Larry Stephens
@lsggbg.bsky.social
Writer for Goon Show & Tony Hancock. Commando Captain. Deaded in 1959 so posts channelled by my cousin.
SECOMBE: Look - there's a moose over there. Give me the gun.
CRUN: Shoot, Secombe! Shoot!
FX: SHOT
ECCLES: OK, I've shot Secombe. What now?
(Goon Show S4 E20, 12 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
CRUN: Shoot, Secombe! Shoot!
FX: SHOT
ECCLES: OK, I've shot Secombe. What now?
(Goon Show S4 E20, 12 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 AM
SECOMBE: Look - there's a moose over there. Give me the gun.
CRUN: Shoot, Secombe! Shoot!
FX: SHOT
ECCLES: OK, I've shot Secombe. What now?
(Goon Show S4 E20, 12 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
CRUN: Shoot, Secombe! Shoot!
FX: SHOT
ECCLES: OK, I've shot Secombe. What now?
(Goon Show S4 E20, 12 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
HARRY: Let me have a look at the menu... er... what's deuxième janvier?
PETER: That's the date.
HARRY: Can I have custard on it?
(Goon Show S3 E14, 10 Feb 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
PETER: That's the date.
HARRY: Can I have custard on it?
(Goon Show S3 E14, 10 Feb 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
February 10, 2026 at 8:21 AM
HARRY: Let me have a look at the menu... er... what's deuxième janvier?
PETER: That's the date.
HARRY: Can I have custard on it?
(Goon Show S3 E14, 10 Feb 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
PETER: That's the date.
HARRY: Can I have custard on it?
(Goon Show S3 E14, 10 Feb 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
BB: What time is it, Eccles?
E: Just a minute, I got it written down here on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
BB: Why do you carry it around with you?
E: If anybody asks me the time, I can show it to them.
(Goon Show 7 Feb 1957. Script by Milligan & Stephens.)
E: Just a minute, I got it written down here on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
BB: Why do you carry it around with you?
E: If anybody asks me the time, I can show it to them.
(Goon Show 7 Feb 1957. Script by Milligan & Stephens.)
February 7, 2026 at 8:09 AM
BB: What time is it, Eccles?
E: Just a minute, I got it written down here on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
BB: Why do you carry it around with you?
E: If anybody asks me the time, I can show it to them.
(Goon Show 7 Feb 1957. Script by Milligan & Stephens.)
E: Just a minute, I got it written down here on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
BB: Why do you carry it around with you?
E: If anybody asks me the time, I can show it to them.
(Goon Show 7 Feb 1957. Script by Milligan & Stephens.)
BLUEBOTTLE: I shall not speak. No word shall pass my lips. Beat me, torture me, burn me with red-hot irons - I will not speak... Until it hurts.
(Goon Show S4 E19, 5 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
(Goon Show S4 E19, 5 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
February 5, 2026 at 11:55 AM
BLUEBOTTLE: I shall not speak. No word shall pass my lips. Beat me, torture me, burn me with red-hot irons - I will not speak... Until it hurts.
(Goon Show S4 E19, 5 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
(Goon Show S4 E19, 5 Feb 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
THYNNE: What are you doing in Paris?
SEAGOON: Starving.
THYNNE: Unpatriotic devil! Why don't you starve in England?
(Goon Show S8 E19, 3 Feb 1958. Script by Larry Stephens & Maurice Wiltshire.)
SEAGOON: Starving.
THYNNE: Unpatriotic devil! Why don't you starve in England?
(Goon Show S8 E19, 3 Feb 1958. Script by Larry Stephens & Maurice Wiltshire.)
February 3, 2026 at 9:58 AM
THYNNE: What are you doing in Paris?
SEAGOON: Starving.
THYNNE: Unpatriotic devil! Why don't you starve in England?
(Goon Show S8 E19, 3 Feb 1958. Script by Larry Stephens & Maurice Wiltshire.)
SEAGOON: Starving.
THYNNE: Unpatriotic devil! Why don't you starve in England?
(Goon Show S8 E19, 3 Feb 1958. Script by Larry Stephens & Maurice Wiltshire.)
Larry Stephens was living at 17 Broad Court in 1949. It was a 10-minute walk away from the Nuffield Centre which is where he first met Tony Hancock.
