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
Graeme Garden has a successful stage career, and has acted in several National Theatre productions, as well as London's West End. He has also acted in several BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series, and television drama including "Peak Practice" and "Holby City". He appeared in "Bang-Bang-a-Boom!", a spin-off audio drama based on the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" by Big Finish Productions. Garden appeared with Tim Brooke-Taylor in the theatre production "The Unvarnished Truth". In 1986 he appeared in a production of An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. Garden wrote a play called "The