The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1262289]

Comments

[wormquartet.livejournal.com]

I hereby submit a suggestion for an upcoming "Important Question:" Christianity vs. Forklifts.

And if you haven't already done it, owner of a lonely heart vs. owner of a broken heart.

-=ShoEboX=-

[mike46.livejournal.com]

** Sarcasm mode enabled **

Could you possibly make the choice more difficult next time?

** Sarcasm mode disabled **

There's a question for you ... HHGTG or Red Dwarf

[the-hunter.livejournal.com]

HHG in Radio, TV or film? Because HHG if radio, RD if TV or film.

[mike46.livejournal.com]

That is a very good point. I would agree that the radio version of HHGTG kicks major butt and is clearly the winner.

Altho Chris Barrie does a very good rendition of all the cast voices in the audio versions of Red Dwarf I have heard.

[ericcoleman]

I love the HHG TV series. RD has never done much of anything for me.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I have to pass on this poll. I have never actually seen either show, although I have heard clips from them.

[ericcoleman]

You wouldn't have been able to see them ... unless you were in the studio audience

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Aren't both of these Canadian TV comedy series, like Monty Python (except being produced by CTV instead of BBC). If not, then I am confusing shows in my head.

[ericcoleman]

Get the to a Wikipedia ... The Goon Show was a brit radio show from the 50s that laid down the rules for brit comedy as you know it. ISIRTA is from the 60s and was where folks like John Cleese and the folks who went on to form The Goodies got their first notice

[powersalad.livejournal.com]

From a purely entertainment standpoint, I think ISIRTA is more accessible, especially to non-Brits, but from a historical/influence standpoint, it has to go to The Goons, there was basically nothing like it before, and little since...I understand NBC Radio actually ran The Goon Show in the late 50s, wonder what the reaction was at the time, I still have a hard time getting it, and I consider myself a Britcom fan for sure...But it can't be argued that the show and the manner of its production changed the rules...(from Sir George Martin's book All You Need Is Ears, Spike Milligan went in with Ray Galton and Eric Sykes to form a script-writing collective company, which later influenced how Martin broke away from EMI as an independent producer with some others, and formed AIR).

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

You bastard. Making me choose. But I must go with the first one, if ONLY for the historicity.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Goon Show. For that all-star cast. For what George Martin did for them and their records. Maybe Sir George could be considered The Fifth Goon?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I think the fifth would have to be Wallace Greenslade.

[ericcoleman]

then who was the 4th?

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

is this an old people question?

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

It's more of an Anglophile question. But being old enough to remember Go-Go Boots helps.