Graeme Garden, as a Beefeater in The Goodies (TV series) episode The Tower of London

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Education and comedy

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Graeme Garden went to Repton School, Derbyshire and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which he became President in 1964), and performed with the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This article is about the Scottish city. ... Overview The Arch, Repton School Repton School, founded in 1557, is a public school in Derbyshire, England. ... Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Full name Emmanuel College Motto - Named after Immanuel Previous names - Established 1584 Sister College(s) Exeter College Master The Lord Wilson of Dinton Location Regent Street Undergraduates 494 Postgraduates 98 Homepage Boatclub Emmanuel front court and the Wren chapel Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge... The ADC Theatre is the home of the Footlights. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ...

Garden qualified in medicine at King's College Hospital in London, and he and Bill Oddie co-wrote several of the episodes of the television comedy series Doctor in the House — they co-wrote most of the first season episodes of the series — and co-wrote all of the second season episodes of the series. Later, Garden also wrote for Surgical Spirit (1994). Graeme Garden has also presented three series of the BBC's health magazine Bodymatters. Kings College Hospital, Ruskin Wing Kings College Hospital first opened in 1840 close to Lincolns Inn Fields and within two years was treating 1290 inpatients in 120 beds. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Bill Oddie William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ... Doctor in the House was a British television comedy series produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970. ... This article is about the sitcom. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ...

Graeme Garden was co-writer and performer in the classic BBC radio comedy show, I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (ISIRTA) (1965-1970 and 1973). Garden was studying medicine during the early seasons of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, and this commitment made it difficult for him to be a member of the cast during the third season because of a midwifery medical course in Plymouth. However, he kept on sending scripts for the radio show by mail — and rejoined the cast of ISIRTA upon his return to his medical studies in London. Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches, and many other forms of comedy found on other mediums. ... Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running BBC radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University Footlights revue Cambridge Circus. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Plymouth is a city in the southwest of England, or alternatively the Westcountry, and is situated within the traditional county of Devon. ...

On television Graeme Garden was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn. Twice a Fortnight, which was made in 1967, was a British sketch comedy television comedy series with Terry Jones. ... Bill Oddie William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ... Terence Graham Parry Jones (born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on February 1, 1942) is a British comedian, screenwriter and actor, film director, childrens author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. ... Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born May 5, 1943) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries. ... Jonathan Lynn (born April 3, 1943), is a British actor and comedy writer. ...

Later, he was co-writer and performer in the comedy series Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor (Bill Oddie joined the series for the second season). Broaden Your Mind was a British television comedy series starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, joined by Bill Oddie for the second series. ... Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show Im Sorry I... Bill Oddie William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ...

Then Garden, along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie, became a co-writer and performer in the comedy series The Goodies (1970-1982). Later, he was the voice of the title character of "Bananaman", as well as "General Blight" and "Maurice of the Heavy Mob" in the children's animated television comedy series called Bananaman (1983), which also featured his fellow Goodies, Tim and Bill, and which parodied comic book super-heroes. Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show Im Sorry I... Bill Oddie William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE (born July 7, 1941 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester) is a comedy writer and performer, author, composer and musician. ... The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Bananaman is a British comic book fictional character. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Garden appeared with Tim Brooke-Taylor in the theatre production The Unvarnished Truth.

In 1982 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a 6-part science fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central and ITV. The show was set in an international space station in the near future. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... now. ... Astronauts was a British science fiction sitcom. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... The International Space Station in 2006 Computer-generated image of the completed International Space Station A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. ...

Graeme Garden is a permanent panellist on the long-running BBC Radio improvisation show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (ISIHAC) in a cast which includes Tim Brooke-Taylor. He also stars in and co-writes You'll Have Had Your Tea, a direct spin-off of ISIHAC, and has contributed to several books from the series including guides to the game Mornington Crescent. Garden is chair of the spoof radio game show Beat The Kids. Graeme Garden has also appeared on the UK version of the television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which has a similar format. He was also a co-writer of the BBC Radio 4 comedy "Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off". Cover for, Im Sorry I Havent a Clue Collection 1 (Volumes 1-3). From left-to-right, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton. ... Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 antidote to panel games Im Sorry I Havent A Clue. ... The Mornington Crescent tube station, the games namesake Mornington Crescent is a game created by Geoffrey Perkins and popularised by the BBC Radio 4 programme Im Sorry I Havent a Clue (ISIHAC). ... A game show involves members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... Beat The Kids is a spoof game show produced by BBC Radio 4. ... Whose Line Is It Anyway? (sometimes abbreviated to Whose Line?), is a short form improvisational comedy show. ... Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off is a British radio comedy from BBC Radio 4, written by Graeme Garden and Marcus Brigstocke. ...

He has a successful stage career, and has acted in several National Theatre productions, as well as London's West End. He has also acted in several BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series, and television drama including Peak Practice and Holby City. He appeared in Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, a spin off audio drama based on the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who by Big Finish Productions. The Royal National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge The Royal National Theatre is a building complex and theatre company located on the South Bank in London, England immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. ... The West End of London is part of the city centre of London in England. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Bang-Bang-a-Boom! is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ...

