RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 RIP Ken You made me laugh o much with your radio shows. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5vaIsaxB8 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Just heard on Radio 4 news that Sandy Toksvig Had tweeted this, . 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DavidR Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Saw Doddy live, twice: first time in Birmingham; second time, whilst on holiday in N.Wales in the 70's, at a cinema in Caernarfon, which doubled as a theatre. The show started at 7.30pm and should have finished 3 hours later. At 11.30pm the band walked out and Doddy finally wrapped it up at 12.05am. I've never laughed so much in all my life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 Loved his 'Mother-in-Law' jokes. https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/sir-ken-dodds-10-best-jokes-do-i-believe-in-safe-sex-of-course-i-do-i-have-a-handrail-around-the-bed-a3787291.html Thanks for the entertainment through all those years. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 Saw Doddy live, twice: first time in Birmingham; second time, whilst on holiday in N.Wales in the 70's, at a cinema in Caernarfon, which doubled as a theatre. The show started at 7.30pm and should have finished 3 hours later. At 11.30pm the band walked out and Doddy finally wrapped it up at 12.05am. I've never laughed so much in all my life. I used to live in High Wycombe where The Swan always had a varied programme through the year. I know a couple of the ladies who were part-time usherettes (presumably paid per-evening) wouldn't do Doddy - not because they didn't like him but simply he gave peope their money's worth and went on and on and on, and they couldn't rely on what time they'd get home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardbealach Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 A taxi driver phoned into BBC Radio Merseyside this morning. He said he driven Doddy home after one of his shows in the early hours of the morning to Knotty Ash. Doddy gave him the £5.50 for the £5.50 fare and having got out of the taxi, Doddy leant into the taxi and put something in the driver's shirt pocket saying 'Have a drink on me!' As Doddy walked up his path the driver went into his pocket and took out ---- a tea bag! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan downes Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Without question, the absolute best. RIP Ken. There'll never be another like you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 An absolute pleasure to have seen him live and talk about value for money. Bucketloads and very, very funny. R.I.P great man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiles Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Never found him to be in the least bit funny tbh. That said he seemed popular, so I can see why people are commenting on his passing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) Never found him to be in the least bit funny tbh. That said he seemed popular, so I can see why people are commenting on his passing. My wife is the same with tommy cooper, doesn’t find him funny at all, I’ve only got to see him and I’m cracking up! Despite doddy being from a very different generation to me I found him funny in a ‘silly’ way, my first real experience of him was the original ‘audience with’ in the early 90s which just made me laugh start to finish, no swearing, no shock factor just good old what I would call ‘end of the pier’ daft humour just a bit of inuendo here and there I love seeing old footage of him from the 1970’s with what I would call a gossip of ‘kitty and ada’s’ in the audience all wearing similar horn rimmed glasses and cake hats who would appear to give a unified ‘whoooo’ at the mention of anything remotely ‘sexual’ Was watching footage of him with the Beatles on YouTube earlier, fascinating to watch and even now still quite funny, even the Beatles humours shines through as they take the mick out of ringo mainly! I also found it lovely earlier that his wife paid tribute to him from outside the house he was born and raised in and where he lived all his life! Edited March 12, 2018 by big jim 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I have a confession to make. I bought a copy of "Tears". Years later I gave it to my local hospital radio station. Unbeknown to me, so did five other people. RIP Sir Ken Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Star Legend Unique Often misused, but not in this case. And an entertainer in the public eye who reached 90 without any sense of impropriety or scandal about him - even his little run-in with HMRC didn't involve £M's in off-shore tax havens; just under his bed..... His death was the lead on Radio 4's "Today" programme. That made me smile; not his death, but that it kept off greasy politicians from the top spot. RIP Sir Ken 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 He could tell jokes without using bad language. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Worsdell forever Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 Saw him at Middlesbrough town hall many years ago and yes, he did ask the audience if they had brought a pillow and a flask and yes, he did go on till gone midnight... My dad was telling me tonight about when he almost bumped into him, it was in the main street in Scarborough in the mid 60s, there was this mass of hair running down the street weaving in and out of everyone, presumably he was late for a matinee performance at the Futurist theatre. RIP Doddy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 He could tell jokes without using bad language. And that is nothing to be sniffed at IMO. I'm no stranger to bad language and have used enough choice words myself, I also like plenty of comedians who swear a lot (I love Bill Hicks) but I listen to a lot of comedy (and indeed drama) and can't help wondering how much of the swearing is there for a cheap joke or shock to compensate for an absence of ideas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 Unashamedly lifted from the BBC website: Doddy's top 10. 1. "My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke?'" 2. "I love my girlfriend, my girlfriend loves me. She loves my hair, she loves my eyes, she loves my teeth. She loves my teeth because I'm the only person that can peel an orange through a tennis racket." 3. "I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months. I don't like to interrupt her." 4. "My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night, saying: 'Well, that taught me a lesson.'" 5. "The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener." 6. On his famous tax fraud trial: "I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside." 7. On his marathon live shows: "You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox." Image copyrightPA8. "Do I believe in safe sex? Of course I do. I have a handrail around the bed." 9. "I'm a sex symbol - I am a sex symbol for women who don't care." 10. "I do all the exercises every morning in front of the television - up, down, up, down, up, down. Then the other eyelid." 11. "I did 25 minutes running on the spot this morning - I had my braces caught in the banister." 12. At the Royal Variety Performance: "This audience tonight represents the creme de la creme. That's French for evaporated milk." Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES13. On approaching his 80th birthday: "Age doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." 14. "Did any of us in our wildest dreams ever think we'd live long enough to see the end of the DFS sale?" 15. "I wanted to take the dog to obedience class but it wouldn't go." 16. "Did you hear about the shrimp that went to the prawn's cocktail party? He pulled a mussel." 17. "So it turns out that if you bang two halves of a horse together, it doesn't make the sound of a coconut." RIP Ken. Mick 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 (edited) "The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener." Repeated this one to the Boss (at work, that is). We cracked up. edit: The Boss then had an image of said Cat stood bolt upright, tail held vertically upwards, pencil twiddled.... I then had an image of a Cat going cross-eyed whilst gripping the carpet for dear life with his claws during the "sharpening" exercise. Which in turn moved on to telling the Boss that it would be a sure-fire way of stopping people from chewing pencils. That was it - I finally managed to tip him over the edge. Not much work done after that thought. I must do something about my sick and twisted imagination, I really must. Edited March 13, 2018 by polybear Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 "The man who invented cats' eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener." Repeated this one to the Boss (at work, that is). We cracked up. I then had an image of a Cat going cross-eyed whilst gripping the carpet for dear life with his claws during the "sharpening" exercise. Which in turn moved on to telling the Boss that it would be a sure-fire way of stopping people from chewing pencils. I always chew the blunt end...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold big jim Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2018 I always chew the blunt end...... Which is the blunt end of a cat? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 12, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2018 Which is the blunt end of a cat? The one with the teeth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 (edited) Just had a thought. What'll happen to all those treacle mines and jam-butty factories? Edited March 13, 2018 by Peter Kazmierczak 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 We can still model them Stewart 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Anyone remember the Southend club big circle layout in the 60s? That had a treacle mine - probably due to the popularity of Doddy at that time? Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted March 13, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13, 2018 Thinking of Ken Dodd has made me nostalgic for the concept of comedy as being nothing more than to make people laugh and be happy, not ramming a world view down our throats. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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