When The Goon Show went on the air in 1951, BBC executives were reluctant to fund it, and they hated the name. So they called it Crazy People. It was an apt description for a zany radio comedy with a ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Replicating well-known people on stage is fraught with difficulties. And when those people are notorious for hiding behind a small army ...

So this Englishman, Welshman and nominal Irishman walk into a pub… The pub’s the Grafton Arms in London’s Victoria, and there they create the Goon show (or ‘Go On Show’ as some fusty Beeb mandarin ...