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Ken Dodd has died!
« on: March 12, 2018, 08:35:25 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2018, 08:56:51 AM »
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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Re: Ken Dodd has died!
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2018, 03:51:20 PM »
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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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2018, 05:34:18 PM »
A true star! The mould was broken when Doddy was made.
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Re: Ken Dodd has died!
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2018, 07:46:52 PM »
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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Re: Ken Dodd has died!
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2018, 08:35:24 PM »
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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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2018, 05:02:21 PM »
Quote from: wigginhall on March 12, 2018, 03:51:20 PM
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.
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