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Is he Stilgoeing?

:| Richard Stillgo where is he? also anyone heard of Jake Manglewurtzel?

A couple of Goon records which I didn't include before, not through any major conspiracy, I just seemed to have forgotten to take a picture of them. As you do.

'The Best of the Goon Shows No 2':

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'The World of the Goons':

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'The Last Goon Show of All'

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I'll try and gather my Hancock records together next week in the virtual comedy e-pen. They're by no means an exhaustive collection as there are rather a lot of them, but it's a representative trawl nevertheless.

And if we're discussing Comic Strip related records, here's another I forgot about, Cliff Richard and the Young Ones - 'Living Doll':

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So Hancock. My dad had a few Hancock records so I listened to the shows from an early age. Our boxer dog decided to eat them one day so after that I was very glad of my chunky tape recorder and the cassette collection I built up. We gave the dog away to a family in Basildon not long afterwards. That'll teach it. Anyway, I love Hancock and still record them off the fancy digital radio thing, but look at the loveliness of the vinyl. This guy http://www.railwaycuttings.co.uk/records.htm has pretty much the definitive Hancock ephemera site. I tend to draw the line at owning seven copies of the same record just because the label is a slightly different colour, so here is my fairly incomplete Hancock collection:

This Is Hancock:

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Pieces of Hancock:

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Unique Hancock:

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The Best of Tony Hancock:

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The World of Tony Hancock:

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From the 1980 reissue series all with Michael Lye's illustrations as covers. Some are inspired, others are just terrifying! Sid's Mystery Tours and The Poetry Society:

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The Scandal Magazine and The Last of The McHancocks:

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Hancock's War and The Christmas Club:

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The Americans Hit Town and The Unexploded Bomb:

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Quote: Agnes Guano @ April 8 2011, 2:48 PM BST

He also crops up on here, from the original club before all the TV shows made them household names, The Comic Strip:

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For that political period in time I think that sticker is a little insensitive.

Now when you get into Hancock web pages and appreciation societies, what a can of worms you open there !

;)

Quote: Oldrocker @ April 18 2011, 11:43 PM BST

Now when you get into Hancock web pages and appreciation societies, what a can of worms you open there !

;)

They may be little pricks to you, but that's life or death to some poor bugger.
Eh?

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ April 18 2011, 11:58 PM BST

They may be little pricks to you, but that's life or death to some poor bugger.
Eh?

'That is neither here nor there.'

Ah, the much sought after sweary Hancock tapes!

Think these may just qualify as Python-related.

Eric Idle and Neil Innes - 'The Rutland Weekend Songbook':

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'The Secret Policeman's Ball':

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'The Secret Policeman's Other Ball':

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'Fawlty Towers':

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'Fawlty Towers - Second Sitting':

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'Fawlty Towers - At Your Service':

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And because I mentioned it in the sitcom forum, the Yes Minister album:

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Quote: Badge @ April 10 2011, 12:18 AM BST

Is he Stilgoeing?

He's got a son called Joe who appears to be carrying on the family business. He was on a recent Now Show.

:) I wondered if it was a relative, always listen to that.

Random stuff of a vaguely 80s nature...

Spitting Image - 'Santa Claus is on the Dole':

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Spitting Image - 'Spit in Your Ear':

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Harry Enfield - 'Loadsamoney (Doin' up the House)':

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Ben Elton - 'Motorvation':

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Ben Elton - 'Motormouth':

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Lenny Henry - 'Stand Up... Get Down':

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Kenny Everett - 'The Greatest Adventure yet from Captain Kremmen':

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A bit more Kenny Everett - 'Snot Rap':

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and some Tracey Ullman - 'You Broke My Heart in 17 Places':

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'Move Over Darling':

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There was quite a mania for bad 80s rap comedy wasn't there?

There was quite a mania for bad 80s rap comedy wasn't there?

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