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- How can you afford such expensive impressions?
- Because I do a brilliant impression of a large bank account.

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6 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:01:04 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Good heavens, it's Peter Sellers, who has just broken his own record of keeping a car for more than a month.

- Well, you may laugh. The trouble is, nobody's yet invented a Hi-Fi car, that takes films in colour with a built in tape recorder. But the day will comes, markee.

(Peter Sellers does car impression)

- Stop those car impressions.

- I can't. This is a chauffeur-driven impression.

- Stop here, Jim. (Impression of car stopping)

- How can you afford such expensive impressions?

- Because I do a brilliant impression of a large bank account.

- Splendid! You're just the type to do the impressions in our most recent leather Goon Show, entitled The Space Age!

- When news of the new Russian satellite was released on the Sunday, the high-ranking British astronomers were unfortunately away for the weekend.

- However, the moment they were informed of the phenomena, they immediately continued their weekend holiday.

- But in Hailsham, a small English village just across the Channel from France, an Englishman staunch and true was at work.

- Ah, that's my cue, thank you.Now where's my tin speaking trumpet?

[...]

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The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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