Beginnings
The three actors met as undergraduates at Cambridge University where Brooke-Taylor was studying law, Garden was studying medicine, and Oddie was studying English. Their contemporaries included John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle, who later became founding members of Monty Python. This group of students became close friends and Brooke-Taylor and Cleese, who were both law students, but at different colleges within the university, studied together, swapping lecture notes. They all became members of the Cambridge University Footlights Club, with Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and Garden succeeding him as president in 1964.
Garden himself was succeeded as Footlights Club president in 1965 by Idle, who had initially become aware of the Footlights when he auditioned for a Pembroke College "smoker" for Brooke-Taylor and Oddie.
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