Tim Brooke-Taylor
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
Press clippings
ISIHAC: 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 2022Tim Brooke-Taylor left just £2,000
Tim Brooke-Taylor left just £2,000 after his death last year, it has been revealed today.
Chortle, 26th May 2021Best of 2020: Comedy
Outdoor venues and podcasts to the rescue.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 30th December 2020Tim Brooke-Taylor hated his character in The Goodies
As the late comedian's final episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is aired, his former co-star looks back fondly on their early 'disasters'.
Graeme Garden, The Telegraph, 7th December 2020Radio 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 2020Rory Bremner hails lost funnyman Tim Brooke-Taylor
When he was a schoolboy in Edinburgh, Rory Bremner queued to have his Goodies album signed.
Murray Scougall, The Sunday Post, 13th 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 2020Tim Brooke-Taylor: equally at home with witty and zany
He found TV fame with The Goodies and was a mainstay of Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Russell Parton, The Independent, 22nd April 2020Obituary: Tim Brooke-Taylor
Actor and writer who helped shape modern comedy.
The Scotsman, 15th April 2020