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Post by richardwoods on Mar 12, 2018 18:58:43 GMT
Sad news, Doddy's passed away. Tatty bye everybody, tatty bye.
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Post by richardwoods on Mar 12, 2018 19:00:37 GMT
While I'm thinking about it, what's the archive situation regarding the Ken Dodd & the Diddymen BBC kids TV series from the early 1970's?
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Post by Simon Collis on Mar 12, 2018 20:55:40 GMT
Sad news. I went to see him in Scarborough about eight or nine years ago. He wasn't well, apparently, which is why the show finished at one thirty in the morning - about two and a half hours earlier than the year before...
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Post by John Wall on Mar 12, 2018 22:53:09 GMT
Totally unique, saw him quite a few times live - great loss:-(
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Post by richardwoods on Mar 13, 2018 9:42:14 GMT
It certainly is a great loss. Another great comic gone. Nice to hear deserved, proper & decent tributes on Radio 4 yesterday. He had the priceless gift, rather like Tommy Cooper of being able to make people laugh by being himself. He had the human touch, had time for people and appreciated his fans. When my wife was a little girl and was on holiday with her parents at Scarborough, they met him out walking and he took the time to sit down with her, sign her autograph book and draw her a Diddyman. What a nice guy.
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Post by John Wall on Mar 13, 2018 22:39:03 GMT
There are few who could get a laugh by just walking on, Ken Dodd was one of them. Others include Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock.
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Post by paul carney on Mar 14, 2018 9:08:06 GMT
Apparently he had the jury in stiches at times during his tax trial.
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Post by John Wall on Mar 14, 2018 9:12:33 GMT
Apparently he had the jury in stiches at times during his tax trial. He ran rings round Leveson - who later chaired the phone hacking enquiry.
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Post by Tony Walshaw on Mar 15, 2018 7:36:19 GMT
There are few who could get a laugh by just walking on, Ken Dodd was one of them. Others include Frankie Howerd and Tony Hancock. Yes, Eric Morecambe, Kenny Everett (and as richardwoods mentions) Tommy Cooper could do that as well - just being themselves. Like Tommy Cooper, I think Ken Dodd was more focused on live shows, and fitted in TV around this. IIRC they never had TV series year-after-year, as e.g. the two Ronnies, Eric & Ernie, Dick Emery did. R.I.P. Ken Dodd. Sadly, there are now so few of that generation of entertainers alive, that the tributes came from younger people rather than Ken's contemporaries. Though it was good to see Paul McCartney praising Ken.
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