How dare you! - there is nothing at all that could come close to the Sainted Goons! You dirty rotted swine you, you can't do that to me, I am an East Finchley type boy scout!!! The only record (of about 300) that my husband and I had in common when we married, was the Ying Tong Song..... Does that say anything about us?

Monty Python is very nearly equal to the Goons, there is nothing cheap or vulgar about it, well, OK maybe rude, but you have to put it into perspective, the Goons were still dealing with a very post war audience, still rationed and with very obvious wounds of war, either visible, invisible, physical, mental or material. They opened up a half an hour when you could totally disregard what had happened that day, when nonsense was allowed free reign, and the strict regime of scrimp and save could be abandoned for a while. I grew up with things like the Not the 9 'o' clock News, and The Young Ones, now they were cheap and vulgar! Something like that 25/45 years ago would have been totally incomprehensible. The Goons never used obscene language, the Pythons used only what would be termed the mildest of swear words now, until the films extended their vocabulary. And don't forget, the Goons themselves are fans of Monty Python, even to the extent of Spike appearing in Life of Brian.

OK, getting off high horse now, don't forget, we are all individuals!

LTS