In Australia the Goodies was aired at 5pm and followed by The Kenny Everett Video Show, What a great way to spend time winding down after a stressful day at primary school. R.I.P. Tim
I grew up with these guys and loved the absolute silliness of each of the shows. I now have introduced my kids to The Goodies and they too love the absurdity. British comedy from the 70s and 80s are timeless
Goodies and Python are both genius. You don't have to pick. The Goodies (since that is the subject of the video) were and are the pinnacle of humour. I think Tim's death hit me harder than almost any other (him and Elizabeth Sladen). I was SO lucky to see them when they came to Australia - twice (Bill only once).
Was in the audience! A real pleasure to see them all in person and delighted to see this uploaded (even if I already have this on DVD!). There's a second half to the evening, with a Q&A session. Unsurprisingly, Bill DOES do most of the talking, but Tim & Graham were happy to let him, and it's not as though he didn't have anything interesting to say :) I always felt Bill was the spokesman of the trio, with Graham having a huge amount of input to their inventiveness and imaginative qualities, and with Tim just being the fun, relaxed and up-for-anything element - "Adorably silly" as Graham described him in a tribute after his death. So happy to have been there
You were so lucky to be there, can never happen now. They all seem so genuine and seem to get along. My brother and I were massive fans as kids, they are probably the reason I'm quite silly still to this day 🤣
I grew up in the 00s, and as a child, my dad used to stick on old vhs tapes of The Goodies, and they became my favourite show!! I can't help but smile watching this. These three blokes have brought so much laughter into my childhood and still continue to now! I have two young daughters now, and they love The Goodies! Rest in peace, Tim Brooke-Taylor!!
Can we take a step back and appreciate that the greatest intellectual comedian of the past 25 years KNOWS and appreciates that The Goodies were comedy geniuses…And this, hilarious interview is the consequence!!!……God Bless you (beautiful) all!……🤗
Can we take a step back and appreciate how humble the most overrated ,arrogant,pretentious stand-up is being in front of 3 more highly educated,influential,funny and genuinely nice people who could rip him apart comedically has been.
Book-learned communists who hate the working classes as lower order humanity and are uncritical minions of woke-wash corporate/banking Power Elites can never be funny.
Watched the original series back in the 70's, owned the vhs, later dvds.. Always have me laughing, Goodie Goodie yum yum! Awesome trio, thanks for cheering up my childhood guys!
Born 74; The Goodies, Kenny and proper Dr Who were part of this era for me. And they all blended together somehow, like an injection of British humour and culture I seemed to be missing as an Australian. Didn't always make me popular with the other kids, lol, but I formed my own group of slightly unusual friends and had a great time imagination wise. I'll also throw Catweazle and Worzel in there, all great influences. Also it was a bit weird for Australia cos we'd get things like Dr Who later than England, and then they'd just repeat everything. I didn't even have any clear idea of what story followed what, till the 83 Dr Anniversary Special...until then it was like...ABC will just loop Jon and Tom endlessly... @@Yxalitis
8:43 BILL: "We were always getting this thing about _"Python"_ or us, and the ridiculous thing was that there were a lot of people felt they had to make a choice. You know, watch them both for Christ's sake!" GRAEME: "It was like, you know, do you prefer _The Beatles........_ or _The Goodies?"_ 😂😂🤣🤣
Always preferred The Goodies over Python - So much funnier, IMO. Lovely, lovely blokes and still so hilarious! Thank you Gentlemen, for lightening my life. Live long, and prosper. :)
Echoing other comments, RU-vid showed me this today, and I obviously watched it. Oh, and Stewart Lee is hosting? Well now there’s NO WAY I’m going to miss this, and I watched it immediately. And if you’re reading this, you’ve watched it too. So what more can be said? Other than, I guess, that it was really funny! This was a delicious, unexpected treat!
a very much part of my childhood years, the 70s , every afternoon after a big play session at the park, totally loved them, brought tears and lovely memories of my yester years, watching this, thanks so much for this postGOODIES FAN FOREVER and ALWAYS
Got to be the first time Ive ever seen Stewart Lee fanboying but who could blame him? These guys were huge in Australia where all of Generation Y grew up on goodies repeats in the 1980s years after they'd finished, these guys and Dr Who were some of my first introductions to British culture.
