Morning "paw". The "Goon Show" was custom tailored for your sense of humour. It's influence on me has been incalculable. It may be the reason that I find YOUR approach screamingly funny while other more stable folk shake their collective heads at your ramblings and mutter "grow up, Possum-Boy!"
Cletus and Buford are very similar to Goonshow characters "Eccles, and Bluebottle". They are of course, alter-egos to their authors, and just like my moronic in-bred, ice-fishin' rural Canadjun' (half) brothers Reg, Reg, and Reg, allow their creator to get away with murder.
Only fly in the ointment is the British slang, and impenetrable dialects. It takes a while to really get a handle on what they're saying, 'cause the dialogue is rapid fire to say the least.
Also the Goonshow would be seen as overtly offensive and racist in North America today. The characters Mr. Thing (first name: Sinjiz) and Mr. Lalcacca, are Hindus, who no matter what parts they play in each show, always have time to make curry, and discuss flaming funeral pyres. Ray Ellington (cousin of the Duke) the bandleader often takes part in the skits as "Big Chief Ellinga" a cannibal, who trumpets (in a metaphorical sense) "Ballaballaboomboom, me want eat you up!" Other characters include: an overtly Jewish cockney theatrical agent who constantly drools over "all that lovely money", Colonel Bloodnock; a wicked portrait of an elderly demented British army officer, Neddy Seagoon, the whitest, dumbest wasp on the face of the earth. Moriarty and Gritpipe-Thynne, two scheming and slimey homosexuals, Flower, and Dew: two VERY OUT gay boys, who upon seeing a catholic priest waving one of those smoking incense burner things, douse him with water because,"I thay there, you're handbag's on fire!".....And these are the LEAST offensive characters! Funny thing is that apparently in it's hey-day (the fifties) minorities loved it, and would tune in often just to hear Sellers, Milligan, or Secombe, send them up!