Bill Oddie has been remembering his friend and comedy partner in The Goodies, Tim Brooke-Taylor, who died on Sunday.
He recalled the 79-year-old, who died after contracting Covid-19, as an "extremely amiable, nice bloke" and the type of person you would not "think twice about asking for a favour".
The trio of Oddie, Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden found fame as members of the comic trio in the 1970s.
Oddie told the PA news agency: "I mean Tim was not only a workmate for most of my life but also a friend, colleague . . . he's one of those people who has been part of all sorts of aspects of my life.
"We were at university together so we discovered what we could and couldn't do and decided we were both going to do comedy things there and that lead to us going around the world, literally with the Cambridge circus group with John Cleese and Graham Chapman and so it's gone on . . ."
78-year-old Oddie said he had not been aware of his friend's illness and was in disbelief at the news of his death.
"I always thought of him as pretty fit, you know he used to play a lot of cricket and football and stuff like that. I couldn't believe it when I was first told," he said.
Oddie shared an anecdote from the Kitten Kong episode of The Goodies when asked about his fondest memories of Brooke-Taylor.
He said: "It'll sound positively cruel, [but] a lot of the clearest memories [are of], one or two of us, or Graeme, whoever it was, getting into terrible trouble trying to do our own stunts and hurting ourselves.
"I remember one in particular with Tim where we were all dressed as mice and flying over London to find a kitten or something, as you do, and we both had to be hung up or all three of us had to be hung up as if we were flying, in a studio on these steel ropes, and one of them broke.
"I mean he (Tim) was very lucky he didn't lash his hand off.
"You wouldn't be able to do any of those things now of course, it'd be health and safety... there were lots of bits and pieces at university and working together in those circumstances was always fun, because it was quite an adventure."
