There's a moment towards the end of their show when Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor stand together on stage, playing the kazoo and the swanee whistle into a vintage radio mic. It almost brought a tear to my eye, the image defining a lifetime of silliness in the name of entertaining others. Such is the rosy glow cast by The Goodies Still Rule OK!, this reminiscence floorshow hosted by two-thirds of the madcap 1970s trio.
The show takes the form of a genial chat with Garden, Brooke-Taylor and, on video inserts, Bill Oddie, recounting the story of the Goodies from Cambridge University to TV fame. It's a format that craves your indulgence, as when Garden recounts a lame anecdote about being bothered by a wasp while filming. There are times, too, when the evening might have benefited from Oddie's fizzier energy.
But Garden and Brooke-Taylor are likable hosts, who can still deploy the old magic: witness Garden's funny physical comedy routine involving a toy owl and a vampire bat. And theirs is an engaging story to tell, in which the proto-Goodies and their contemporaries, the Pythons, spend the 1960s hopping in and out of each other's trail-blazing TV sketch shows.
History has been kinder to the Pythons, partly for reasons of political correctness. The Goodies were silly about everything, including black and gay people, as several clips tonight make clear. They were also hilarious and gleefully creative. Here, they screen their brilliant 1971 broadside against Mary Whitehouse, a prudish spoof sex education film entitled How to Make Babies by Doing Dirty Things. And the closing clip, from the 1975 episode Movies, is a mind-bending, rug-pulling masterpiece, in which the Goodies shoot a western, a Biblical epic and a silent comedy simultaneously on the same film set.
Perhaps it's a shame the highlights of this evening are old TV clips. But when the clips are this much fun, it's hard to object.
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