The Goodies 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, where Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Garden was studying medicine, and Oddie was studying English. Their contemporaries included Graham Chapman, John Cleese, and Eric Idle, who later became members of Monty Python, and with whom they became close friends. Brooke-Taylor and Cleese studied together and swapped lecture notes as they were
Jo Kendall David Hatch and Chris Stuart-Clark. Moving to radio comedy she was a regular performer in the BBC's "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again" (with John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and David Hatch), and a member of the panel in the very first edition of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". Kendall was also a regular team member of the popular radio comedy series "The Burkiss Way" and played Lady Cynthia Fitzmelton in the opening episode of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". In 1978 she appeared in the comedy drama "The Unvarnished Truth" at London's Phoenix Theatre