Good evening. This week's theme is Covent Garden 🎭🥂🌹
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'Broad Court, Covent Garden' (2024) by Melissa Scott-Miller
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'Broad Court, Covent Garden' (2024) by Melissa Scott-Miller
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February 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Larry Stephens was living at 17 Broad Court in 1949. It was a 10-minute walk away from the Nuffield Centre which is where he first met Tony Hancock.
NED: What are you doing up that tree?
GRYTPYPE-THYNNE: We're mountaineering on a rather tight budget.
(Goon Show S7 E18, 31 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
GRYTPYPE-THYNNE: We're mountaineering on a rather tight budget.
(Goon Show S7 E18, 31 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 31, 2026 at 8:29 AM
NED: What are you doing up that tree?
GRYTPYPE-THYNNE: We're mountaineering on a rather tight budget.
(Goon Show S7 E18, 31 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
GRYTPYPE-THYNNE: We're mountaineering on a rather tight budget.
(Goon Show S7 E18, 31 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
NED: Look! It's an envelope & there's a message inside.
BLOODNOK: A message inside?
NED: Yes, sir.
BLOODNOK: Curse it! I don't speak a word of Side.
(Goon Show S4 E18, 29 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
BLOODNOK: A message inside?
NED: Yes, sir.
BLOODNOK: Curse it! I don't speak a word of Side.
(Goon Show S4 E18, 29 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 29, 2026 at 8:35 AM
NED: Look! It's an envelope & there's a message inside.
BLOODNOK: A message inside?
NED: Yes, sir.
BLOODNOK: Curse it! I don't speak a word of Side.
(Goon Show S4 E18, 29 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
BLOODNOK: A message inside?
NED: Yes, sir.
BLOODNOK: Curse it! I don't speak a word of Side.
(Goon Show S4 E18, 29 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
SECOMBE: What's this thing on the greyhound track? It's a sort of wooden box with a door on the front which is opened by a spring.
SELLERS: Careful, Secombe. This may be a trap.
(Goon Show S3 E12, 27 Jan 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
SELLERS: Careful, Secombe. This may be a trap.
(Goon Show S3 E12, 27 Jan 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
January 27, 2026 at 10:14 AM
SECOMBE: What's this thing on the greyhound track? It's a sort of wooden box with a door on the front which is opened by a spring.
SELLERS: Careful, Secombe. This may be a trap.
(Goon Show S3 E12, 27 Jan 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
SELLERS: Careful, Secombe. This may be a trap.
(Goon Show S3 E12, 27 Jan 1953. Script by Larry Stephens & Spike Milligan. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
It is 67 years today since Goon Show and Tony Hancock writer Larry Stephens died.
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Larry Stephens – Birmingham’s forgotten comedy hero
Remembering a post-war pioneer of British comedy.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:25 AM
It is 67 years today since Goon Show and Tony Hancock writer Larry Stephens died.
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THYNNE: Don't worry, Count Jim. The best laid plans of mice & men gang aft agley.
MORIARTY: Aye, mon wee cowrin tim'rous beastie.
THYNNE: Do you like Burns?
MORIARTY: Yes.
THYNNE: Then hold this white-hot poker. #BurnsNight
(Goon Show S7 E22. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
MORIARTY: Aye, mon wee cowrin tim'rous beastie.
THYNNE: Do you like Burns?
MORIARTY: Yes.
THYNNE: Then hold this white-hot poker. #BurnsNight
(Goon Show S7 E22. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 25, 2026 at 10:23 AM
THYNNE: Don't worry, Count Jim. The best laid plans of mice & men gang aft agley.
MORIARTY: Aye, mon wee cowrin tim'rous beastie.
THYNNE: Do you like Burns?
MORIARTY: Yes.
THYNNE: Then hold this white-hot poker. #BurnsNight
(Goon Show S7 E22. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
MORIARTY: Aye, mon wee cowrin tim'rous beastie.
THYNNE: Do you like Burns?
MORIARTY: Yes.
THYNNE: Then hold this white-hot poker. #BurnsNight
(Goon Show S7 E22. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
ECCLES: You ever seen your daddy's legs?
BLUEBOTTLE: No, he takes them to work with him.
ECCLES: What for?
