THE FOURTH GOON
|F three Goons seem almost too many to be true, four must be quite unbelievable, yet away back at the beginning that’s how many there were-before Michael Bentine (his picture is below) set course for Australia. Michael's father was a scientist from Peru, and after going to Eton young Bentine
himself took a science degree. Then he turned to the stage, and took small parts in Shakespeare. When he found later that variety was more profitable than the legitimate stage, he concentrated on a peculiar brand of clowning of his own, which exploited the hitherto unsuspected comic possibilities of a broken chair back. It was no great effort after that to be even more peculiar, and partnership with Milligan,Sellers and Secombe was the most natural thing in the world,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 20
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132THE FOURTH GOON New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 937, 26 July 1957, Page 20
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