Dan and Aaron talk about one of Dan's favorite things, "The Goon Show"! It was a 1950s BBC radio comedy that changed comedy and molded the sensibilities of an entire generation.
This will probably be the longest episode by far because Dan is obsessed with this show, despite its occasional cringe-inducing dips into racism (which we discuss).
NOTES / DON'T @ US:
We couldn't find the really impressive Fred the Oyster sound effect, so instead we included the scene where the racetrack announcer talks about the food Neddie's digesting.
We recorded this right before the protests and discussions following the murder of George Floyd, so Dan made an ignorant comment about British racism. Since then the two us of have learned that while British racism lacks the bloody history America has, black people are definitely treated worse there than people of other backgrounds, so the comparison to cultural bickering between European countries was wrong. Sorry about that.
"The Goon Show" stars Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Peter Sellers, with Ray Ellington, Max Geldray, and Wallace Greenslade. It was written by Spike Milligan, Larry Stephens, Eric Sykes, Maurice Wiltshire, and John Antrobus. Copyright held by BBC, clips used for critical purposes under fair use.