@@sfdntk never heard of him, but yes I'm sure Stewart has his heroes just like anyone else. I guess I was surprised here because Stewart's heroes would tend to be more obscure people, the goodies was a very mainstream program before this I would've guessed Stewart turning his nose up at the silliness of it.
@@user-et6pj4db9s The character of Stewart Lee definitely would, he'd be jealous of their success and dismissive of their contribution to satire, but I can see why real life Stewart Lee adores them, they really changed the game for satire and comedy in the UK. And I would really recommend you watch Lee's documentary on Ted Chippington, he's a fascinating character and it's so glaringly obvious how influential he was on Lee's style. I had never heard of him either until watching the documentary, he had faded into obscurity (or perhaps further into obscurity) before I was even born, but I fell in love with him the moment I saw him perform on stage.
@@sfdntk I thought about it and actually I have seen that doc you're talking about, that'd be the obscure guy I was thinking of, so obscure I'd forgotten I'd even seen him lol
@@user-et6pj4db9s haha, "obscure" is definitely the word that best describes Chippington! He really is a singular talent, nobody in the world would have picked him to be a comedian and yet somehow his work inspired some of the most famous and talented satirists of the alternative comedy scene.
I recently found out that Tim Brooke Taylor used to live in the house my in laws own. I grew up with the Goodies such a great laugh it shaped my sense of humour. E cky 😅 thump
I have all 3 books in hard back as well as the 5 albums , all great fun. They were a great team, just mad silly fun. Meet Tim and Graham when came to Oz back a few years now was when tge series first came out on dvd, RIP Tim.
I had the pleasure to be in the audience that night (and this was only the first section), and Tim & Graham seemed more than happy to let the naturally enthusiastic and talkative Bill do the speaking. If he had nothing interesting to say, I'd agree, but he had plenty of fascinating insights :) So pleased to have seen them in person, especially before the sad loss of Tim
I'm suspecting the reference to "philosophers" might be about a certain song. I must admit, the Goodies were a gateway drug for me - the Goodies led me to Python
Sudden memory of the seance episode. Knock knock. Who's there? Wendy. Wendy who? (Bill under the table sings:) Wendy red red robin comes bob bob bobbing along. I was young. First time I'd heard that one.
Have all 3 the other 2 are great as well The Goodies Book of Criminal Records and The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie. and also the 5 Lps they made. Great fun. Meet Tim abd Graham back a few years when toured here unfortunity Bill could nit come but had him on a satelite link on a screen, great anicdotes. RIP Tim.
@@snafu2350Yes l have been listening to every episode there is obtainable on YT, though the very early ones are a hundred miles away from slick well paced to me best ones starting around 20th series, the first ones are very faded slow and the mikes buzzy, you can still pick out some good stuff. Long may it continue.
thankyou for sharing this with the world, these men somewhat mitigated the sadness of abuse i endured as a little boy, they were an island of temporary escape. RIP tim , killed by china ( the wuhan flu)
As someone who had the privilege to be in the audience that night (so happy to see this on RU-vid!), this video was only half of the evening, with a question and answer session filling the second half. If Bill had said things of zero interest, yes, that would have been annoying, but the absolute opposite was true. Tim & Graham were also more than happy to let Bill answer the questions and do the talking, with Tim often elaborating on answers Bill had given, whereas Graham seemed very relaxed, largely sitting it out, but coming in with a sharp one-liner or nugget of wisdom. I always felt Tim was the fun of the Goodies, Graham was the inventiveness of the Goodies and Bill was the heart of the Goodies! Anyway, it was a lovely evening (The Leicester Square Theatre, even if the bar wasn't cheap!) and so strange to see three people who were adults but felt like childhood friends :)
