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  • micheal bentine is at home with the bumblies, come in bumbly one, for us oldies

  • Hey, so where's Michael Bentine?

  • Guess what.......... YING TONG!!!!!

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  • why would you lison to this shit ying yinh toing 

  • ah the search for tomcornhole begins!

  • Perfect!!!!!!!!

    

  • I like the part where he says Ying Tong

  • I forgot about this song...Classic.

  • lol

  • 38 people have fallen in the water.

  • Micheal Bentine was probably the most sane of all the goons. His tv shows "It's a Square World" is shamefully forgotten. It's great, and it's very much like the early benny hill show's, very observational and innovative.

  • comedy at its purist and simplest

  • my "grandpop" does the "yingtongyingtonyingtong yong tong diddle i po" bit in the car when he drives me anywhere, couple weeks ago did it with my mate adam in the car now i make him do it every time, so hilarious, my mates at school know about it and now its like a private joke between us lads hahahahaha

  • I told my brother (I'm the oldest, 58) that this is what I want played at my funeral...He'll do it.

  • The trombone part just kills me! I like the bomb too!!!

  • The trombone part......dead funny.

  • my mum actually sung this 2 me

  • Spike Milligan was before his time, and he was still handsome in old age

  • True Actors ! True Comedians ! True Legends ! & True Gentlemen.

    Enough said...

  • the goons were a treatment for post traumatic stress disorder or "shell shock" but nobody had heard of it at the time just my opinion i could be wrong

  • i loved any thing these guys did together or sepperatelythree of the funniest people ever!!BUT WHY DO COMEDIANS DIE TRAGIC DEATHS?

  • @bazz15946 That's a good question.

  • @bazz15946 poor old spike was a manic depressive....he lived a tragic (but funny) life

  • @therealbannie all the great artists had a mental illness.... hopefully il be as great!

  • I first came across this song on an LP titled 'We Are Most Amused'.

  • Omg..does any1 else agree that british impersonator Alistair McGowan looks remarkably like Peter Sellers

  • This was played at my grandad's funeral lol, we made no apologies for his taste :P

  • My mother is a scary person, but I'll always be forever grateful to her for introducing me to this song! : P NYYYEEEECHUCKYCHUCKY

  • havent heard this since i was a kid and im now 40

  • YING TONG YING TONG YING TONG YING TONG YING TONG DA-DE-DUH-DEH!

  • CLASSIC

  • As a big Goon Show fan, I'm more than privileged to have a copy of the last ever Goon show on video, and many many copies of other Goon shows, I like nothing better than watching honest to goodness true comedy genius at work in Peter Spike and Harry, all to often the word "genius" is banded about to talk about comics, but in the Goons case, correct

  • Y'know there was a time when electronics where in its infancy... and thank goodness for the goons... crAZy and extreme maybe but they provided a huge barrel of laughs as we all tuned in for that special 1/2 hour production. God Bless them all.

    Thankyou The Goons for you fill me a sense of humour that this world no longer understands.

  • michael bentine was also a member of the goons and on occasions so was hattie jacques

  • what's ying tong?

  • if its good enough for The Prince Of Wales it's good enough for me

  • @sarabower1 YOU PATRIOT!

  • @paulwady yes

  • lyrics please

    ;)

  • Lol this song is rather funny

  • I think that you forgot to mention Michael Bentine!

  • im only 16 years of age and i love the goons

  • How about giving credit to Doreen Hume, the female voice. Doreen was the BBC''s premier coloratura soprano for 17 years and was good friends of the Goons. She now lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.

  • How about iving vredit to Doreen Hume, the female voice. Doreen was the BBC''s premier coloratura soprano for 17 years and was ggos friends of the Goons. She now lives in Northern Ontario, Canada.

  • @gromit1943 really? where? thats where I live?

  • me and my friends play a game, where we listen to this song and see who can go the longest without laughing out loud. I always loose.

  • Bloody amazing! I'm 26 and love the Goons!!!

  • Totally silly but a classic.

  • i thought this was hilarious when i was about 7/8yrs old, still makes me smile!

  • This was my father's favourite moment of The Goons - thankyou for posting.

  • @ tomcornhole -= you are obviously just another stupid, brain dead, drug -sucking piece of SHIT ! Now FUCK OFF YOU DOPEY LITTLE BASTARD !

  • @ tomcornhole -= you are bvoiusly a stupid, brain dead, drug -sucking piece of SHIT ! Now FUCK OFF YOU DOPEY LITTLE BASTARD !

  • I'd like to hear Kim Il Sung do this one with Sarkozy and Chavez, would be fucin hillarious.

  • classic goons.thanks.

  • talent before their time, good clean fun, understandable. BRILLIANT.

  • Its beyond the ordinary,its for those who understand what life is all about.

