Dogun
Goon was arrested by Chinese inspector John McCabe of Boston on August 16, 1917, and charged with being unlawfully in the United States in violation of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Historical notes on some of Maine's Chinese hand-laundries and laundrymen
The Holy Grail for
Goon fans, however, is the harder-to find-than-hen's-teeth televised recording the trio reunited to make in 1972.
Goon... but not forgotten; FEATURE They influenced Monty Python , Eddie Izzard called them the godfathers of modern comedy and Prince Charles even name checked them in his investiture speech. Now, 55 years on from their last studio recording, Nathan Bevan examines the legacy of The Goons
The
Goon Show was the best fun I ever had." When Andy said he feared people would think he was capitalising on his father's name Sir Harry retorted: "Other fathers have companies they can pass on to their sons.
Gooning around with Dad; When Andy Secombe was young, he had no idea that his father Harry was a household name as one of the Goons. And that's because the Secombes worked hard at having a loving, close and normal family life. But what was it like for other Goon children? Andy tells Abbie Wightwick why he just had to find out
Of the
Goon Show's continued popularity on BBC Radio 7 she said: "I am very lucky to have that connection with my father.
GOON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
It was the post-war
Goon Show which made Milligan famous.
Goodbye Spike, comic genius of his generation; Tributes pour in as the last of the Goons dies at home
Robin Williams describes The
Goon Show as "pure madness".
THE LAST GOON GONE; Spike, the founder of modern comedy, dies at 83
The
Goon world was filled with eccentric characters boasting names like Ned Seagoon, Eccles, Bluebottle, Bloodnok, the Hon Hercules Grytpype-Thynne, Minnie Bannister, Henry Crun and Moriarty.
Goon, but not forgotten; NOSTALGIA The mad-cap antics of The Goons kept the whole of Britain laughing. Marion McMullen looks at the legacy of the classic radio comedy series which ended 55 years ago
The homegrown pic's performance was helped by a strategy from distrib Alliance Films that launched "
Goon" simultaneously both in its original English-language version and a dubbed French translation for the Quebec market.
'Goon' squad tops Canada B.O
That's the biggest problem with the film and it casts one heck of a big shadow over
Goon's strong suits.
Sport film inflicts GBH on credibility
This month, the astute reader searching for a perfect example of books in this category need look no further than Eric Powell's The
Goon vol.
The Goon vol. 1
The prince has been a fan of the
Goon Show's surreal radio sketches performed by Sir Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, since he was a schoolboy and revealed how he could mimic all the characters the trio created.
Cruel humour's no joke for prince
ARDEC engineer Eric
Goon designed the new concepts, the first of which is a coupling, or pivoting, used to connect grenade ammunition cartridge loops.
Picatinny engineer awarded two patents for new grenade ammunition designs
Another compares it to the
Goon Show - the
goons in this case being the hierarchy at BBC Wales for commissioning past and present series.
Letter: Viewpoints - High Hopes' popularity is a sad sign
First to meet us is
Goon Andrei, surrounded by a great milling crowd of
Goons.
Selections from the Aeneid
Goon is a giant: standing six foot nine inches and weighing in at four hundred pounds, he is a monster whose path you wouldn't want to cross, in or out of the ring.
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