The Goon Show

The Goon Show var et britisk humorprogram på radio som ble sendt på BBC fra 1951 til 1960. Hovedforfatter og programleder var Spike Milligan. Blant andre medvirkende var Peter Sellers og Harry Secombe.

Programmet representerte en absurd og surrealistisk humor som gjelder som en av impulsene til Monty Python.

Litteratur

• Barnes, Peter (August 2002), «'An Uncooked Army Boot': Spike Milligan 1918-2002», New Theatre Quarterly 18 (Part 3. Intq 71): 205–210, http://books.google.com/books?id=78w532FjD0MC&pg=PA205&dq=spike+milligan#v=onepage&q=spike%20milligan&f=false, besøkt 23 August 2010 
• Farnes, Norma (ed.), red. (6. november 1997). The Goons: The Story. London: Virgin Publishing. ISBN 1-85227-679-7. CS1-vedlikehold: Ekstra tekst: redaktørliste (link) – includes chapters from Milligan, Secombe & Sykes.
• Wilmut, Roger (1976). The Goon Show Companion - A History and Goonography. London: Robson Books. ISBN 0-903895-64-1.  – remains the definitive book on the series
• Rose, Elizabeth, red. (2000), The Book of the Goons, London: Robson Books, , http://books.google.com/books?id=9zQjs_udTa4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=spike+milligan#v=onepage&q&f=false, besøkt 23 August 2010  (First published by Robson Books, 1974).
• McCann, Graham (2006). Spike & Co. London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-0-340-89808-6.  – A singly useful resource, comprising a comprehensive biography of the script co-operative 'Associated London Scripts' set up by Milligan, Sykes, Galton and Simpson in the 1950s. From these offices originated The Goon Show, Sykes, Till Death Do Us Part, Hancock, Steptoe and Son and other ground-breaking comedy shows.

Eksterne lenker

• thegoonshow.net Arkivert 26. november 2020 hos Wayback Machine.
• The Goon Show on BBC7 – spiller shows online ukentlig
• Goon Show Preservation Society Arkivert 24. mai 2020 hos Wayback Machine. – United Kingdom
• Goon Show Preservation Society – United States
• The Goon Show hos BBC