The Goodies "Funky Gibbon"

The Goodies are a trio of British comedians (Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie), who created, wrote, and starred in a surreal British television comedy series called The Goodies during the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy.
The three actors in The Goodies met as students at the University of Cambridge, where Tim Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Graeme Garden was studying medicine, and Bill Oddie was studying English.
On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

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[lozman67]

Tim was invited to be a founder member of the Pythons, Graham is a legend in radio comedy, and Bill is a legend in British TV, full stop: it was of it's time, and still funny, if you have a brain cell capable of social comment.

[mad4mater]

Graeme has the tightest dungarees ever.

[MrJuide]

Is this Racist?

[uterotourettes15]

Is this suppose to be funny? How the hell did someone die laughing at one of these episodes?

[antoniod]

Public Service TV in the States showed GOODIES, apparently hoping that It would repeat PYTHON's success here. I guess it didn't, as we saw nothing they taped after 1975.

[2morowMan]

what was surreal? i grew up with this stuff...

[mollyjbrooke]

The Goodies were, are, and will always be comedy genius. It's that simple.

[dimondeye1100]

oh my god!

[kaffesurrogat]

@PianoDude291 I take it you're not very funky then?