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is a tribute to a great comedian, and singer. I love his humour and am amazed at his armoury of jokes which go on for several hours when he's performing. © Kevin Parrish 2005 KEN
DODD Ken Dodd, last of the great stand up comics. Loved by his audience and by such diverse performers as Eric Sykes, Derek Jacobi, John Osborne, Alison Steadman, Roy “Chubby” Brown and Kenneth Branagh. Even Morecambe and Wise rated him so highly that they would say “We would never follow Ken Dodd” such is his brilliance. So salute Kenneth Arthur Dodd, a true FUNNY man. “There are thousands of actors in our profession but there is only one Ken Dodd”. ERIC SYKES “Time and time again I’ve watched a Doddy audience collapse into total exhaustion. I was at the Opera House in Manchester when a man in the audience laughed so loud and long that he cracked a rib. Many years later I was talking comedy with Bob Hope, Bob said he’d seen Doddy at the Palladium: the audience was laughing so loud, he said, nobody could hear him booing”. EDDIE BRABEN “Ken has great timing and never lets his audience off the hook. Once he’s got them, he keeps them. Also his love of his audience and understanding of the human condition; what makes us all tick and what our frailties are”. ALISON STEADMAN “Have you seen him in a theatre?. He is a genius.” ARTHUR ASKEY “My uncle was killed by literature. He got run over by a mobile library” KEN DODD Any queries relating to this article email Malcolm at: malcolm.hunter@live.co.uk |