Lindy, that is brilliant and a really good likeness of when he was younger, well done :PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
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Lindy, that is brilliant and a really good likeness of when he was younger, well done :PDT_Piratz_26:Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
Thanks. It's an old pic I sketched probably 1980s.
Lindy, I'm in awe!
That is a fantastic sketch. You're one talented lady.:handclap:
Ta. :o :)
well done lindy lou... that's great.. missus...
could you do one of him with his tickling stick..
Lemmo...:037:
Fine work, Lindy! A good likeness of the great entertainer and ambassador of good will for his favorite city.
Chris
how tickled hi ham!! missus!!!
more doddy news please anyone, what's he up to ???
Lemmo...thanks...:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
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Originally Posted by johnlemmon
"How full of plumptiousness I am! What a great morning for ramming a brush up Nigel Mansell's trouser leg and saying 'how's that for pole position!"
:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Does Ken have the honour of of being in the only scouse related (that I know of) tongue twister?
Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead
Doddy is a legend
A leg end :)
does that make him a foot :)
Great sketch lindylou...
I bumped into the great man only two weeks ago and said hello.
I wish i had this on me at the time for him to sign it.http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1..._Ken_Dod-1.jpg
One of my illustrations I did about a year ago.
I like your pic of Doddy, Klaatu. Good work.
Chris
That's great artwork Klaatu :handclap:
Thanks everyone...I met him in the Anglican Cathedral, apparently he's quite a regular visitor.
In hindsight I should have said to him- it's great meeting a Liverpool icon inside another Liverpool icon.
I met him at Anfield. . . another of Liverpool's temples. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by Klaatu
Chris
Met him on more than one occasion going in to All Saints Childwall Church - that's his 'local' chuch! You can't really say anything apart from doffing your cap at the giant of comedy - especially when he's just about to enter a place of worship :)
I picked him up off the late train from London a few times when I had my cab in the 70's, he looked absolutely worn out, he is a workaholic. Don't believe the rumours that he is stingy, he is quite generous.
One of my fav lines from Doddy was when he was talking about the olden days (this was during his court case era) and he said 'in those days, tax was tuppence in the pound..........................'I thought it still was!!!!'Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
Creased me so much!!! :) :)
Agree over the workaholic bit, he has often been given the keys to theatres by disgruntled staff because of how long he stays on stage for. Wont stay in hotels either, always likes to get home to own bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by shytalk
It shows how much he's in Liverpool.
Everyone has got a story about seeing him or meeting him.
I think this thread would have ended by now if we were talking about "Jimmy or Cilla"
That's true.
I've met Ken Dodd on a couple of occassions. :) I know someone who is related to him.
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Originally Posted by lindylou
Does he work down a jam butty mine?
lol ! :D
I just watched Kenn Dodds "This is your life" from 1990.
Really enjoyed it.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Arena : Ken Dodd's Happiness - 8pm Christmas Eve BBC Two
BBC Two's 'Arena' is given unique, behind-the-scenes access, to one of the country's truly great comedians, the Squire of Knotty Ash, Ken Dodd.
Ken Dodd is probably the last of the great all-round entertainers whose roots go back to the old British music hall tradition.
As another veteran Eric Sykes says,"This man is the piece of Chippendale in a room full of G plan furniture".
Doddy, who was eighty in November, continues to perform live with a schedule that someone half his age would struggle to tackle.
Driven by an ambition to play every theatre in the UK and armed with his tickling sticks, jokes, songs and ventriloquism skills, he comes on stage at 7.30pm and rarely finishes before 12.30am.
Dodd still lives in his beloved Liverpool - in the same house in Knotty Ash where he's lived since he was four years old.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/conte...id_200x150.jpg
Ken Dodd and the Diddymen
Arena has been given unprecedented film access to give a glimpse of the side of Ken Dodd that the public seldom see. It reveals an intensely private man and builds a portrait of a serious-minded comedian.
