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
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