Editing The Goon Show (section)

===Firesign Theatre===
The [[NBC]] radio network broadcast the programme in the United States in the mid-1950s.<ref name="Firezine_Goons"/> In 1965, [[Peter Bergman (comedian)|Peter Bergman]] met and befriended Milligan during the time he worked in the UK on the [[BBC]] television programme ''[[Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life]]''.<ref name="Firezine_Goons"/> He also saw [[the Beatles]] in concert, which gave him the inspiration to form a four-man comedy group.<ref name="Stereo_review">{{cite AV media notes |title=Putting It Simply, There's Never Been Anything Like The Firesign Theatre Before or Since |year=1993 |url=http://www.firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln |access-date=28 November 2017 |first=Steve |last=Simels |type=liner notes |publisher=Laugh.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215000610/http://www.firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?item=sfi-ln |archive-date=15 December 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> When he returned to the US the next year to host the radio show ''Radio Free Oz'' on [[KPFK]]-FM in Los Angeles, he teamed with [[Philip Proctor]], [[Phil Austin]], and [[David Ossman]] to form [[the Firesign Theatre]]. Proctor, Austin, and Ossman were big fans of the ''Monitor'' broadcasts of the ''Goon Show''. According to Ossman:<ref name="Firezine_Goons"/><ref name="MilliganHisPartInOurLives"/>

{{Blockquote|We all listened to ''The Goon Show'', Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, at various times in our lives. We heard a lot of those shows. They impressed us when we started doing radio ourselves, because they sustained characters in a really [[surreal humour|surreal]] and weird kind of situation for a long period of time. They were doing that show for 10 years, all the way through the 1950s. So we were just listening to them at the end. It was that madness and the ability to go anywhere and do anything and yet sustain those funny characters. So when we first did written radio, where we would sit down and write half hour skits and do them once a week, which we did in the fall of 1967, we did things that were imitative of ''The Goon Show'' and learned a lot of voices from them and such.}}