La Colombe Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 ...dies, aged 90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Sang the third biggest selling single of the 60's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 legend...... RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzi Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Very sad to hear of his passing. A funny man and a cultural icon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 His dad's dog's dead too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 12 minutes ago, Mr. Sausages said: His dad's dog's dead too. https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=20150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 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." 8. "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." 13. 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." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallaDoc Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I know one shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but the joke about Ken Dodd which made me laugh the most was "Diddling Doddy, King of the Diddlemen" which I think was coined by The Sun during his tax evasion case in 1989 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Down Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I was fortunate to have seen two of his shows one in Blackpool and one here on the Island. The man's stamina and recall were second to none. His legendary comment about not getting out of the theatre before midnight were accurate indeed. I think it was nearly half past midnight when we got out of the Gaiety Theatre. Absolutely brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 He used to make fun of his tax case during his act. Great entertainer. Very funny man without descending to vulgarity and also had a brilliant, powerful singing voice. Wonderfully versatile showman and the very last of his kind. When he was shown leaving hospital recently he clearly wasn't at all well and was having difficulty breathing. I wondered why they had discharged him, particularly on a freezing cold day, but maybe he'd had enough and just wanted to go home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 didn't he leave to get married? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 If he had a chance you can bet he would have a joke ready about wedding one week and funeral the next. He was always ready to mock himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war baby Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Farewell Doddy. A great showman, the very last of his kind. I was lucky enough to see him a few times at the Gaiety... until late. He died just two days after marrying Ann. She didn’t look that bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gettafa Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 3 hours ago, Mr. Sausages said: His dad's dog's dead too. A variation. I remember this at school, so a while ago: Ken Dodd died Did he? No, Doddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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