These days, we indeed NEED To laugh (recalling classic British comedy)

'ello, mates!

In this insane day and age, LAUGHTER, indeed, can be the BEST medicine of all.

I've long found great humour in British comedy, so different, in so many ways, than here in the States.

The humour can be, at once, bawdy, bold, corny, and hysterically funny.

I've read much of the "stand up comics" who were once staples in the British musical hall circuits of many decades ago.

The revolutionary, never-to-be-forgotten "Goon Show", broadcast over the BBC in the 1950's (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, and Michael Bentine) took British comedy to new, unchartered heights with their insane and totally off-the-wall humour, gauranteed to have you rolling in the aisles.

The "Goon Show" was even popular with members of the Royal Family, and there were fan clubs across the globe.

More recently, BBC's "Britcoms" have continued to provide us with "traditional" British humour ("Keeping Up Appearances' and "On The Buses" are my especial favourites.

"Old school" Brit comedy, IMHO, will keep you in stitches and always greatly entertained....and, mates, we surely need THAT today!

":Live long and prosper"

 

Talk about a man THOROUGHLY engrossed in TOTALLY INSANE Brit comedy.......

Spike Milligan - Wikipedia

 

Typical "Goon Show" humour, Spike Milligan-style:

"What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What?"

"Only TEN watts? Not very bright, are we, mate!"

"Live long and prosper"

 

Blimey, mates!

Is this all the most ripping sport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yes, the great actor who gave us years of the inept bumbling of the hapless, ever-frustrated, Inspector Clouseau began his long road to super-stardom with "The Goon Show"......

Peter Sellers - Wikipedia

 

Those crazy "Goons"........

The Goon Show - Wikipedia

 

"Running jokes" (proper comics, aren't they?)

The Goon Show running jokes - Wikipedia

 

Cannot forget the Birmingham Comedy Festival now, can we?

Birmingham Comedy Festival - Wikipedia

 

Raised with british humour/series(bbc/anglia)









Ect ect ect

Mzzls

 

Ahhh, the great Monty Python!

I've read that Monty Python's Flying Circus was largely influenced by "The Goon Show" (Sellers/Milligan/Secombe) of the 1950's.

And, of course, the ALWAYS highly-insane Benny Hill, and his equally off-the-wall mates!

Proper comics, aren't they

"Live long and prosper"

 

My favourite was the episode where Trigger told Del-Boy that he still had the same broom that he was given when he started his job as a road sweeper. He added that the head had been replaced 9 times and the handle 4.

Along with Roy Clarke, John Sullivan became the face of British comedy scriptwriting.

 

.....you would indeed be surprised to see just how many "Yanks" can not "get" Brit humour.

"Brit humour" is, indeed, a totally different "species of animal" from comedy here in the Stares.

I've long found Brit humour to be hilariously funny; it has a "wonky" style all of its own, and never fails to entertain.

My all-time favourite "Britcoms" have always been "Keeping Up Appearances" and "On The Buses".

I've been a big fan of Brit humour ever since I started reading about the old "Goon Show" (Sellers/Milligan/Secombe), back in the 1980's.

Here, indeed, was the fertile beginning of truly INSANE Brit humour......several members of the Royal Family, back then, were also loyal followers of "the Goons".......

"Live long and prosper"