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Tim Brooke-Taylor was in The Heart of British comedy for More Than six Decades - with His words, wit and quickfire japery make millions of people laugh.

His comedic roots in the Cambridge Footlights, where His time John Cleese and the two men, who he later collaborated with on the TV Show The Goodies -Graeme Garden , and Bill Oddie . were enjoyed

He began His broadcasting career on BBC radio, quickly develop a reputation as an actor and screenwriter.

Probably best known As One of The Members of the anarchic Goodies, he's also a longtime discussion, was a participant in Radio 4 's I'm sorry, I Have no idea.

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, born in Buxton, Derbyshire, on 17 Jul 1940. His 59-year-old father, a lawyer and local coroner, who had been wounded in The First World War and served in the Home Guard at Tim, His third child was born.

"I was a mistake, as far as I can see," Brooke-Taylor later recalled.

His father died when he was just 13, and His Mother , who was in her 40s at The Time , got a job as a school matron.

After attending the prep school, the young Brooke-Taylor was off Packed to Winchester, before he read up to Pembroke College , Cambridge, to the right.

Brooke-Taylor, in the glasses, with the occupation of the Cambridge Footlights Review

The intention was that he would enter The Family firm, but fate intervened when he himself sharing digs with a fellow student, John Cleese .

the membership of the Cambridge Footlights Club brought him in contact with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie , as well as future Python Graham Chapman .

None of them had no thought of the career in Show business, see the spotlight as a way to have some fun before facing The World of work.

Dali encounter

Brooke-Taylor was in the spotlight President, when, in 1963, your revue entitled Originally , A collection of plinths - went down a storm at the Edinburgh Festival.

It opened in the West End a year later, embarking on a tour in Australia and New Zealand , finally landing on Broadway in 1964.

Brooke-Taylor, later recalled in a New York night club, where he met The Artist Salvador Dali .

I'm Reading about That Re-paved, he said The Way for Monty Python and The Goodies

"I started to talk to him about art", The Daily Telegraph's Neil Tweedie in 2012, admitting that he soon found himself completely out of His depth.

All thoughts of a career in Law quickly disappeared, as he began work on a BBC radio Show , I'm Sad that I Read That Again, The First broadcast in 1964.

Based on the ramp, and with its roots in early radio comedy shows, such as ITMA and Round the Horne, paved The Way for a variety of shows such as "Monty Python 's Flying Circus and The Goodies .

Brooke-Taylor wrote and performed in sketches, His tour De Force through the horrendous Lady Constance de blanket, their piercing cry of "Has anyone called?", it was one of The Highlights of The Show .

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He also made an appearance on television, as regularly in the program, the Braden Beat, where he played a right-wing conservative business man, so that The Audience benefit from what he thinks is His reasonable point of view. He would later incorporate it into His character, in The Goodies .

Brooke-Taylor again with Cleese and Chapman on ITV ' s Show At Last The 1948, a collection of sketches and quick-fire Repartee.

The First episode featured Four Yorkshiremen sketch, co-written by Brooke-Taylor, later to be revived by the Monty Python Team .

Hello Cheeky ran for Six Years on BBC Radio 2

The Four sat remember sipping expensive wine, if you lived in "a bag on a pile of garbage" or worked "23 hours A Day down in the mill for a penny every Four Years . "

Brooke-Taylor went on to write and perform, with Marty Feldman on His comedy Show Marty. There was also a brief spell working with Orson Welles on a film entitled, One Man Band, but it was never published.

"He saw something on TV and wanted to be with me for some reason. I spent 12 Days directing him because he trust the actual Director. "

The First episode of The Goodies was broadcast in 1970 with Brooke-Taylor appear alongside Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie , in a series that ran for 12 years, The First 10 on Bbc Two , before they bought out by London Weekend Television for ITV.

Patriotic words

A mixture of sketches and situation Comedy and slapstick made use of to films, the primitive Special Effects such as time lapse-up.

The often-surreal Show saw the three protagonists with the bike on a "trandem", trying to do Good Deeds . The memorable episodes include kitten Kong, with a huge predatory cat the fall of the Post Office Tower.

A special episode of this Show won the Silver Rose at Montreux (1972).

Its the Union Flag, a fixed size in The Goodies

Brooke-Taylor, specializing in a figure, was a vest, wearing a Union Flag waistcoat, to deliver often The Action pause Patriotic words on a background of Land of hope and glory.

"you have a right-wing neo-con loony. "Brooke-Taylor said in a 2005 radio interview. "And with a name like mine, I think I can The Revolutionary . "

The series created an unlikely hit, Funky Gibbon, carried out the three on Top of The Pops .

In 1971 he had a brief role in The Film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , where he played a Computer Scientist .

Cameo roles

A year later, he entered the body of the Radio 4 antidote to panel games, I'm sorry, I Have no idea where he is to a fixed size over the following four Decades .

He played with John Junkin and Barry Cryer Hello Cheeky , a Sketch Show on BBC Radio 2 , before finally moving to Yorkshire Television.

Together with Graeme, he Garden voices for The Bbc cartoon series Bananaman .

He was a regular on I'm sorry, I Have no idea

Brooke-Taylor appeared in A Number of cameo roles over The Years in shows like "One Foot in The Grave , heartbeat, and Agatha Christie 's Marple.

In 2013, he appeared in antics in the animal, a parody news program, in which he was dressed in the rule being upstaged by A Man , like a dog, and His last TV appearance as an actor was in The Bbc One Medical drama Doctors in the year 2015.

In 2011, he and His fellow Goodies star garden were both appointed OBEs for services and entertainment. Oddie, The Third member of The Trio , was honored to-eight years previously for His services to wildlife conservation.

After the visit of Buckingham Palace , the honour by The Prince of Wales, Brooke-Taylor "had admitted you to bite the tongue" after you made fun of the ease with which the honors were handed out in the 1970s.

Tim Brooke-Taylor was one of a group of writers and artists that changed The Face of British TV and radio comedy, so programs that have become classics and their time.

in Essence, a gentle and sensitive man, he admitted once, had its own Living Room , when The Weekly results were announced, on Strictly Come Dancing , as he could not bear to see anyone thrown out of the series.

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