    Simply the best that ever lived,from down under in South Africa,tuning in to the bbc on a Sunday night,thank you Dad,has made me what I am today.

    Thank you THE GOONS you keep me sane and wanting to life. R.I.P.

  • BRILLIANT SONG

  • i have just found this.......what memories.......my aunt used to sit me on her knee even when i was in my 30s and this was our act at family gatherings..............weird but hilarious

  • It's up to 35 people that have fallen in the water.

  • This song is SOOOOO about my life...!

  • MY dad used to sing this to me when I was young, he had me in fits this is the best comedy ever. LOVE IT. ;)

  • iansummerell. When did he think that John o Groats was in England ?

  • My sister and I put this record on every Saturday, as a wake up call for Mum and Dad. Brings back some long ago memories. I love it!

  • I do not believe some of the crap I am reading. The Goons were a fantastic advance guard, experementing with new comedy ideas. They had all come out of a second world war situation and were just looking to bring new ideas into the post war enternainment scene. They were fantastic in their time and should be respected as such. Monty Pythons Flying Circus would never have existed without the inspiration provided by Spike Milligan in his later television shows, or indeed the original Goon Shows.

  • This was played at my grandad's funeral a couple of days ago, i was close to him. Rest in Peace Grandad. <3

  • My uncle Derek (82) had it played at his funeral last week as well.

    Everybady there was smiling as they went out.

  • @torq42 God bless him. He had great taste!

  • its really funny

    but really weird. 

  • @LoveAnnie98 weirder than justin bieber being in the charts?

  • its really funny

    

  • 34 people have fallen in the water

  • Im a 25yo male and LOVE the goons and most comedy from this era.. When i was at school i was singing this song (not in class) and my teacher told me to stop as it was racist and offensive. He even kept me back in after school.. Ive never got why tbh im 99% sure its not racist in anyway... >< Am i wrong?

  • @chubbylilloser WHY is it racist, silly, very silly little song and its racists? Anything teacher do not understand it racist. Not part of the curriculum, can not have anything that my prove you are a free thinker. Ying Tong Dilly I BOOW

  • @iansummerell A few days later i was talking to my friend about this song and the teacher. He said he seemed to remember the teacher saying it was about the chinese.. Lol He was an odd little man, hated when a any student tried to question something he had told them as fact nm HOW wrong he was. For e.g He once showed up a map of england and said it was 1200 miles from lands end to John o' Groats by road. One of the pupils looked up and said it was just under 900 (which it is) He got Detention.

  • @chubbylilloser My step daughter wrote about holiday with us in Wales, Shooting pigeons for farmers, she was ask to write about her holiday. So she did. Teacher Anti-killing animals and she got marked down. Could have made end of year marks look bad. Have a look at the modern curriculum, blue print for the left wing. I'm now having to de-bunk my grand children.

  • @iansummerell Im actully anti-killing animals, but that is disgusting. You cant mark down children just because they have diff views from you -_- They say schools are now all about free speech. While it is on paper, its far diff when it comes to the class rooms. Its still a dictatorship. I hope your stepdaughters marks turned out okay at the end of the year?

  • @iansummerell Also (random) He gave another pupil Detention after the student said he was an 'Agnostic' and not a christian. He is dead now.. so we had the last laugh :)...

  • As much as I love these three goons why does every body forget the fourth goon. Michael Bentine?

  • this rocks lol rip goons ! (wasn't born yet wen did this born 82 ) fantastic

  • This used to scare the sh...you know who out of me when I was small. Now I like it. Well done Spoke Millegegs.... whee SPLAT!

  • Happy Birthday Goons!

  • I need this as a ring tone!! genius! I love the Goons, Spike in particular :)

  • @buckley54: It may have been issued as a 78rpm originally, but I had the 7" 45rpm version, and the song on the flipside was "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas".

  • 33 people must have had their sense of humour surgically removed at birth! Brilliant!

  • This was played at my nans funeral, had the whole church in fits of laughter :L rip nana <3

  • What was on the flipside? I assume it was on a 78

  • Just played this to my 5 kids. Their faces said it all. Couldn't believe their mum was raspberry blowing. Takes me back to being a kid and listening to my dad sing it, then with his glasses all awry, taking off Eric Morecome and doing their final skip/hop dance off stage. Happy memories.

  • @tuktaclarehayes You speak of Morecome and Wise..i have a wonderful VHS of them live on stage...never seen it on DVD...i think their manager paid for the recording as a present for so many years(anniversary) in the business..find it ...enjoy...Great British Humour...!bring me sunsine,,,in your smile

  • I first herd this song when I was 2 weeks old. Gives you some idea of what my farther was like and the level of patience my mother had with him. :-)

  • Makes me laugh every time and I bought this as a kid , still sounds great.

