Graeme Garden
- 81 years old
- Scottish
- Actor, writer, comedian and script editor
Press clippings
Graeme Garden wins Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Audio Awards
The winners at the BBC Audio Drama Awards include Graeme Garden, Sarah Keyworth, Where To, Mate?, Trust, Mark Heap and Cracking.
British Comedy Guide, 25th March 2024ISIHAC: how radio's smuttiest show has beaten the censors for 50 years
Innuendo, tone-deaf singing and dreadful wages: as the cherished BBC panel game celebrates its half century, we look back at its finest moments - and its future.
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 11th April 2022The Goodies to return in book form
In 2019, The Goodies reunited to record a brand-new adventure for Audible, under the guidance of producer Barnaby Eaton-Jones - who gently persuaded them to get back on their trandem bicycle.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th January 2022Graeme Garden on Barry Cryer: "I will miss his laugh hugely. Won't we all"
The I Sorry I Haven't Got A Clue star remembers his friend and writing partner, who has passed away aged 86.
Graeme Garden, The Telegraph, 27th January 2022Golden oldies winning TV ratings war
Despite some episodes being more than 50 years old, classic Home Guard comedy Dad's Army repeated for the umpteenth time on BBC Two still attracts more than 1.1million viewers and, on a typical day, is the channel's most-watched programme.
Richard Webber, The Daily Express, 6th April 2021Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020 winners
After Life, Staged, Horrible Histories, Would I Lie To You?, Taskmaster and Inside No. 9 have won prizes in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020. Radio 4 comedies Michael Spicer: Before Next Door, Dead Ringers, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue and Joe Lycett's Obsessions have also won.
British Comedy Guide, 8th February 2021Radio Times poll of best radio comedies
Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue has come top of a Radio Times list of the greatest radio comedy shows.
British Comedy Guide, 17th November 2020Graeme Garden looks back on The Goodies
Golden Goodies: Graeme Garden looks back on a sitcom that did anything, anywhere, any time.
Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 1st November 2020Slapstick Festival online events during August
Bristol's annual Slapstick festival of silent and classic comedy is adding a choice of celebrity-led live online events to the series of archive treasures it has been sharing via its YouTube channel since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th July 2020Ten comics who donned blackface
Keith Lemon creator Leigh Francis last week apologised for mimicking black celebrities including Michael Jackson and Craig David on Bo' Selecta! 'I've been talking to some people,' he said in a tearful statement in the wake of the intensifying Black Lives Matter campaign. 'I didn't realise how offensive it was back then.' But he's far from the only comedian to flirt with blackface, long after its racism became apparent.
Chortle, 8th June 2020