Neddie Seagoon

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Neddie Pugh Seagoon was a character in the British radio comedy, The Goon Show. Voiced by Harry Secombe, Seagoon was the main character, or at least the stories revolved around him. Because of this, Secombe almost never did any other characters.

Often chronically poor or part of the government (such as the strolling Prime Minister of no fixed address or some other civil servant), Seagoon usually falls prey to the schemes of Hercules Grytpype-Thynne (voiced by Peter Sellers) and Count Jim Moriarty (voiced by Spike Milligan). 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 one episode, John Snagge described him as "a little ball of fat". In the episode "Nineteen Eighty-Five" (a play on "Nineteen Eighty-Four") he says: "over the weeks that they tortured me my weight dropped by ten stone, I went down to a mere twenty stone..."

At one point he appears to have been Major Bloodnok's batman.

Neddy would often step out of the frame of the story. He greeted the audience, referring to them as "folks". He would also narrate some of the story and usually converse with Wallace Greenslade (announcer of the goons); one such was as follows:

Seagoon: What have we got in store for them tonight?
Greenslade: Rubbish.
Seagoon: That's right, absolute rubbish!

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