Tim Brooke-Taylor Photo: April 2000

Tim Brooke-Taylor (born July 17, 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire) 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 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Image File history File links Tim-Brooke-Taylor-photo-taken-during-April-2000. ... Image File history File links Tim-Brooke-Taylor-photo-taken-during-April-2000. ... Jump to: navigation, search July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England, the gateway to the Peak District National Park. ... Derbyshire (pronounced Dar-bee-shur) is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ... Jump to: navigation, search Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ... Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to the initialism ISIHAC, is a radio comedy programme that has had several series each year on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 7 and the BBCs World Service from April 11, 1972 to the present. ...

Tim Brooke-Taylor is the grandson of a parson who played centre-forward for England's football team in the 1890s. His mother was an international lacrosse player and his father a solicitor. Despite an expulsion from school at the early age of five and a half years, Tim studied at Winchester College and at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. There he read Economics and Law and mixed with other budding comedians, including John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, and Jonathan Lynn in the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which Tim became President in 1963). The Footlights Club revue, A Clump of Plinths was so successful during its Edinburgh Fringe Festival run, that the show was renamed as Cambridge Circus and the revue transferred to the West End in London, and then later taken to both New Zealand and Broadway. A parson is a member of the Protestant clergy. ... Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... Jump to: navigation, search High School lacrosse action. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... Jump to: navigation, search Full name Pembroke College Motto - Named after Countess of Pembroke, Mary de St Pol Previous names Marie Valence Hall (1347), Pembroke Hall (?), Pembroke College (1856) Established 1347 Sister College Queens College Master Sir Richard Dearlove Location Pembroke Street Undergraduates ~420 Graduates 194 Homepage Boatclub Pembroke... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) - Economics material from the organization... Aphorism Critical legal studies Jurisprudence Law (principle) Legal research Letter versus Spirit List of legal abbreviations Legal code Natural justice Natural law Philosophy of law Religious law External links Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Law Look up law on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jump to: navigation, search John Cleese as Q in Die Another Day. ... Chapman in one of his calmer moments Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was a British comedian and writer. ... Bill Oddie William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, MA (Cantab. ... Jonathan Lynn (born April 3, 1943), is a British actor and comedy writer. ... Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, run by the students of Cambridge University. ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ... Cambridge Circus is a comedy revue that played in London in the 1960s. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...

Tim Brooke-Taylor moved swiftly into BBC Radio with the fast-paced comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read that Again in which he performed and co-wrote. As the screeching eccentric Lady Constance de Coverlet, he could be relied upon to generate the loudest audience response of many programmes in this long-running series merely with her unlikely catchphrase "did somebody call?" uttered after a comic and transparent feed-line, as their adventure story reached its climax or cliffhanger ending. Other members of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again were John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, David Hatch and Jo Kendall. Jump to: navigation, search Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus. ... A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in which a movie or novel contains an abrupt ending, often leaving the main characters in a precarious or difficult situation (for instance, hanging from the edge of a cliff). ... Im Sorry, Ill Read That Again was a long-running radio comedy programme that originally grew out of the Cambridge University revue Cambridge Circus. ... David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British comedy writer and performer. ... Sir David Hatch attended the University of Cambridge, where he was also a member of the prestigious Cambridge Footlights Club. ... Jo Kendall is a British actress. ...

Tim also appeared in Hello, Cheeky!, a stand up comedy show also starring Barry Cryer and John Junkin. "Hello, Cheeky!" was performed for both radio and television. Hello, Cheeky! was a series broadcast on BBC Radio 2 between 1973 and 1979. ... Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ... Barry Cryer (born March 23, 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a writer and comedian. ... John Junkin, born January 29, 1930 in Ealing, Middlesex, England is a British radio, television and film performer. ...

Tim also worked with his fellow Goodies on the animated television comedy series Bananaman, in which Tim was the narrator, as well as voicing the characters of "King Zorg of the Nurks", "Eddie the Gent, "Auntie" and "Appleman". 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 fictional character. ...

Other BBC radio programmes in which Tim played a part include On the Braden Beat with Canadian Bernard Braden, and the self-styled "antidote to panel games" I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue. Bernard Braden was a Canadian, actor and comedian. ... Im Sorry I Havent A Clue, often abbreviated to the initialism ISIHAC, is a radio comedy programme which has been broadcast several times annually on BBC Radio 4 from April 11, 1972 to the present. ...

