100 Comedy Classics - Best of Comedy

The British comedy scene was dominated during the Fifties by the anarchic splendour that was The Goon Show. Its stars were Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, although comic genius Milligan was the chief creator and principal writer. The BBC radio series, which first appeared in May 1951, combined ludicrous plotlines with surreal humour and was responsible for many words and phrases entering the English language, for example, ‘lurgi’ (or ‘lurgy’), to describe any serious disease of unspecified nature. There are too many comedy gems included on our compilation to mention them all, so sit back and let the comedians tell their own stories.