The Goodies International Comedy Festival in 2008. U.S. rock band The White Stripes named their 6th album "Icky Thump" in reference to The Goodies sketch "The Battle of Ecky Thump". The name was changed from "Ecky Thump" to "Icky Thump" to make the title more palatable to an American teenage audience. All three Goodies now have OBEs. Bill Oddie received his OBE in 2003 for wildlife conservation — while Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden received their OBEs in 2011 for services to light entertainment. All three Goodies have been regular attendees at Slapstick Festival in Bristol, and in 2011 they were awarded
Tim Brooke-Taylor Garden, David Hatch and Jo Kendall. In the mid-'60s, Brooke-Taylor performed in the TV series "On the Braden Beat" with Canadian Bernard Braden, taking over the slot then-recently vacated by Peter Cook in his guise as E. L. Wisty. Brooke-Taylor played a reactionary right-wing city gent who believed he was the soul of tolerance. In 1967, Brooke-Taylor became a writer/performer on the television comedy series "At Last the 1948 Show", with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. The "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series. The sketch was one of the few which survived