Tim Brooke-Taylor, Comedian
British performer Tim Brooke-Taylor, a member of comedy trio the Goodies, died after contracting the new coronavirus. He was 79.
Brooke-Taylor’s agent says he died the morning of April 12 “from COVID-19.”
Brooke-Taylor was part of Cambridge University’s Footlights revue, the breeding ground of several generations of British comic talent.
He broke into radio and television comedy in the 1960s alongside future Monty Python members John Cleese and Graham Chapman.
Brooke-Taylor went on to form The Goodies with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. The trio specialized in slightly surreal sketches incorporating visual inventiveness, slapstick and songs. Their song Funky Gibbon even became a U.K. top 10 chart hit in 1975. Their TV show, which ran throughout the 1970s, was a hit in Brita...