Graeme Garden
Scottish comedian and actor (born 1943)
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- David Graeme Garden (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter.
- Garden's parents, John and Elizabeth, farmed at Macduff, Banff and Buchan, Aberdeenshire.
- Asked how he justified making jokes rather than saving lives, he answered: I don't think I would have done it as well.
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WikipediaDavid Graeme Garden (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter. He is best known as a member of The Goodies and a regular panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.
Garden was born on 18 February 1943 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and raised in Preston, Lancashire, England, the only son (with a daughter) of Robert Symon Garden (1910–1982), an eminent orthopaedic surgeon who created the Garden classification of hip fractures, and his wife Janet Ann (née McHardy). R. S. Garden's parents, John and Elizabeth, farmed at Macduff, Banff and Buchan, Aberdeenshire. Garden was educated at Repton School and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club and served as its president in 1964, while also performing in the 1964 Footlights revue, Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Garden qualified in medicine but has never practised. Asked how he justified making jokes rather than saving lives, he answered:
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