Subj : Re: Zany comedy
To   : Guilbert
From : Waldo Centini
Date : Thu Aug 11 2005 08:53 pm

From: Waldo Centini <waldoREMOVESPAMcentini@zonnet.nl>

Guilbert surprised us with

> The Goons - a historic BBC radio show from the 1950's. So way
> out and so far ahead of its time.
>
> Of course Spike Milligan was the driving force of the Goons and
> he went on to make a series of TV shows called the 'Q' series (Q5
> etc). The Pythons still say he beat them to it with their style of comedy
> (no punchlines, sketches flowing into other sketches etc).
>

I discovered the Goon Show *after* I discovered Monty Python. It taught me how 
thin the line is between inspiration and downright plagiarism....

--
Waldo

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