Doddy's early career was spent as a coal-man and then a door-to-door salesman, selling feather dusters to Liverpool housewives.
It was during this time that he began to develop his act as a comedian," I served my apprenticeship round the clubs, dockers' soirees, anywhere where there was an audience I would go along and do my act".
Ten years later, he was performing sell-out shows at the London Palladium and his fans ranged from the Queen Mother to Harold Wilson and playwright John Osborne.
The Ken Dodd Show was watched by millions on television in the 60's and 70's but nowadays, apart from the occasional chat show appearances and "An Audience With…" Doddy has focused largely on his live shows.
His pedigree as a live performer has no challengers in show business. He holds the record for the longest ever run at the Palladium lasting 42 weeks in 1965 and breaking all box office records.
He has performed Shakespeare, appeared on Doctor Who and sold millions of records including the Number One 'Tears'.
In the minds and hearts of the British public he is 'up there' with other iconic comedy greats like Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper and fellow scouse comics Arthur Askey, Ted Ray, Tommy Handley and Rob Wilton - all of whom were major influences.
Arena : Ken Dodd's Happiness - 8pm Christmas Eve BBC Two
BRILLIANT.
NOT USED THE VCR FOR AGES.A GOOD REASON TO GET THOSE TAPES USED.!
THIS IS THE BEST THING ON OVER THE CHRISTMAS PERIOD!!:handclap:
John: Turn your caps lock off matey :PDT10, stop shoutin' :PDT11
OOPS
So sorry.Hope I didn't deafen' you!!:PDT_Xtremez_42:
what? eh? :PDT10Quote:
Originally Posted by John(Zappa)
Just been reading this, while the arena show about Doddy was on, some great stories here and on there. An Audience with Ken Dodd on BBC 2 later, I will make sure thats on too.
First saw him late 70's or early 80's when he did The Playhouse, and I was just blown away by the show, he was bleedin fantastic, until then, he was just that scary lookin bloke on the telly, after that show, he rocketed to the top of my fave comediens.
I've seen his stage show twice more since then, but not for about 18 years.
I've seen Joe Pasquale a couple of times since, took my 9 and 10 year old boys to see him, he's a very good live comedien, but he's no Doddy, he even agreed with me when I saw him the stage door once.
just finished watching the Doddy show, it was very good. I saw him live when I was, or was it before I was an elf, brilliant. As a kid back then he did it for me so for the grown ups it must have been hillarious.
Good man Ken, keep it up, yer ticklin, stick that is.:handclap:
What a terrific man, a legend to be treasured :PDT11
It just became available on UKnova.com:handclap:
Doddy is to play two shows in March 08 at St Georges Hall to celerate the capital of culture, talking about his 4 favourite Liverpool comedians.
I think Robb Wilton is one of them...
I went to see Doddy on the Empire, it must have been about 4 years ago. I think he was only supposed to do 2 hours but he got carried away and the brilliant entertainer carried on for well over 3 hours.
Saw Ken in Bradford on Friday 21st.His audience just love him,The man is the best comedy entertainer this country has seen.His energy levels are just amazing.I have seen him twice before in Blackpool.His jokes are so fast it is nearly impossible to remember them.We are going to try to get in at the City Varieties in Leeds in March.I also watched the programmes on him over the Christmas period.The show an audience with-most of that material he told last Friday.He involves his audience so much.May he go on for a lot longer.There is one thing we will not see him on telly.That medium cannot do him justice,you can't keep Ken in a box.He drifts off then comes back to the joke he was telling.
I used to go and see Doddy on the Shakespeare Theatre in the early 1950`s
in variety shows. He always included The Road To Mandalay in his act dressed up in safari clothes with a pithe helmet on his head and everything
but the kitchen sink on his back.
Before he became famous he sold Aunt Sally (liquid soap for non scousers) round the houses in Liverpool.
gregs dad