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
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