John Cleese, Stephen Fry and David Mitchell have paid tribute to “wonderful comedian” Tim Brooke-Taylor after his dying on the age of 79.
Cleese, who co-starred with Brooke-Taylor within the 1960s and 70s, stated he was “a great performer and companion”.
Fry described him as “a hero for as long as I can remember”, whereas Mitchell stated “the world has been robbed”.
The former member of 1970s sketch trio The Goodies died on Sunday after contracting coronavirus.
Cleese, who met the comic at Cambridge University and went on to seem with him on stage and display, stated the information meant he had “just lost the will to be silly”.
Fry added that Brooke-Taylor was “gentle, kind, funny, wise, warm, but piercingly witty when he chose to be”.
Mitchell, who appeared alongside Brooke-Taylor on BBC Radio 4’s panel present I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, described him as “a wonderful comedian and a really lovely man”.
The surviving members of The Goodies mourned their co-star. Bill Oddie remembered him as “a true visual comic and a great friend”, whereas Graeme Garden stated he was “terribly saddened by the loss of a dear colleague and close friend of over 50 years”.
The madcap sketch present started in 1970 and ran for 12 years, bringing the trio prime-time TV success.
Brooke-Taylor had beforehand starred with Garden, Oddie and Cleese, amongst others, on BBC radio comedy I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again within the 1960s.
Brooke-Taylor (proper) with I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again co-stars together with John Cleese (second left)
That later led to Radio 4’s long-running I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. Brooke-Taylor appeared on the primary version in 1972 and remained a daily visitor.
The present’s host Jack Dee stated Brooke-Taylor was “a delightful man and never anything but great company”.
He stated: “Tim brought a unique quality to Clue. He was a proper team player, very generous as a performer, never egotistical and always more than delighted to set himself up as the butt of the joke.
“For me, his nice comedy reward was taking part in the injured harmless and he did it with brilliance and a attribute lightness of contact.
“It’s always heartbreaking to lose a loved one, but these times have created the cruellest of circumstances for that to happen in and my thoughts are with his wife Christine and all his family.”
The Goodies – Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie – on their well-known “trandem”
One of his greatest contributions to British comedy was co-writing and performing the well-known Four Yorkshiremen sketch with John Cleese, Chapman and Marty Feldman, initially for the ITV comedy programme At Last The 1948 Show!
A bunch of different figures from comedy and TV paid tribute on social media.
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