sometimes the goon show is quite thurberian. "he speaks in spokes" is a classic thurber-type line. no wonder peter sellers and james thurber liked each other so much.

from Series 7 Episode 18: The Moon Show

Spriggs: Yes folks, it is 1853, a year of months. (Harry giggles off mic) No giggling please. Now then, if listeners in the Lincolnshire district will raise their blinds, they will observe the moon casting its painted wooden beams upon a compost heap on which is found a ragged idiot, recumbent upon a field of turnips. He speaks in spokes. Oh ho ho ho.

Ned: Ah moon. Ah English type moon. What beauty, what rotundity, what delicacy, what purity, what joy.

Grytpype: What rubbish.

Ned: (rising inflection) What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what?

Grytpype: Only ten watts? You’re not very bright, are you?