BLUEBOTTLE: He uses them to stop his trousers from bending.
(Goon Show S7 E17, 24 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
BLUEBOTTLE: No, he takes them to work with him.
ECCLES: What for?
BLUEBOTTLE: He uses them to stop his trousers from bending.
(Goon Show S7 E17, 24 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 AM
ECCLES: You ever seen your daddy's legs?
BLUEBOTTLE: No, he takes them to work with him.
ECCLES: What for?
BLUEBOTTLE: He uses them to stop his trousers from bending.
(Goon Show S7 E17, 24 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
BLUEBOTTLE: No, he takes them to work with him.
ECCLES: What for?
BLUEBOTTLE: He uses them to stop his trousers from bending.
(Goon Show S7 E17, 24 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
Reposted by Larry Stephens
Going to the barbers and asking them for a "Goon Show"
January 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Going to the barbers and asking them for a "Goon Show"
"My name is Bloodnok - Major Bloodnok - late of the First Knitted Comforts. We were at Balaclava, you know."
(Goon Show S4 E17, 22 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
(Goon Show S4 E17, 22 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 22, 2026 at 9:48 AM
"My name is Bloodnok - Major Bloodnok - late of the First Knitted Comforts. We were at Balaclava, you know."
(Goon Show S4 E17, 22 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
(Goon Show S4 E17, 22 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
TIM: Let us pay tribute to the great political leaders of our democracy.
PETER: Here is a list of politicians whom the British people love & trust.
TIM: (AFTER EXACTLY 4 SECONDS SILENCE) Next, let us look into...
(Goon Show S3 E10, 13 Jan 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
PETER: Here is a list of politicians whom the British people love & trust.
TIM: (AFTER EXACTLY 4 SECONDS SILENCE) Next, let us look into...
(Goon Show S3 E10, 13 Jan 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 AM
TIM: Let us pay tribute to the great political leaders of our democracy.
PETER: Here is a list of politicians whom the British people love & trust.
TIM: (AFTER EXACTLY 4 SECONDS SILENCE) Next, let us look into...
(Goon Show S3 E10, 13 Jan 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
PETER: Here is a list of politicians whom the British people love & trust.
TIM: (AFTER EXACTLY 4 SECONDS SILENCE) Next, let us look into...
(Goon Show S3 E10, 13 Jan 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
MALF: Could you slow down just a bit here? I want to take a photograph of the Earth.
ECCLES: Here! I just saw the Earth through the clouds.
MALF: Did it look round?
ECCLES: Yer, but I don't think it saw me.
(Goon Show S7 E15, 10 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
ECCLES: Here! I just saw the Earth through the clouds.
MALF: Did it look round?
ECCLES: Yer, but I don't think it saw me.
(Goon Show S7 E15, 10 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 10, 2026 at 11:44 AM
MALF: Could you slow down just a bit here? I want to take a photograph of the Earth.
ECCLES: Here! I just saw the Earth through the clouds.
MALF: Did it look round?
ECCLES: Yer, but I don't think it saw me.
(Goon Show S7 E15, 10 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
ECCLES: Here! I just saw the Earth through the clouds.
MALF: Did it look round?
ECCLES: Yer, but I don't think it saw me.
(Goon Show S7 E15, 10 Jan 1957. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
Reposted by Larry Stephens
We had some wonderful news to end 2025 and begin 2026. Our Highly Steamed organisation has received its own version of a New Year Honour in the shape of a communication confirming that His Majesty The King would be delighted to retain Patronage of The Goon Show Preservation Society.
January 4, 2026 at 9:42 AM
We had some wonderful news to end 2025 and begin 2026. Our Highly Steamed organisation has received its own version of a New Year Honour in the shape of a communication confirming that His Majesty The King would be delighted to retain Patronage of The Goon Show Preservation Society.
FX: PHONE RINGS
NED: Eccles, answer that phone.
ECCLES: Hello? Hello? Hello?
NED: Pick it up first, you fool.
(Goon Show S4 E15, 8 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
NED: Eccles, answer that phone.
ECCLES: Hello? Hello? Hello?
NED: Pick it up first, you fool.
(Goon Show S4 E15, 8 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
January 8, 2026 at 9:46 AM
FX: PHONE RINGS
NED: Eccles, answer that phone.
