad then?'

There’s great comedy, and there’s the legend that is the GOONS, what,what,what what...........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When Milligan just "becomes" Eccles. Spooky.

Immortal

Unbeatable comedy, absolutely classic 😂😂

Peter Sellers said 'The Goons' was the high point of his career. You can see why, the chaos of their comedic chemistry is just magical.

Simply brilliant.

Keep Ray Ellington white! 😂

Your got to go out, you got to go out, cough, cough, FORWARD 2021

WHY was this not entertaining.... 3 great charcters peforming should be a thing not to miss

better quality than i was expecting - Milligan was a genius, these 3 were hilarious together. The absurdity of the humour was unique, and only monty python has come near, but the goons are still way ahead. the ad libbing and mistakes make these shows even funniers, and they were having fun and enjoying each other's craziness.

Time less classic Goon funnery.

Many people think Monty Python was the birth of British alternative comedy, but the Pythons were inspired by the Goon Show.

Just brilliant.

I recently found The last Goon Show which was excellent for a few reasons, one of which I didn't expect and that was the visual enjoyment of a radio studio setting and the naturalness of how it flowed because it wasn't a film set.
The live audience enjoyed that side of it too.
There was an ad-lib to all their movements and when not performing, there was informal chats going on everywhere but no-one missed a que.
We even see the sound makers !
The Royals don't appear too royal or too remote.
Great atmosphere.
I felt as if I was there.

It's mentioned in the description that Spike didn't get his voices right in this clip but in the later 1972 Last Goon Show, he definitely does.

This clip has the same feel to it and again I enjoy the informal arrangements of where everyone stands and their untutored interactions with each other and again a live audience to enjoy it with.

How sad it was seen as visually uninteresting at the time. But how could they have seen the level of falsity and unreality that we see today which makes this type of setting so real and engaging.
I loved this clip and am not disappointed in spite of no voices really from Spike.

Will we see any more ?

Ps Out of curiosity, who owns or runs Peter Seller's Estate ?

You said you've got 17 minutes of this but there's only 9 minutes 55 seconds here. What happened to the other 8 minutes?

Priceless, from the days when people were able and allowed to make their own fun.

Absolutely brilliant.. Zany British humour at its best and it's simplest.. Good clean insanity... Without the Goons we most likely would not have had Monty Python and many other madcap comedies

As schoolboy Goons fans in days prior to tape recorders and instant access media days we would avidly listen to the Goon shows and regurgitate the jokes at school the next day.
Our poor teachers would have to put up with us talking in Goon voices ( especially Eccles) and twanging rulers to imitate the sound effects.
Raspberry sounds would generally be responded to with Bloodnock impersonations and “No more curried eggs for me” and the threat of detention if we didn’t “settle down”.
The humour would keep us going until another show came along the following week.

Pure nostalgic genius memories

Brilliant!!! Thank you for this. It made my day 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Excellent