RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor

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Apparently he has died from Covid-19

I don't really remember him from The Goodies but I did like him on I'm sorry I haven't a clue.

Oh no! I loved the goodies!

I feel very sad about this. I suppose because he was part of my childhood and seemed like such a nice guy.

Loved Tim and the Goodies 😰. The kitten on the Post Office Tower

Stirling Moss too.

rip Timbrook Taylor..that's how I always heard his name too.

So sad. I love ISIHAC, especially when he sings! He will be very missed.

Very sad news.

Why doesn't someone start a petition to the BBC? It would be good if they showed an episode of The Goodies as a tribute. They've always refused to show repeats because it isn't politically correct.

The Goodies was the earliest alternative comedy I saw. I’m really upset to hear the news

So many happy memories of TBT. RIP.

This is so sad. I absolutely loved the Goodies during the 70s.

The giant kitten
The send up of Rock Follies (The Little Laddies)
Celtic Kiltie
The shoot out at the OK Coral as to whether the word was pronounced "sconn" or "scone".

They also had several chart hits (I don't know how high they charted but I used to hear them lots on the radio back then)

Funky Gibbon
Too Old to be a teenage heartthrob (or something like that)
Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me (As she stood beneath the mistletoe-ow-ow)
Black Pudding Bertha

RIP Tim

RIP Tim, the goodies were part of my childhood fond memories of watching them with my DF, yy loved the lunacy & sheer silliness.

I thought his name was, Timbrook Taylor.

Isn't that how everyone says it?

RIP Tim. I lover The Goodies as a kid, and ISIHAC latterly. No one will ever play the Swanee whistle like that again.

Sorry to hear this
Agree that his singing on ISIHAC was brilliant

Such a shame.

Another Timbrook fan here.

everyone of a certain age now has a funky gibbon earworm. And all the other classic Goodies moments. Eckythump, anyone?

RIP 'Timbo'. A good age but still a very sad day.

And Sir Stirling too - 'who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?'

I’m really sad about this. My memories go right back to listening to “I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again” on a radio illicitly smuggled into boarding school, and I can still hear him doing Lady Constance in my head. I also loved his gentle humour in ISIHAC. He’ll be much missed.

My earworm is the Angus Prune tune from ISIRTA.

Sodding Coronavirus.

What the hell isn't politically correct about a kitten toppling the GPO/BT tower?

What the hell isn't politically correct about a kitten toppling the GPO/BT tower?

Or dinosaur-like diggers?

I think it was the apart-height one , somehow someone missed that it was satire.

Farewell Lady Constance. You'll be missed.

Did somebody call?

RIP Tim and thank you for all the laughs. Such a witty man and seemed really lovely too.

Ah! The Angus Prune Tune!

Great name BTW Julie.

@ErrolTheDragon

I'd never heard of that but it has its own wiki entry! Definitely satire, unless you're stupid or the BBC.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_(The_Goodies)

So sad: I’ve been listening to him on Sorry I’ll Read That Again/Haven’t a Clue my whole life.

We have the Goodies DVDs. Kitten Kong is still brilliant, but the problems are
A) teethgratingly awful canned laughter (Kitten Kong is available without it, but the others aren’t). It’s honestly painful to watch.
B) a whole bunch of really cheap “he’s a homosexual isn’t it hilarious” jokes which are peppered all the way through.
C) the odd dated racial joke (not exactly racist, but “of its time”).

The problem is that because the episodes had half hour plots you can’t edit the dodgy/unfunny bits out and just show the good bits like Monty Python. And because the target audience was family viewing it’s less easy to put up a disclaimer of “this programme reflects the language and attitudes of its time” at the front and leave the viewers to it - that only really works for adult viewers.