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  1. "Thanks for that Brian"

    "Thanks for that Brian" Well-Known Member

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    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    5 or 6.

    5 because in general the less people there are, the less chance I can get annoyed by someone.

    6 because Rihanna.
     
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    Today is today tomorrow is tomorrow. Tomorrow today will be yesterday. Yesterday was today when it was today. Tomorrow never comes it's always today until it becomes yesterday. The day before yesterday used to be tomorrow until it became today.

    So what do we learn from all of this? That the day is always changing but Trump remains an idiot today tomorrow and yesterday.
     
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  6. Alfie Conn

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    Many years ago I worked with Bill Oddie , leading up to working with him I was so excited and when it came to the week I have to say that BO was the biggest pile of ****e that I have ever met, nothing was good enough for him, he moaned from start to finish of the training film we were making and when he wasn't bitching off to the staff he was slating all the people he had worked with. By the end of the event I decided to ask him about the goodies and if the would ever get back to recording again....... the abuse it got was spectacular to say the least , he said how much he hated the team , the crew and everything about the show
     
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    I'd heard that of Bill Oddie from someone else.

    Most comedians are supposed to be complete gits. Oddly, when I met Frankie Boyle he was a complete sweetie and genuinely very charming.
     
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    One thing that does have to be said is that a large number of comedians have various mental health problems

    Spike Milligan had bipolar disorder
    John Cleese had serious anger issues
    Bill Oddie has depression and bipolar disorder
    Tony Hancock had depression
    Robin Williams had depression and bipolar disorder
    Kenneth Williams had depression
    Stephen Fry has bipolar disorder
    Richard Pryor had depression

    However, from personal experience, Ricky Gervais and Stewart Lee are merely complete twats
     
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    Genius often comes at the edge of madness and there are some truly great comedians in that list...lots of substance abuse too.

    My old mum's bi-polar...and not funny at all. So it doesn't always follow.
     
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    Why am I only finding out about these now?










     
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  11. Alfie Conn

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    A friend worked for the electricity board in the 70s and had a request from Spike Milligan to install storage heaters, they sent out a pre survey form for the home owners to fill in and Spikes came back with HOW THE F*CK AM I MEANT TO KNOW THE ANSWERS scrawled across the form signed by him
    He has it framed in his home to this day
    When he did visit he was met by SM dressed in a safari suit and pith helmet and was piped into the house with a trumpet but after that SM said he was going out and left him alone in the house
     
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    Kitten Kong, Ecky Thump. All good stuff for 70s kids.
    However their crowning glory IMHO was the epic fight between
    them and the BBC childrens TV mob in that Christmas special.
     
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    Kitten Kong...which had its master tape wiped

    The version that's been seen on subsequent home releases (and something like four repeats in the best part of fifty years) is from a second version of the episode recorded for the Montreux festival
     
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    I adored Spike Milligan. Puckoon, his war memoirs and letters to Harry Seagoon being particular favourites.

    Whatever passes for my sense of humour is built upon Milligan's...

    "See, I told you I was ill..."
     
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    Yes that will be the Goodies rule Ok - an extended Christmas special and yes the scenes with the puppets were fantastic, the previous special the Goodies and the Beanstalk was also quite memorable.
     
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    Like wise
    The story of him sending the scout leader round to Peter Sellers house who said to Sellers " I am a genius Mr Milligan sent me " thus bluebottle was born
     
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    My parents used to go to the recordings of the Goons show and not together they were not an 'item' at the time but both loved the shows, I have listened to a few on Radio 4 extra, but like many things my father believes that a lot of the really funny stuff has been cut out as it would not be politically correct now.
     
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  18. Alfie Conn

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    You can get the original recordings on CD or vynyl, I picked up 6 of the lps at a car boot 3yrs ago for a £10 not all of them are PC by today's standards
     
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    More good news!
     
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    Puckoon "Caw" said the crow, "Balls" said Milligan and his war memoirs, all absolute classic reading, loads of comedy but quite a bit of pathos as well.

    Spike Milligna, the well known typing error.
     
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