Neddie Seagoon was a character in the 1950s British radio comedy show, The Goon Show. He was created and performed by Welshman Harry Secombe. Seagoon was usually the central character of a Goon Show episode, with Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers' many characters interacting with him and each other. Neddie Seagoon was an affable but gullible idiot. Often chronically poor and/or part of the government, Seagoon frequently falls prey to the schemes of Hercules Grytpype-Thynne and Count Jim Moriarty, and needs the help of Bluebottle, Eccles, and sometimes even Major Bloodnok to rescue himself. Neddie's appearance was based on Secombe's own likeness, exaggerated for comic effect. Thus, he was often described as very short, round and immensely fat. In "The Greenslade Story", John Snagge describes him as "a little ball of fat", while in "The Mummified Priest" Bloodnok identifies him as Seagoon on the grounds "Who else could walk under a piano stool?" He also suffers from duck's disease. He shares Secombe's tenor voice, as used to identify him in "The Mystery of the Fake Neddie Seagoons". He was also generally Welsh; in "Tales of Men's Shirts" and "The Last of the Smoking Seagoons" he is referred to as Ned of Wales, and in "The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy", Greenslade introduces him with the line "a bundle of Welsh rags suddenly becomes animate." Wikipedia [ - ]

Neddie Seagoon was a character in the 1950s British radio comedy show, The Goon Show. He was... [ + ]