Television sketch comedy series included: At Last the 1948 Show (with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman), and
Marty (with Marty Feldman, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod), and Broaden Your Mind (with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie). From top to bottom: Aimi MacDonald, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and John Cleese. ... Actor Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein (1974) Marty Feldman (July 8, 1933–December 2, 1982). ... John Junkin, born January 29, 1930 in Ealing, Middlesex, England is a British radio, television and film performer. ... David Graeme Garden (born February 18, 1943 in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British comedy writer and performer. ... Bill Oddie William Edgar (Bill) Oddie, OBE, MA (Cantab. ...

Tim has also appeared in British sitcoms, including You Must Be The Husband with Diane Keen, and Me & My Girl with Richard O'Sullivan. He also appeared as the nervous computer programmer in the movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder. A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. ... Jump to: navigation, search Richard OSullivan (born Chiswick, London, May 7, 1944) is a British actor, notable for his sitcom roles in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 musical film based on the 1964 childrens book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by British author Roald Dahl. ... Gene Wilder Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American actor, who has starred in more than thirty movies. ...

Tim Brooke-Taylor was co-author, with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, which was written for their television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show. The "Four Yorkshiremen sketch" was performed during Amnesty concert performances (by members of Monty Python - one time including Rowan Atkinson in place of a Monty Python member), as well as being performed during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and record albums (and now on CDs). This has led to the inevitable result of the "Four Yorkshiremen sketch" now being considered a Monty Python sketch, with the origin of the sketch, and the co-authorship of the sketch by non-Monty Python writers Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, being unfortunately overlooked, or forgotten, by many people. Jump to: navigation, search John Cleese as Q in Die Another Day. ... Chapman in one of his calmer moments Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 – October 4, 1989) was a British comedian and writer. ... Actor Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein (1974) Marty Feldman (July 8, 1933–December 2, 1982). ... The Four Yorkshiremen sketch was originally written for the British television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show, and was co-written by the shows four writers/performers John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman. ... From top to bottom: Aimi MacDonald, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and John Cleese. ... Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion) is an act of grace by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rowan Atkinson as Edmund Blackadder. ... Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a film from 1982 in which the Monty Python team perform many of their greatest sketches and skits in the Hollywood Bowl, including a couple of pre-python skits. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... Actor Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstein (1974) Marty Feldman (July 8, 1933–December 2, 1982). ...

Tim Brooke-Taylor remains a well-spoken, instantly recognisable, radio and stage actor and has appeared on stage in Australia and England, usually as a middle-class Englishman. Around 1982, he branched-out into pantomime as the Dame in Dick Whittington. He is also the author (and co-author) of several humorous books based mainly around his radio and television work and the sports of golf and cricket. Tim also took part in the Pro-Celebrity Golf television series. Dick Whittington is a character in British pantomime, very loosely based on the real-life Richard Whittington. ... Jump to: navigation, search Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is a sport where individual players or teams hit a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... Jump to: navigation, search A cricket match in progress. ...

Tim Brooke-Taylor has served the University of St Andrews as Rector and is an honorary Vice-President of Derby County F.C.. The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410 and 1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland. ... Derby County F.C. is an English football club based in Derby, currently playing in the Football League Championship. ...

Further Reading

Further information about Tim Brooke-Taylor can be found in the following books:

• From Fringe to Flying Circus – 'Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy 1960-1980' – Roger Wilmot, Eyre Methuen Ltd, 1980.
• Footlights! – 'A Hundred Years of Cambridge Comedy' – Robert Hewison, Methuen London Ltd, 1983.

Bibliography

• Rule Britannia
• Tim Brooke-Taylor's Golf Bag
• Tim Brooke-Taylor's Cricket Box

Tim Brooke-Taylor also co-wrote the following books with the other members of The Goodies: Jump to: navigation, search The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ...

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

External links

• Tim Brooke-Taylor – BBC Guide to Comedy
• Tim Brooke-Taylor – The Museum of Broadcast Communication
• Tim Brooke-Taylor – London Speaker Bureau
• Tim Brooke-Taylor biography – Personally Speaking – Norman Phillips Organisation
• Tim Brooke-Taylor – First Person Quiz
• Tim Brooke-Taylor – BBC – I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue
• Tim Brooke-Taylor TV Comedy People
• Tim Brooke-Taylor – TV.com
• Tim Brooke-Taylor at the Internet Movie Database