Graeme Garden

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David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a British comedian, writer, artist, and television presenter best known as a founding member of The Goodies and as a cast member of The I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Early life and education

Garden was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and raised in Preston, Lancashire, England, with Robert Symon Garden (1910-1982), an eminent orthopaedic surgeon who developed the Garden classification of hip fractures, and his wife Janet Ann (née McHardy). John and Elizabeth, R. S. Garden's parents, were killed at Macduff, Banff, and Buchan, Aberdeenshire. Garden was educated at Repton School and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and served as its president in 1964 and participated in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as being involved in the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of.

At King's College London, the gardener studied medicine but has never practiced. When asked how he justified making jokes rather than saving lives, he replied: he laughed.

Personal life

Emma Garden and his son Tom are married in Oxfordshire, with whom he has a son. Sally and John are both siblings from Sally and John's previous marriage to Mary Elizabeth Wheatley Grice. John "JJ" Garden, the occasional keyboardist for Scissor Sisters, is a contributor to their 2006 album Ta-Dah.

In 2002, Garden suffered from Bell's palsy, in which the muscles on one side of the face became paralysed. After several months, he was able to resume his work duties and then recover fully.

In the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to light entertainment, Garden was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Garden is a patron of ENRYCH, the former Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers. Through joint participation with a volunteer, the charity helps adults with a physical disability enjoy culture, recreation, education, and sporting opportunities.

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Career

In the late 1960s, Garden co-writer and performer in the classic BBC radio comedy sketch show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again. Garden was studying medicine during the first few seasons of the series, but casting participation was difficult for him during the third season as he was following a midwifery course in Plymouth. Nevertheless, he continued delivering scripts for the radio show by mail, and when he returned to his medical studies in London, he rejoined the cast. His medical credentials have been criticized in the show on several occasions; David Hatch, the 25th anniversary show, asks him if he is still a writer. "Here's something I wrote this morning," the garden says. "It's a prescription," Hatch says. "Yes," Garden says, "but it's a funny one."

Garden served on the permanent panelist on the long-running BBC Radio improvisation show I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue, with Tim Brooke-Taylor as the lead actor. He co-wrote with Barry Cryer, You'll Have Had Your Tea, a direct spin-off of ISIHAC, and has written numerous books from the series, from guides to the game Mornington Crescent.

In the 1989 BBC radio comedy sketch show The Long Hot Satsuma, Garden penned for and appeared with Barry Cryer and Alison Steadman. Garden appeared in Paul B. Davies' 2000 radio play Spy Nozy and the Poets. Garden appeared on and appeared on the BBC radio comedy sketch show The Right Time in 2001 and 2002, as well as Eleanor Bron, Paula Wilcox, Clive Swift, Roger Blake, and Neil Innes. He served as script editor for The Hudson and Pepperdine Shows.

The garden is the chair of the spoof radio game show Beat the Kids. He has appeared on the UK version of the improvisation television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which has a similar structure. He co-authored Giles Wemmbley-Hog Goes Off, and in 2006, Garden co-created and appeared on the BBC Radio 4 comedy quiz show The Unbelievable Truth.

With a second series in 2007, Garden created About a Dog, based on Debbie Barham's original idea.

Garden has appeared in several of Big Finish's Doctor Who audio dramas.

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He plays Professor Fassbinder, a parody of Victor Bergman in Space: 1999. Geoffrey Vantage, parodying Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, appears in Max Warp. In the Eighth Doctor audio play The Book of Kells, he also plays Abbot Thelonious (an alias of the Meddling Monk) and later appears as a recurring antagonist to the Monk (a role previously played on television by Peter Butterworth).

The Goodies, one of Garden's most well-known television series, appeared alongside Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie from 1970 to 1982. The three children appeared in "A Poke in the Eye" at Amnesty International (With a Sharp Stick) (during which they performed their hit song "Funky Gibbon"). Many episodes of the television sitcom Doctor in the House were co-written by Garden and Bill Oddie, as well as co-writing chapters of the forthcoming Doctor in Charge and Doctor in Charge series. Garden appeared on Twice a Fortnight with Bill Oddie, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Jonathan Lynn, as well as sketch show Broaden Your Mind with Tim Brooke-Taylor, with Bill Oddie joining the cast for the second series.

Garden and Oddie wrote in 1982, but did not appear in, a six-part science fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central, which was shown on ITV. In the near future, the display would be held in an international space station.

In Bananaman (1983), Garden was the voice of the title character, as well as General Blight and Maurice of the Heavy Mob in the children's animated television comedy series, which also included the remainder of the Goodies team. The parodyd comic book superheroes were parodydoutput: The series parodied comic book superheroes. Garden wrote for the sitcom Surgical Spirit (1994). Graeme Garden has also appeared in three series of the BBC's health magazine Bodymatters.

In the episode The Death List, Garden appeared in the political sitcom Yes Minister as Commander Forrest of the Special Branch. In the House episode Doctor on the Box, he appeared as a television presenter in the Doctor.

He was a regular team captain on the political game show If I Ruled the World. Brooke-Taylor appeared in one episode as a guest, and he suggested that it was high time the Goodies episodes were repeated during the game "I Couldn't Disagree More." The garden was obliged by the game's laws to deny this assertion, saying, "I couldn't disagree more -- it was time to repeat them ten, fifteen years ago."

Garden and Brooke-Taylor co-presenters of Channel 4's daytime game show Beat the Country in 2004, in which they indulged in the typical game show "banter" but took the quiz seriously. It was notable for the use of a "laugh track" rather than a studio audience. A Sense of the Past for Yorkshire Television has hosted Tell the Truth and a series of historical shows.

Garden writes and directs for the company Video Arts, which is best known for its training films starring John Cleese.

Garden has had a fruitful stage career and appeared in many National Theatre productions as well as London's West End. In addition, he has appeared in several BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series and television drama, including Peak Practice and Holby City. In Tim Brooke-Taylor's play The Unvarnished Truth, the gardener appeared.

In 1986, he appeared in J B Priestley's An Inspector Calls at the Royal Exchange, Manchester.

In 2006, Garden produced The Pocket Orchestra, a London performance. Garden and Brooke-Taylor arrived in Edinburgh in a performance that brought back some recollection from their time with the Goodies and light entertainment.

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