Tim Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus

Posts : 4261 Join date : 2013-01-16

I don't know if he was known in America, but this one hurts me.

Goodies star Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus

Subject: Re: Tim Brooke-Taylor dies with coronavirus Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:17 am

Not familiar. Appears to be a "silly-costumes and sped-up footage" show along the lines of Benny Hill or early Monty Python.

Posts : 4261 Join date : 2013-01-16

Absurdist, like early Monty Python.

BBC wrote:: Brooke-Taylor's career spanned more than six decades and his comedic roots lay in the Cambridge Footlights Club, which he joined in 1960.

Membership of the Footlights brought him into contact with both Garden and Oddie as well as future Monty Python stars John Cleese and Graham Chapman.

Cleese paid tribute by saying: "Tim was one of my very oldest friends, and one that I used to love performing with. He did 'frightened' better than anyone...".

And another member of Monty Python, Eric Idle, revealed that his career was started in 1963 when he was auditioned by Brooke-Taylor for an annual comedy revue.

He was also very good on some radio shows, back in the days when we listened to radio for entertainment.