Neddie Seagoon
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Neddie Pugh (pronounced "Pew" spelt "Pug" [1]) Seagoon was a character in the British radio comedy, The Goon Show. Voiced by Harry Secombe, Seagoon was the main character, or at least the stories revolved around him. Because of this, Secombe voiced very few other characters.
Often chronically poor or part of the government (such as the strolling Prime Minister of no fixed address or some other civil servant), Seagoon usually falls prey to the schemes of Hercules Grytpype-Thynne (voiced by Peter Sellers) and Count Jim Moriarty (voiced by Spike Milligan). Neddie's appearance was based on Secombe's own likeness, exaggerated for comic effect. Thus, he was often described as very short, round and immensely fat. In one episode, John Snagge described him as "a little ball of fat". Once, upon visiting Henry Crun's house, Crun remarks "Did you know they've sent a satellite to photograph the other side of you?". In the episode Nineteen Eighty Five (a parody of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell) he says: "Over the weeks that they tortured me my weight dropped by ten stone, I went down to a mere twenty stone..."
At one point he appears to have been Major Bloodnok's batman.
Neddie would often step out of the frame of the story. He greeted the audience, referring to them as "folks". He would also narrate some of the story and usually converse with Wallace Greenslade (The Goon Show's announcer); one such was as follows:
Seagoon: Greenslade, tell the listeners what we have in store for them toni...
Greenslade: (Interjecting) Rubbish.
Seagoon: That's right. Yes, it's rubbish!
[edit] References
- ^ Milligan, Spike. Affair of the Lone Banana.
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| The Goons |
| Michael Bentine • Spike Milligan • Harry Secombe • Peter Sellers |
| Other Contributors |
| Ray Ellington • Max Geldray • Wallace Greenslade • Larry Stephens • Wally Stott • Eric Sykes • Andrew Timothy |
| Radio & TV Series |
| The Goon Show • The Telegoons |
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| Let's Go Crazy • Penny Points to Paradise • Down Among the Z Men • The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn • The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film |
| Characters |
| Cast members and their Characters • Major Bloodnok • Bluebottle • Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister • Eccles • Hercules Grytpype-Thynne • Count Jim Moriarty • Neddie Seagoon |
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