Graeme Garden "". In "Max Warp" he plays TV presenter Geoffrey Vantage, parodying "Top Gear" presenter Jeremy Clarkson. He also plays Abbot Thelonious (an alias of the Meddling Monk) in the Eighth Doctor audio play "The Book of Kells" in 2010, and subsequently returns as a recurring antagonist to the Eighth Doctor. Garden's best known television work is freeform sitcom "The Goodies", which he wrote and performed along with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie from 1970 to 1982. The three appeared in the Amnesty International show "A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick)" (during which they sang their hit song
Eric Idle by the president of the Footlights Club, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Footlights Club member Bill Oddie. Idle started at Cambridge only a year after future fellow-Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese. He became Footlights President in 1965 and was the first to allow women to join the club. Idle starred in the children's television comedy series "Do Not Adjust Your Set" co-starring his future Python fellows Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Terry Gilliam provided animations for the show. The show's cast also included comic actors David Jason and Denise Coffey. Idle also appeared as guest in some episodes of the television