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Legendary British comedians are honored throughout London, England with these historic "Comic Heritage" markers.
#history of british comedy#uk#the goon show#peter sellers#benny hill#terry thomas#morecambe and wise#sid james#tony hancock
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The Fathers (The Goons), The Sons (The Pythons) & The Holy Spirits (The Six Idiots) of British Comedy. A Meme:
#the goon show#spike milligan#peter sellers#harry secombe#monty python#graham chapman#michael palin#john cleese#terry jones#eric idle#terry gilliam#the six idiots#themthere#ben willbond#simon farnaby#mathew baynton#martha howe douglas#larry rickard#jim howick
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Peter Sellers photograph redrawn with Grytpype
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Hey, this is to check that fellow trans fans of Watership Down are aware that most of the music for the 1978 cartoon film of the book was written by the awesome trans woman composer (and conductor and arranger and clarinettist and saxophonist) Angela Morley (1924-2009). :D
Some other cool things she did:-
under her previous name she wrote the theme tune and some of the incidental music for Hancock's Half Hour
and some of the music for The Goon Show, ditto
also ditto, she worked on some of Shirley Bassey's music including "As I Love You"
one of her first projects after transitioning was as an orchestrator for Jesus Christ Superstar
she worked on numerous US television soundtracks including Dynasty, Dallas, and Wonder Woman
she did a lot of (mostly uncredited) collaborations with John Williams, assisting him with film scores including Star Wars, E.T., and Home Alone
she won three Emmys for music arrangement/direction and was nominated eight times for composing; she was also the first trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (which she was twice)
That's not even all of it! Absolutely awesome woman. <3 Here's some more on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Morley
Anyway. She was superb. <3
#angela morley#trans history#lgbt history#fuck the classical canon#watership down#watership down 1978#the goon show#hancock's half hour#shirley bassey#jesus christ superstar#john williams#uk lgbt history month
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the extent to which it irks my soul that 'fear of turning into a bedsitting room' is so valid for a Milligan character. it sounds like it should be pants.
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Goon Show Memes from the last few years
#my friends made some too but i decided not to add those without permission#the goon show#delicious cringe memes ❤️
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#OTD in 2002 – Death of Spike Milligan, a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier, and actor.
‘All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.’ –Spike Milligan Spike Milligan’s early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. Spike Milligan, Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, was born in Ahmadnagar, India. He was…
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#BBC#Burma#England#Grafton Arms pub#Harry Secombe#India#Irish-British History#Michael Bentine#Monty Python&039;s Life of Brian#Myanmar#Peter Sellers#Terence Alan Patrick Seán ‘Spike’ Milligan#The Bedsitting Room#The Goon Show
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The Last Goon Show Of All
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the goon show -- the mysterious punch-up-the-conker [radio, 7 february 1957]
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Spike, Harry, and Peter from The Goon Show will boop you!!
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Piked men
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See it all on the new, insanit-ry stethoscope four-sided screen. Made in glorious, three-dimensional, hystericol, gorilla color. With the new, explodable multi-gringe sound pro-cess. You sawr them in Dustbins at Dawrn, you sawr The Son of Lassie's Owner [someone off-mic laughing/honking], you sawr They Died with their Boots Reversed. Then see them in The Lost Year and PROVE you're STILL an idiot when it comes to pictures!
#i can't tell if peter sellers is intentionally fucking up the american accent when he harshes the 'r's in words without r's like this#or if this is not intentional.#the goon show#wise fuzz
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still pondering the morality of buying a Secret Goon Show Club subscription and then blabbing about it on Tumblr
then I remember that tumblr is effectively also a secret club
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#OTD in 1918 – Birth of comedian, writer and actor, Spike Milligan, in India.
‘All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.’ –Spike Milligan Spike Milligan’s early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. Spike Milligan, Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, was born in Ahmadnagar, India. He was…
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#BBC#Burma#England#Grafton Arms pub#Harry Secombe#India#Irish-British History#Michael Bentine#Monty Python&039;s Life of Brian#Myanmar#Peter Sellers#Terence Alan Patrick Seán ‘Spike’ Milligan#The Bedsitting Room#The Goon Show
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this might be too niche for tumblr even, but.
i like to imagine that Spocks inner thoughts sound like Bluebottle from the Goon Show.
"i heard you call me my cap-i-tain. i heard my cap-i-tain call me. my rugg-ed cap-i-tain."
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