  • OMG!! IN STEREO!!!!  This was the first record I ever bought!!! it was mono

  • Anyone who thinks this is racist is, frankly, stupid. This was inoffensive humour created in the realms of nonsense- no hidden agenda, just in it for the nonsense.

  • i like the ying tong part

  • @Lackmintdayeb `ying tong` was adapted from spikes army pal/pianist harry edington (ed-ying-tong)

  • EXCELLENT QUALITY UPLOAD. thanks for sharing.

  • that was very disturbing...

  • @imowtflol It has characteristics of the period, but Spike et al almost alone invented alternative humour as we know it today. Huge originals. Get an education, because you're very ignorant of history! (Or maybe you have No sense of humour?)

  • @imowtflol You obviously have no sense of humour and are ignorant of history to boot. There would be no alternative humour today without Spike and co. True originals, who turned the decade of the '50s on its head. Get an education!

  • @imowtflol you sir, must be a very sad person. no sense of humor whatsoever... pittiful.

  • OOOO look its Neddie Seagoon

  • pointless but me grandad likes it!

  • 30 people have fallen in the water.

  • @zionravescene 34 now...lets hope they can`t swim

  • @zionravescene Well they should not have put it there in the first place!

  • @zionravescene  37 now

  • 30 dislikes? The Red Bladder strikes again!!

  • oh man. thanks for this. some dead patient had this played at her funeral last week. had to find out the tune and all.

  • anyone els love a video on this?

  • 28 people need their Yings Tonged and their Poes Tiddled.

  • Awesome!

  • A lot of Chinese is people found this quite offensive.

  • @hkjkdsifu Yeah, all 26 of them!

  • @hkjkdsifu ... The song is derived from the last name of Spike's life-long pal Harry Edgington .. it has nothing to do with the Chinese.

  • the guy on the right looks like Ricky Gervais. IT MUST HAVE BEEN A FORESHADOWING!!

  • Wow. Black and white.... Sorry am I allowed to those words? Radio days. Ying tong on.

  • I used to laugh my ass off to this when I was a kid!

  • Peter Sellers! what a legend! the most greatest Cluoseau!

  • @samarian100 .. DOH aplogies 'sir' I just re-read your post and I get the joke now.. So sorry I must look like a right stoopid nana... Sorry again, your suttle wit flew right over mi' bonce... ;0)x

  • Cor Harry's raspberries are amazing, no wonder he was puffed out at the end of that bit in the song... 'Ying Tong away chaps, I'll be jing tonging with ya'... :0)x

  • What a song nigga

  • The Spike Jones influence is apparent. In fact, I'm starting to wonder if Milligan adopted his nickname from Jones.

  • @sqweels I think it was given to him in the army rather than claimed for himself but your right he was a crazy jazz musician as was Spike Jones and that was the inspiration

  • @sqweels I think it was given to him in the army rather than claimed for himself but your right he was a crazy jazz musician as was Spike Jones and that was the inspiration

  • Ohh , they dont write songs like that any more , thank goodness ! :-)

  • i like the last few seconds at 3:23

  • I am in Aladdin and this song is in it! we have a rare dance to it! xx

  • i love it when it goes all fst and squeaky at the end! i heard this as a child and couldnt get it out my head, im so glad to hear it after all these years.

    god bless, spike.

  • The BBC tried a TV version of the show, using puppets, in the mid-1960s but it wasn't a success because the surreal humour lay totally in the imagination. For instance I know exactly how my favourite character, Major Dennis Bloodnok - the venal corrupt immoral old soak, late of the Fourth Devonshire Cowards - looked but everyone else would have their own image. Visuals are completely unnecessary and in fact irrelevant.

  • The Goons: Spike Milligan, Harry Seacombe, Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine

  • HILARIOUS!

  • No Goons = No Monty Python = A world not worth living in.

  • the song title was inspired from spike milligans army friend harry edgington (edge-ying-ton)

  • @unclemort1960

    Ya ur correct, my claim to fame is my surname is edgington! classic

  • oh wow what a classic

  • This is like...

    Being high... without the drugs...

  • Sod that goonshow. I have the original 45" (and that took some hanging on to) with Bloodnok's rumba on the other side.

  • @kipperwacker i have my b side

    i'm walking backwards for christmas.!

  • i realy realy love this song i love singign it around my friends and getting on their nurves haha, its a song that il gladly get stuck in my head

  • COMEDY NEVER EQUALLED.!

  • @jocksmen True. and without any profanity!! Just great comedy!!

  • lawl

  • As Shakespeare wrote, a fool cannot act the fool. Milligan was a genius.

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  • @garykelly1944 Milligan 'is' a genius and has left a Legacy!

  • @Gyphia And you are welcome to it. Thank you for the interesting insight into my personality. I'm crushed. Gentlemanly instincts prevent me from thinking of, far less expressing the wish, that you should go fuck yourself.

