2. We all know about the British Invasion as a musical story: the Beatles, the Stones, the Who. But, less visible in North America, this efflorescence overlapped with the great flourishing of English comedy: The Goon Show, Sellers, eventually Python.
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3. There were multiple links between the comedy explosion & music explosion. Both owing a debt to musical hall & nonsense literature, records as a major venue for comedy in that era, George Martin as a producer for Goon Show & other comedians before becoming Beatles impresario.
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4. Also stylistic links: love of word play, slyness, cheekiness, dallops of absurdity. Yellow Submarine was Python before Python. As Louis Menand notes in Free World, Beatles were masters of comedic press conference.pic.twitter.com/DURYHzWbqQ
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5. At one point in Get Back, Ringo suggests they do a silent movie. And the ending of the documentary, with the absurdly helmet London bobbies getting the run around is a late period Chaplin movie. Naturally Harrison would later produce Life of Brian.
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6. For more on the Beatles as comedian, and many other fab four thoughts about Get Back, listen to the podcast I did with
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Especially since Harrison bankrolled Life of Brian.
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https://youtu.be/vVwTY2BG9FA Peter played the drums actually. Could have offered to play with the boys instead of them stewing.
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They were GOON SHOW fans
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the Goons set the tone for the British Invasion. Also he was visiting the studio before making Magic Christian.
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"Peter, can you play guitar, luv?"
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