[finnigan2]

"Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Seacombe. (One of Seacombe's identities was Sir Cedric Sea-Goon). I think Milligan played the deranged, apparently retarded character named Eccles, among a dozen or so others"

- I believe the regular characters for the Goon Show were:
Peter Sellers - Blue Bottle, Major Bloodnock, Grip Pipe Thin and Buddy
Spike Milligan - Eccles, Min and Moriarty
Harry Secombe - Neddy Secombe
I think the band was Ray Ellington and his Orchestra and there was some other guy who played a harmonica solo each week.
Milligan wrote most of the scripts and his influence on British comedy is clear, starting with Monty Python right through to Black Adder.
Unfortunately, Milligan had a nervous breakdown while under fire as a soldier during the war and he never was completely cured. He suffered throughout his life from fits of depression and fear.

[my right]

A man walks out of a bar, stumbling back and forth with a key in his
hand. A cop on the beat sees him and approaches, "Can I help you, sir?"

"Yesssh! Sssshomebody ssshtole my car!" the man replies.

The cop asks, "Where was your car the last time you saw it?"

"It wasssh at the end of thisssh key!" the man replies, logically, if a
bit too literally.

About this time the cop looks down to see that the man's "willie" is
hanging out of his fly for the entire world to see. He asks the man,
"Sir, are you aware that you are exposing yourself?"

The man looks down woefully and without missing a beat, moans "OHHH
GOD....they got my girlfriend, too!!!"