[78-L] goon show Q. for British listers

[Stephen Davies]

How did the Goon canon get named?  Spike would often rearrange the name for
each announcement during the program, sometimes going off in a different
direction.  It's too bad that writing that show stressed him out to the
max.
Repetition can make comedy writing easier, so he also wrote:
Have a coolie.
Have a noodle.
&
Have a gorilla.
No, here, try one of my monkeys.  They're milder.

Some of his catchphrases made it to 78rpm, but I've only got them on 45rpm.
Milligan wrote some very funny books, and published a lot of
inconsequential junk.  However, I remember reading a collection of his
letters in the 1970's in which he writes to a shampoo company complaining
about the excess packaging used to present their product on the shelf.  (Do
you remember when every shampoo bottle stood in it's own display box on the
shelf?)  That very early green concept impressed me a great deal.

- Stephen D
Calgary

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