|
Post by Calidore on Apr 12, 2020 20:34:17 GMT -5
This probably won't mean anything to the Americans in the forum, but comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at 79 from coronavirus. Holy [bleep], what terrible news. It certainly means something to me. I've listened to nearly the entirety of both I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue (I'm several years behind on the latter) at least twice each and still enjoy dipping in occasionally. TBT was a brilliant comedian and easily shared the icon status of any of the Pythons. Huge, huge loss.
I wonder if ISIHAC can keep going. They'd pretty much have to find at least one new permanent panelist for Tim's side, as the only other options are to have two rotating guests with uncertain chemistry or split the Barry Cryer/Graeme Garden team. The latter, especially, would seem unthinkable.
|
|
|
Post by foxley on Apr 12, 2020 21:00:39 GMT -5
Was just logging on to post this sad new myself. Apparently The Goodies were better known and loved here in Australia than they were in their native UK, due to the show being seldom (if ever) repeated there, while it was on near constant repeat here on the ABC. RIP Tim. Thanks for all the laughs. My childhood would have been very different without your work.
P.S.: Americans might recognise him as one of the cameos in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He is the blond man attempting to program a computer to predict the location of the next Golden Ticket, and then telling his computer exactly what it can do with lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate bars.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Apr 12, 2020 22:01:14 GMT -5
This probably won't mean anything to the Americans in the forum, but comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at 79 from coronavirus. To anyone in the UK over the age of 40, Tim Brooke-Taylor was a beloved comedy treasure due to his having been one of The Goodies, along with Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. This anarchic, madcap trio were hugely popular on British TV in the 1970s and early 1980s, with millions tuning in to watch their show every week. They also had a number of novelty hit singles on the British charts, including "Do The Funky Gibbon", "The Inbetweenies", and "The Goodies Theme". Following the end of the show in 1982, Brooke-Taylor became a long-standing panellist on BBC Radio 4's ever popular show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. But it is for The Goodies that he will be best remembered. I've watched some old episodes of The Goodies in recent years on YouTube and, to be honest, the humour doesn't really hold up all that well. Nevertheless, the show was a favourite of mine as a child and their surreal brand of comedy made quite an impression on me as a young boy. For millions of people in the UK, the show's opening title sequence -- especially that giant pussycat climbing up the Post Office Tower in London -- is synonymous with the 1970s and a nostalgic reminder of a time long since passed. RIP Tim and thanks for the laughs. Oh, many of us knew him. The Goodies was shown on some PBS stations, plus the Secret Policeman's Ball Amnesty International functions where he appeared. But, to a generation of us, we will remember him as the computer programmer in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory... Funny, funny man and a gentle soul....
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2020 22:04:25 GMT -5
This probably won't mean anything to the Americans in the forum, but comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at 79 from coronavirus. To anyone in the UK over the age of 40, Tim Brooke-Taylor was a beloved comedy treasure due to his having been one of The Goodies, along with Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. This anarchic, madcap trio were hugely popular on British TV in the 1970s and early 1980s, with millions tuning in to watch their show every week. They also had a number of novelty hit singles on the British charts, including "Do The Funky Gibbon", "The Inbetweenies", and "The Goodies Theme". Following the end of the show in 1982, Brooke-Taylor became a long-standing panellist on BBC Radio 4's ever popular show, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. But it is for The Goodies that he will be best remembered. I've watched some old episodes of The Goodies in recent years on YouTube and, to be honest, the humour doesn't really hold up all that well. Nevertheless, the show was a favourite of mine as a child and their surreal brand of comedy made quite an impression on me as a young boy. For millions of people in the UK, the show's opening title sequence -- especially that giant pussycat climbing up the Post Office Tower in London -- is synonymous with the 1970s and a nostalgic reminder of a time long since passed. RIP Tim and thanks for the laughs. saw this earlier, and was a bit too gutted to talk about it. was a HUGE "Goodies" fan, from when they used to show it on PBS in the early 80's was appointment television for my Grandmother and I.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Apr 12, 2020 22:05:53 GMT -5
And there is his work on At Last the 1948 Show....
|
|
shaxper
CCF Site Custodian
Posts: 22,406
|
Post by shaxper on Apr 12, 2020 22:44:22 GMT -5
This probably won't mean anything to the Americans in the forum, but comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at 79 from coronavirus. I know him, but I have no idea where I know him from. Edit:Was just logging on to post this sad new myself. Apparently The Goodies were better known and loved here in Australia than they were in their native UK, due to the show being seldom (if ever) repeated there, while it was on near constant repeat here on the ABC. RIP Tim. Thanks for all the laughs. My childhood would have been very different without your work. P.S.: Americans might recognise him as one of the cameos in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He is the blond man attempting to program a computer to predict the location of the next Golden Ticket, and then telling his computer exactly what it can do with lifetime supply of Wonka chocolate bars.
Yup. I was thinking that was him, and then deciding, "That's ridiculous. No way my memory is that specific and accurate." Thanks for validating my inner thoughts, there.
|
|
Confessor
CCF Mod Squad
Not Bucky O'Hare!