ECCLES: Hello? Hello? Hello?
NED: Pick it up first, you fool.
(Goon Show S4 E15, 8 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
NED: Eccles, answer that phone.
ECCLES: Hello? Hello? Hello?
NED: Pick it up first, you fool.
(Goon Show S4 E15, 8 Jan 1954. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
Reposted by Larry Stephens
We were very sorry to learn of the death of John Antrobus on 15 December at the age of 92. John co-wrote 2 Goon Shows with Spike Milligan in 1958 - The Spon Plague (S8E23) and The Great Statue Debate (S8E26). He will be very much missed. May he rest in peace.
December 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
We were very sorry to learn of the death of John Antrobus on 15 December at the age of 92. John co-wrote 2 Goon Shows with Spike Milligan in 1958 - The Spon Plague (S8E23) and The Great Statue Debate (S8E26). He will be very much missed. May he rest in peace.
Reposted by Larry Stephens
GSPS magazine no. 191 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today?
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December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
GSPS magazine no. 191 is out now, folks! If you're not a member yet, why not join today?
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HARRY: I'm Harry Secombe.
PETER: Secombe? How do you spell it?
HARRY: S. M. I. T. H.
PETER: Why do you spell it like that?
HARRY: I'm in disguise.
(Goon Show S4 E1, 2 Oct 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
PETER: Secombe? How do you spell it?
HARRY: S. M. I. T. H.
PETER: Why do you spell it like that?
HARRY: I'm in disguise.
(Goon Show S4 E1, 2 Oct 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
October 2, 2025 at 8:39 AM
HARRY: I'm Harry Secombe.
PETER: Secombe? How do you spell it?
HARRY: S. M. I. T. H.
PETER: Why do you spell it like that?
HARRY: I'm in disguise.
(Goon Show S4 E1, 2 Oct 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
PETER: Secombe? How do you spell it?
HARRY: S. M. I. T. H.
PETER: Why do you spell it like that?
HARRY: I'm in disguise.
(Goon Show S4 E1, 2 Oct 1953. Script by Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens.)
Reposted by Larry Stephens
I'm genuinely thrilled to discover that an episode of The Army Game written by my Larry Stephens @lsggbg.bsky.social with Maurice Wiltshire has been uploaded to ITVX as part of the 70th birthday celebrations
September 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm genuinely thrilled to discover that an episode of The Army Game written by my Larry Stephens @lsggbg.bsky.social with Maurice Wiltshire has been uploaded to ITVX as part of the 70th birthday celebrations
NED: A house!
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
September 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
NED: A house!
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
BLOODNOK: It's a mirage.
NED: Nonsense... Let's go in. Eccles - search the house for food... Oh! It's vanished. You were right - a mirage.
BLOODNOK: I told you.
ECCLES: AHHHHH!
FX: CRASH OF BODY
BLOODNOK: What happened?
ECCLES: I was upstairs.
(Vintage Goons, 22 Sep 1958)
GLENDENNING: Determined to be the first man to fly, Pureheart climbed to the top of a tower & flapping his feathered wings, jumped off.
TIM: That day a new word was introduced to the language of science.
PUREHEART: Yes - crutches.
(Crazy People S1 E17, 20 Sep 1951 by Milligan, Stephens & Grafton)
TIM: That day a new word was introduced to the language of science.
PUREHEART: Yes - crutches.
(Crazy People S1 E17, 20 Sep 1951 by Milligan, Stephens & Grafton)
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
GLENDENNING: Determined to be the first man to fly, Pureheart climbed to the top of a tower & flapping his feathered wings, jumped off.
TIM: That day a new word was introduced to the language of science.
PUREHEART: Yes - crutches.
(Crazy People S1 E17, 20 Sep 1951 by Milligan, Stephens & Grafton)
TIM: That day a new word was introduced to the language of science.
PUREHEART: Yes - crutches.
(Crazy People S1 E17, 20 Sep 1951 by Milligan, Stephens & Grafton)
Reposted by Larry Stephens
Tony Hancock married Cicely Romanis on 18 Sep 1950. Here's a photo of him on the day with his Best Man, Larry Stephens.
September 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Tony Hancock married Cicely Romanis on 18 Sep 1950. Here's a photo of him on the day with his Best Man, Larry Stephens.