The Goodies labour whilst laughing at a sketch in "The Goodies" episode "Alternative Roots". She refused to leave home for the hospital until the episode had finished. Thirty years later, she visited the 2007 UK reunion tour with "her baby, Ayesha, and the baby's husband" and recounted the story to Graeme Garden. The Goodies The Goodies are a trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. They wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show during the 1970s and early 1980s, combining sketches and situation comedy. The three actors met each other as undergraduates at Cambridge University,
The Goodies (TV series) contemporary UK "alternative" comedy hit, "Monty Python's Flying Circus". Whilst this comparison irritated them, Oddie, Garden and Brooke-Taylor were old university friends of the "Monty Python" cast. They had worked together on several projects, including the Cambridge University's Footlights Club revues, the radio show "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", and television shows such as "Broaden Your Mind", "Twice a Fortnight", and a number of the Amnesty International benefit shows. "At Last the 1948 Show" was another show with multiple connections to the Pythons; it included the "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch, co-written and performed by Brooke-Taylor with John Cleese, Graham Chapman