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MAIDENHEAD ADVERTISER – 15th March 2007
(Lisa Manekofsky – 15th Mar)
Tim's return to the Goodie old days
Written by Editorial on 15th March 2007
TELEVISION comedy was never the same after they stormed the scene with their anarchic 1970s show.
Their surreal sketches and manic individual performances brought them international acclaim and personal fortune.
Now the Goodies are back, with a 24-night tour that arrives in Windsor on Sunday night.
Tim Brooke-Taylor, one of the Goodies and a long-term Cookham resident, said performing in front of a home crowd will be a nerve-wracking experience.
He said: "So many people have said to me that they are coming to see me that I am slightly nervous. They are all very loyal and they will all be buying tickets."
The tour comes to Britain on the back of two sold-out trips to Australia in 2005 and rave Edinburgh Festival reviews last year.
Brooke-Taylor said: "It is thanks to Australia that we are doing anything at all.
"Because they had faith in it, we sold out in huge theatres. The difference is, of course that, they have gone on showing the programme on television. "Although I know we've got a good show, we are pitching it to a different audience here, and we're having to say 'look, we think this is good'."
Brooke-Taylor said the tour, which goes on the road without founding member Bill Oddie, will be a celebration of the original television show – which often included routines filmed in Maidenhead.
Alongside Graeme Garden, he will be performing a selection of new sketches interspersed with clips from the original TV series.
The comic, who has lived in Cookham since 1983 and is president of the local branch of Relate, said today's comedians leave him feeling optimistic about
the future of British comedy. He said: "I'm very lucky because, on my radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, I've been able to ask people I like to join me. "They are people like Stephen Fry and Ross Noble, and you can tell they are people I admire because they end up on my team."
The Goodies Still Rule OK! comes to the Theatre Royal in Windsor on Sunday and to the Wycombe Swan on Saturday, March 24.
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