Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: floo on March 12, 2018, 08:35:25 AM
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Remember going tp a Ken Dodd show twenty years ago. It was supposed to end at 10 PM. The house was still full at haf past twelve. I was a cynic - but he converted me. It took mt voice two days to recover from laughtng. The guy had talent oozing out of every hair follicle.
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Well, he was a genius, both of comedy and of language. His history is also very evocative, links with the Beatles and so on. Also a kind of music hall feel about him, which is probably dying out. How many men does it takes to change a toilet roll? Nobody knows, since it's never happened. Farewell, Doddy, you were a one-off.
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A true star! The mould was broken when Doddy was made.
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He was never my style.
I am more of a Python/Goons/Red Dwarf/Blackadder/HItchHikersGuide type
But I give him his due; he had charisma, energy, talent and humanity by the shedload and how rare is that.
I wish he was still with us.
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I forgot to mention that some people celebrated him as a master of the surreal. However, English humour has that reputation generally. At the end of a long show, he might say, 'you can't escape, if you go home, I'll follow you and shout jokes through the letterbox'.
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Well, he was a genius, both of comedy and of language. His history is also very evocative, links with the Beatles and so on. Also a kind of music hall feel about him, which is probably dying out. How many men does it takes to change a toilet roll? Nobody knows, since it's never happened. Farewell, Doddy, you were a one-off.
And something of an intellectual in his way, having read Freud and Bergson on the origins of humour. Naturally, he was able to have a joke at Freud's expense. Any one remember it? It involved the Glasgow Empire theatre.