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It always astonishes me that Crispin Kula Shaker is the son of a Boulting Brother #totp

The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar: The Dublin Gang – Infinity War Highlights from Looks Unfamiliar featuring Mitch Benn on Channel 4’s pre-launch trailers, Ricardo Autobahn on Roadmaker, Donna Rees on The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer, Paul Whitelaw on Th…

Also featuring @bobfischer.bsky.social and @georgyjamieson.bsky.social on the Fireworks Code plus appearances from @stillanygood.bsky.social, @goonpod.bsky.social, @herring1967.bsky.social and @iammilliam.bsky.social.

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Would I like this?

Recorded OTD 60 years ago: The Whistling Spy Enigma

Harry Secombe roped his his erstwhile Goon Show colleagues to perform a new version of the classic Series 5 show for his ATV show 'Secombe & Friends'. In the end only a short section was televised.

My day already

“Signed photo of Boris Johnson MP with black wooden frame. Personally owned by Jim Davidson OBE himself! Size: 26.5 x 30 x 1.2cm”

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I'm wearing a wine-coloured sweater casually knotted around my neck. A duck-egg blue polo shirt. Tobacco chinos and eggplant deck shoes.

Aiming for that 'just stepped off a yacht' look.

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I wonder why Alfie Noakes was never a bigger star?

Willie Rushton, Bernice Jacobs, Barry Humphries and Spike Milligan relaxing after a performance of Treasure Island in 1968

I once gave Brian Dennehy directions right outside a branch of Rumbelows

One of the reasons I wanted to move to the UK when I was a kid is I had been raised on a diet of British comedies.

I wanted Richard Wattis as a neighbour basically.

Waiting in for deliveries. Tempted to send the dog out dressed as me so all the deliveries will come.

This Is Your Life: Spike Milligan Podcast Episode · Goon Pod · 17 December 2025 · 1h 32m

THIS IS YOUR LIFE SPIKE MILLIGAN

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Me within 20 seconds of visiting Twitter

His mother is pure evil

I liked the episode where Timothy knocks a bowl of soup in his lap and shouts “twatty bollocks!” but his dad says nothing because he’s just nipped to the loo

Actor Dustin Hoffman had to spend a full three hours in makeup while filming Tootsie (1982)

Hardest working man in the world. Manages to fight a war in the Middle East AND put in a shift at the chocolate factory

Wallace Greenslade lives and the Pythons get him to say "lemon curry?" instead of Richard Baker

I know right

"It needs a doily"

Notice it omits mention of Cribbins and Lodge

Newspaper ad for Two Way Stretch, March 1960

hope he can’t stop scratching it and is forced to wear a dog cone

Just One More Thing: Lovely But Lethal Notes and screenshots for  Lovely But Lethal:  Originally broadcast on Sep 23, 1973, starring Vera Miles as beauty industry titan Viveca Sco...

This week's retro episode of Just One More Thing is Lovely But Lethal, starring Vera Miles, Martin Sheen, Vincent Price and a host of great character actors, involving a cosmetics-industry killing. We learned a LOT about lesbian-coded characters in TV and film with this one!

Loads of placeholder gags which never got a second draft

Best bit of the film.