The complete, unabridged, unreserved collection from the very best round of BBC Radio 4's 'I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue' - 'The Uxbridge English Dictionary'. Contains words soon to be used in a major motion picture.
Graeme Garden (Author)
Graeme Garden is one third of the Goodies. He is a comedy
legend.
Tim Brooke-Taylor (Author)
Tim was born in Buxton, Derbyshire, and studied at various schools
in Buxton and Winchester before beginning an Economics and Law
degree course at Cambridge University. In 1963, he became President
of Footlights, the revue club in which he wrote and performed with
Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle,
Jonathan Lynn and others. He toured extensively with the revue,
Cambridge Circus, before moving into television.
Tim on Telly
Tim's television credits include On The Braden Beat, The Frost
Programme (as editor), At Last the 1948 Show, Me and My Girl and,
of course, The Goodies.
From stage to page
Tim has also enjoyed considerable success on the stage and has
written three books, Rule Britannia, Tim Brooke-Taylor's Cricket
Box and Tim Brooke-Taylor's Golf Bag, as well as contributing to
The Little Book of Mornington Crescent and The Almost Totally
Complete I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Barry Cryer (Author)
In 1958 Barry Cryer had a Number 1 hit record in Finland with the
song 'Purple People Eater' by Sheb Wooley. Over his 50-year career
he has written for, among many, Morecambe and Wise, Bruce Forsyth,
Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Bob Hope and Richard Pryor. He is a
comedy legend.
Jon Naismith (Author)
Jon Naismith has produced on Radio- Week Ending, The Skivers, The
News Quiz, Quote.Unquote, Elastic Planet, For One Horrible Moment,
And I'm the Queen of Sheba, The Labour Exchange, Do Go On and About
A Dog all for BBC Radio 4, as well as twenty years of I'm Sorry I
Haven't A Clue, recently voted the second greatest Radio programme
of all time after The Goons. He also co-created The Unbelievable
Truth.
On TV he has produced and co-devised Bring Me The Head of Light
Entertainment with Graham Norton and It's Only TV But I Like It
with Jonathan Ross, Jack Dee, Phill Jupitus and Julian Clary and
has produced This Week Only with Joe Cornish, Nick Frost, Chris
Addison and Lauren Laverne for Channel 4, God Almighty with Clive
Anderson for Channel 5, The Smith & Jones Sketchbook with Mel Smith
and Griff Rhys-Jones for BBC1 and Shane with Frank Skinner for
ITV1.
If the 2016 lexicon is just too bleak, take refuge in the most
comprehensive list of Uxbridge definitions to date from the wags at
BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
*The Times*
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