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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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 ...