Graeme Garden also appeared in the political sitcom, Yes Minister in the role of Commander Forrest of the Special Branch in the episode The Death List, as well as appearing as a Television Presenter in the Doctor in the House episode, Doctor on the Box. Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... Doctor in the House was a British television comedy series produced by London Weekend Television from 1969 to 1970. ...

Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire game show If I Ruled the World. Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode, and during the game "I Couldn't Disagree More" he proposed that it was high time The Goodies episodes were repeated. Garden was obliged by the rules of the game to refute this statement, and replied "I couldn't disagree more...it was time to repeat them ten, fifteen years ago." This was followed by uproarious applause from the studio audience. (The BBC's long-time refusal to re-broadcast episodes of The Goodies has been very unpopular with the viewing public.) If I Ruled the World is a song, originally from the West End musical, Pickwick, based on Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers. ...

In 2004, Garden and Brooke-Taylor were co-presenters of Channel 4's daytime game show Beat the Nation, in which they indulged in usual game show "banter", but took the quiz itself seriously. Oddie hosts a very successful series of nature programmes for the BBC. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Channel 4 is a public-service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... A game show involves members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... Beat The Nation was a quiz show on the UK commercial channel Channel 4 that ran for just one series in early 2004. ...

Graeme Garden also writes and directs for the corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring John Cleese. Video Arts is a company that produces humerous training videos for companies. ... John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty. ...

Currently (2006), Graeme Garden's voice is featured in the irreverent animated comedy series about a horrifically bad London comprehensive high school, Bromwell High. Garden has recently written a play called The Pocket Orchestra which ran in London from the 26th of April 2006 till the 20th of May 2006. Bromwell High is an animated series about a British high school in South London. ... The Pocket Orchestra is a play written by Goodies legend Graeme Garden, with the music scored by Callum McLeod. ...

In June 2006, Garden became a panellist on the new BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show, The Unbelievable Truth, starring, among others, Jeremy Hardy and Andy Hamilton. It is due for broadcast later in 2006. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The Unbelievable Truth is a BBC radio comedy panel game devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith. ... Jeremy Hardy (born 17 July 1961) is a British alternative comedian. ... Andy Hamilton is a British comedian, game show panelist, director and comedy scriptwriter for television and radio. ...

In August 2006, Garden and Brooke-Taylor joined up to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe in a show which looked back with some nostalgia to their work with the Goodies and in light entertainment. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A street performer on the Royal Mile, with volunteer (2004). ...

He also appeared on the comedy quiz show QI in November 2006. QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show hosted by Stephen Fry and shown on BBC Two and BBC Four. ...

Other information

Graeme Garden lives in Oxfordshire with his family; his leisure interests include painting and playing the banjo. Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... A four-string banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African origin, early or original examples sometimes being called the gourd banjo. One predecessor to the banjo is called the Akonting. ...

His son John Garden has played keyboard for the music group Scissor Sisters. The Scissor Sisters are an American band who formed in 2001, whose style draws from disco, glam-rock/pop and the gay-club scene of New York City. ...

Further reading

Further information about Graeme Garden can be found in the following books:

• From Fringe to Flying Circus — 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980' — Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.

• Footlights! — 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' — Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983.

Bibliography

(incomplete list)

• The Best Medicine — Graeme Garden's Book of Medical Humour
• The Skylighters
• The Seventh Man
• Graeme Garden's Compendium of Very Silly Games
• Stolvold's Mornington Crescent Almanac

Graeme Garden also co-wrote the following books with the other members of The Goodies The Goodies — Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden — a screenshot from the title sequence of the BBC TV series For information about the The Goodies television series, see The Goodies (TV series) The Goodies are a trio of British comedians (Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie), who...

• The Goodies File
• The Goodies Book of Criminal Records
• The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie

Reference

• CV from RDF Management

Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and as one of the panel members of the comedy radio show Im Sorry I... The elected leader of Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is known as the Footlights President. ... Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and writer of comedic songs. ...

External links

• BBC's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue homepage
• Graeme Garden at the Internet Movie Database
• Graeme Garden — BBC Guide to Comedy
• Graeme Garden - Comedy Zone
• Graeme Garden interview
• Graeme Garden — The Gazetteer for Scotland
• Graeme Garden — at TV.com
• ISIHAC interviews — with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Barry Cryer
• The Origin of Monty Python — mentions Graeme and ISIRTA

• "Stuff What Dreams are Made Of" - the 1964 Cambridge Footlights Club revue during the time when Graeme Garden was President of the Footlights, as well as being a member of the revue cast)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
Tim Brooke-Taylor — John Cleese — Graeme Garden — David Hatch — Jo Kendall — Bill Oddie
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Tim Brooke-Taylor — Barry Cryer — Graeme Garden — Humphrey Lyttelton — Willie Rushton — Colin Sell
Twice a Fortnight
Tony Buffery — Graeme Garden — Terry Jones — Jonathan Lynn — Bill Oddie — Michael Palin

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The Goodies — Bill Oddie,
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden

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