Tim Brooke-Taylor

[Pyan]

Tim Brooke-Taylor, who starred in The Goodies and I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue, died on Sunday of Covid-19. He was 78.

RIP, Timbo, and my deepest thanks for all the laughs.

 

[Hugh]

Ahh! RIP indeed.

Lady Constance de Coverlet can finally stand down.

 

[Ian Fortytwo]

RIP Tim.

 

[mosaix]

Very, very sad.

 

[Droflet]

That's a pity. He was hilarious in the goodies.

 

[Vince W]

Such sad news, RIP.

 

[BigBadBob141]

Sorry to hear this, was a big fan of The Goodies, R.I.P. Tim.

 

[Luiglin]

The Goodies were a mainstay of my growing up. The word play, the physical humour, the bizarre tales, I lapped it up. Much of what I have and still find funny I can trace back to them.

 

[Rodders]

I loved the Goodies. I’ll always remember their cowboy sketch with the tomato sauce.

R. I. P. Tim.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

A very funny man, especially in radio. The stuff he did in the '60s and '70s was fantastic.
RIP.

 

[Pyan]

A very funny man, especially in radio. The stuff he did in the '60s and '70s was fantastic.
RIP.

Absolutely. It was ISIRTA that put me onto 'madcap humour' - my dad could never understand just why I was rolling on the ground, stuffing a sleeve in my mouth. "My name is Angus Prune and this is my tune, it goes: I - S - I - R - T - A, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again". Magic. Thanks again, Tim.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Aww, no - just read this on the news. Sad indeed.

 

[The Judge]

Very sad. He was marvellous on I'm Sorry... but it was as a Goodie I'll always remember him.

At my school there was a tradition that at the end of the summer term the leaving Sixth Formers would put on a review-type show in the afternoon. But before that, at 9am, they would have a kind of fancy dress parade with a procession around the streets surrounding the school (it was in its own block) and then down the drive and into the school proper. My best friend and I loved the Goodies so guess who we dressed up as...

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I'm Tim -- goodness only knows where I got the waistcoat and Union Jack from. (No suit -- the only one available would have been my father's weddings-and-funerals affair which would have swamped me.) It's hard to see from this image, but Krys has thick glasses, a proper tie and the requisite tweed jacket as Graeme. Her teddy was Bill -- short and hairy. We couldn't run to a tandem, much less a trandem (Krys and Teddy-Bill rode and I walked) but we did have homemade badges.