Bill Oddie obituary
Comedy star of the 1970s as one of the Goodies whose love of birds led to a second career as a wildlife presenterBill Oddie, who has died aged 85, was a multi-talented performer who found his greatest comedy success on television with his fellow Cambridge University Footlights members Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden in The Goodies, a sketch show that combined the anarchic elements of Monty Python’s Flying Circus with “silly” sight gags.Oddie’s self-taught musical skills steered the trio into…
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