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The Goon Show app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 7008 ratings )
Music Entertainment
Developer: Marisa Singhnarinaath
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.8, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 24 Apr 2013
App size: 19.94 Mb

The Goon Show British Radio Comedy app give you access to 154 episodes of the Goon Show radio program plus 75 episodes from Hancock Half Hour radio show.

The Goon Show,a British radio comedy program, was originally produced and broadcast 1951 to 1960.

The shows chief creator and main writer was Spike Milligan. The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humor, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. Many elements of the show satirized contemporary life in Britain, parodying aspects of show business, commerce, industry, art, politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class structure, literature and film.

Hancocks Half Hour is a radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams.

Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.
The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

We have incorporated new player into the app. The new player give you continuous playback option.

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