Baikie first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the comedy sketch group 'The Bodgers' which he formed with
George Watson's College schoolfriends Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and
Jack Docherty. Their 1984 show 'Arfington, Arfington' and '85 show 'Mr Hargreaves Did It' were both shortlisted for the Perrier Comedy Award. The four Bodgers moved to London in 1986 and began performing on the alternative comedy circuit. They were teamed up with
Morwenna Banks and
John Sparkes by producer Alan Nixon, first for the radio show 'Bodgers, Banks and Sparks' and then the television sketch show
Absolutely which ran for four seasons on Channel 4 from 1989 to 1993. He also acted in the Disney film
Swing Kids. In 1995, Baikie teamed up with fellow Absolutely comedian John Sparkes to write and co-present the world's first comedy nature TV series 'Squawkie Talkie'. Thereafter, he continued working with Sparkes and won 4 Welsh BAFTA Awards for Best Light Entertainment for producing 'Barry Welsh is Coming' and three 'Hugh Pugh' specials between 1996 and 2002. He also produced 'The Morwenna Banks Show' and numerous editions of 'The Jack Docherty Show' which launched with
Channel Five in 1997. Twenty years after
Absolutely had first appeared on television, the team performed a one-off reunion for Radio 4's 'Sketchorama' in The Òran Mór, Glasgow produced by The Comedy Unit. The group enjoyed their comeback and the programme won 'Best Scripted Comedy with Audience' in the 2014 Audio Drama Awards. Three radio series of 'The Absolutely Radio Show' followed on Radio 4 between 2015 and 2019. ==Music career==