Posts: 9,584
|
Post by Confessor on Apr 13, 2020 4:04:02 GMT -5
Ah, I'm glad to see that I was wrong and you guys do know who Tim Brooke-Taylor is.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Apr 13, 2020 11:10:27 GMT -5
Public Broadcasting stations in the early-mid 70s, started buying large amounts of programming from the UK, which led to Monty Python, the Goodies and numerous other comedies being broadcast in the evening hours (daytime was educational stuff, like Sesame Street, The Electric Company and Mister Rogers Neighborhood) and the evening was used for cultural programming (including concerts, plays, documentaries, community affairs). Masterpiece Theater would show episodes from dramas, with Upstairs,Downstairs and Brideshead Revisited being very popular, p[lus numerous other series and mini-series. Mystery was a showcase for the various detective series from the BBC and ITV, including Rumpole, Inspector Morse, Sherlock Holmes, A Touch of Frost, Miss Marple, Poirot, Cracker, Prime Suspect and others.
Our local PBS station was run by the Univ. of Illinois, in Urbana and had comedies on Saturday evenings, and Doctor Who on week nights. Later, they ran Are You Being Served? Nightly and had a bloc of Britcoms on Saturday evening. That is where I saw stuff like The Good Life/Good Neighbors, Keeping Up Appearances, doctor in the House, Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister, As Time Goes By, May to December, Mulberry, Bless Me Father, Red Dwarf, To The Manor Born, The Bounder, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and The Goodies.
Masterpiece Theater also brought some comedies, like the Jeeves and Wooster series, plus things like the Sharpe series, with Sean Bean.
We're a select audience, compared to mainstream tv show, like Friends or Game of Thrones; but, we are devoted to quality British tv product. Tim Brooke-Taylor also featured much in books and documentaries about Monty Python, since he worked with many of them at Cambridge and At Last the 1948 Show, Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Secret Policeman's Ball. Willy Wonka was a holiday staple, in the 70s, so that is our greatest exposure to his work. The Goodies was a little more select in distribution, compared to Python. Bananaman was shown, for a short period, alongside Danger Mouse, on Nickelodeon, in the late 80s, where he, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie did voicework.
|
|
|
Post by codystarbuck on Apr 13, 2020 12:45:33 GMT -5
From The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
And doing "Girlfriend in a Coma," to "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"
|
|
|
Post by beccabear67 on Apr 13, 2020 20:47:12 GMT -5
I liked Brooke-Taylor best in the 1948 Show (and that one Do Not Adjust)... wish even more episodes would turn up! We had The Goodies airing for many years (also On The Buses reruns), but I was never a huge fan for it. Also Neil Innes spoiled me for other parodists in song perhaps. I never have managed to see Bananaman but have been informed about it a few times. Sad news in any case.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2020 13:18:43 GMT -5
Two deaths form the world of baseball...
RIP to Hank Steinbrenner, co-owner of the NY Yankees. He was 63.
RIP to Jim Frey, former Cubs and Royals manager, he was 88.
-M
|
|
|
Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 16, 2020 11:26:03 GMT -5
R. I. P. Lee Konitz. Konitz was the last link to what would become known as The Birth of the Cool sessions, playing alto sax in the Miles Davis nonet for those sessions. Those sessions produced music that was seminal cool jazz. Konitz maintained his own style on alto when everyone else seemed to be being sucked into the wake of Charlie Parker.
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2020 12:45:31 GMT -5
RIP to Brian Dennehy, who passed at age 81. A versatile actor, he was known for his roles in Dynasty, Cocoon, First Blood and many more.
-M
|
|
|
Post by Prince Hal on Apr 16, 2020 13:15:00 GMT -5
RIP to Brian Dennehy, who passed at age 81. A versatile actor, he was known for his roles in Dynasty, Cocoon, First Blood and many more. -M Maybe 14 or 15 years ago, a group of us, including my younger son, IIRC, sat at the same (long) table in a pub as Dennehy and one of his good friends, actor Joe Grifasi, in Providence. They were talking to an actor friend of ours whom we were all going to see in Hamlet at Trinity Rep. Both Dennehy and Grifasi had connections there and were going to the show as well. Never said a word to either one, because it just wouldn't have been right. We knew Grifasi from a forgotten movie called Chances Are that starred Robert Downey, Jr. pre-chestplate. My actor friend had worked with Dennehy a few times and knew him pretty well and had been kind enough a few years earlier to take a couple of our young high school actors to see Dennehy in Boston in Death of a Salesman. Dennehy was classy and friendly to the two starstruck kids after the show. Always liked him before that and always think of his graciousness toward two aspiring actors whom he might have just given a perfunctory hello before running for his cab.
|
|
|
Post by brutalis on Apr 16, 2020 13:15:05 GMT -5
Dang another great one gone. Will miss and remember him and enjoy his movies and television appearances. Love Dennehy. Such a splendid nasty bad guy of the sort you kind of like but also glad to see get his just rewards. His nastiness in Silverado is just soooooo good.
|
|