  • gotta start somewhere i suppose. parts of it is funny to me, guess I'm just from the wrong generation or side of the world lol

  • ying tong id'll I po!

  • My dad likes this song...he just sent it to me "(FACEPALM)" DX !!!

  • Hahaha!!! Love it!! XD

  • Wrong,Old Gal --we met in a dance class. Not being naive about women or immigrants I understand your dig, though. I met her at dance classes, having met many Hong Kong Chinese, male and female through dancing and found them to my surprise, to be very good company socially. She is an absolutely beautiful dancer, and we just danced together for months, both fighting the attraction for various reasons. Proper dancing is a spiritual thing, and ours merged in the dance.

  • @Jigaboo123456 thank god you aren't on arrse anymore. you post utter bollocks and drivel.

  • When others dared to agree, the Lib-tards ( Bet you most of them never served, or were REMFS) warned me to shut up or get slung off--I didn't I was, no biggie I have a life. The good thing was, it showed the others who were open-minded that you really are a bunch of pathetic totalitarian scum who's arguments cannot stand up to rational scrutiny. As I said,I have a life so now fuck off, life's too short for spending a long time on a computer, especially with areoles like you, I'm done, bye

  • I only joined it to hear from those who now serve in my old regiments, but I made a reasonable comment on Paki flood relief and Lefty Gaurdianistas like you went ape-shit.( Continued below)

  • @Jigaboo123456 @Jigaboo123456 @fragman08 Hmm..I have a cyber-stalker. What a knob-end. The few postings (about ten?) I did on Army rumour service were not regarded as drivel by the majority of those who had posted( particularly those who had served although the usual right-on wankers like yourself took offence at free expression.

  • TheBelovedButterfly-Go away

    

  • @mercian7 Nah.... don't think I will.

  • It's me, the crazymad writer - yipee!

  • @crazymadwriter nor everyone who is talented or clever NEEDS to be a poof.

    Neither does deep friendship between men require a perverse sexual attraction. Milligan and Secombe met whilst on active service in North Africa. Milligan claims there first encounter war when an artillery peice from Secombe's battery fell over a cliff and landed near his battery below. Secombe poked his head over the edge and shouted "Anyone seen a 25-pounder?"

  • What was Harry Seacombe all about? How did two Great British comedy icons manage to form a bond with that particular personage? I'm sure there's a fascinating story there. And I wonder if his later TV series "Take the High Road" was a cover for his homosexuality? In those days, you couldn't be Christian and a woofta. At least not on TV. I sight the example of Cliff Richard. Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure someone will point to his wife and three children.

  • While the Tories are in power and the lunatics are running the asylum, this should be the British national anthem!

  • @TheBelovedButterfly Bad as they are, the Tories would need to go some to be as bad as the nation-wrecking scum who preceeded them. The political classes are degenerate greedy opportunists following the psuedo- liberal dogma of cultural Marxism ie P.C. Most have never done a productive job in their lives, just politically generated crap. Shit, socio-political comments on a funny clip? I only went onto this to send it to my Chinese GF! Youand I need to get out more. Not together though.

  • @Jigaboo123456 have you considered Prozac?

  • @TheBelovedButterfly Yeah, but the chemist had given it all to you. You've OD'ed on the damn stuff, try reality . It's heading your way anyhoo, 13 years of Nu Liebore shit and the continuing E.C. diktat will see to that. Looked at your channel, you might have been cute a few years back. Not cute enough though, it's a shame when pretentious, self-righteous

    liberalism spoils a reasonable-lookin' woman.

  • @Jigaboo123456 and which website did you find your "girlfriend" on?

  • Epic goons!

  • its defo my mum,i should know lol..former vernons girl.....

  • Bentine was in the first series (Crazy people).

  • Haha. That was weird, but awesome.. xD

  • @Jewelrylover111 Agreed  :)

  • I once heard an interview w/ Harry Secombe. He was asked - "You're a trained opera singer. Why isn't your voice more promoted in 'The Ying Tong Song'?"

    "Because,", he replied, " I was pissing myself with laughter and simply could not sing my part. Except for the occasional yell."

  • was michael beintine 1 of the goons

  • Wonderful! Peter...Genius...But Spike...just the funniest man who ever walked the Earth!! great stuff...Lee Mitch...xxx

  • Finally, a national anthem we can all sing!

  • @gombodog Yes! My thoughts exactly!

  • Actually, the person in the middle is Michael Bentine impersonating a BBC michrophone, fellow Goonophiles.

  • @samarian100 ... I am a fellow Goon lover and I think you will find that the chap in the Middle is Peter Sellers (above the Mic) with Spike on the left (as we look athe picture) and Harry on the right...

    Brilliant and so funny, there are a few posts of the guys recording a 'Goon Show' here on youtube, I have watched and chuckled away... This is the perfect way to develope a mature chuckle muscle don't you agree??? Regards from Wales :0)x