The Goodies
Left to right:
Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden in a screenshot from the title sequence of the BBC TV series |
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| Nationality | British |
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| Genre | Sketch comedy, surreal humour |
| Media | Television, theatre, audio recordings |
| Years active | 1970–1982; 2005-present |
| Status | Active |
| Notable works |
The Goodies television series (1970–1982) The Goodies – stage shows (2005–) |
| Other works (starring all three Goodies) |
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (1964–1973) (25th anniversary special 1989) Broaden Your Mind (1968) |
| Official website | The Official Goodies Rule – OK! |
The Goodies are a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. They wrote for and performed in their eponymous surreal comedy show during the 1970s and early 1980s, combining sketches and situation comedy.
The three actors met each other as undergraduates at Cambridge University, where Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Garden was studying medicine, and Oddie was studying English. Their contemporaries included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle, who later became members of Monty Python, and with whom they became close friends. Brooke-Taylor and Cleese studied together and swapped lecture notes as they were both law students, but at different colleges within the university. All three Goodies became members of the Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and Garden succeeding him as president in 1964.
Garden himself was succeeded as Footlights Club president in 1965 by Idle, who had initially become aware of the Footlights when he auditioned for a Pembroke College "smoker" for Brooke-Taylor and Oddie.
Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of the 1960s BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which also featured John Cleese, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, and lasted until 1973. I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again resulted from the 1963 Cambridge University Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths. After having its title changed to Cambridge Circus, the revue went on to play at West End in London, England, followed by a tour of New Zealand and Broadway in New York, US (including an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show).
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