Ken Dodd- "Laughter is the greatest music in the world"...

Lucy8080 · 12-03-2018 9:03am #1

...and audiences come to my show to escape the cares of life. "

Happiness, happiness , the greatest gift that I possess
I thank the Lord I've been blessed
With more than my share of happiness

To me the world is a wonderful place
And I'm just about the luckiest human in the whole human race
I've got no silver and I've got no gold
But I've got happiness in my soul

The world is down a tickling stick today-

Sorry to hear of his passing.

Share a Ken Dodd joke (if he ever made you laugh) ! I think it would be a fitting tribute.

somesoldiers · 12-03-2018 9:28am

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months

I don't like to interrupt her

RIP

Lucy8080 · 12-03-2018 9:31am

I guess I should start...being the o.p.

What a lovely day to stick a cucumber through the Vicar's letter box and shout " The Martians are coming!"

bnt · 12-03-2018 9:32am

Dodd was infamous for his long shows: four, five hours easily. He was well aware of this:

Ken Dodd wrote:

My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night, saying: 'Well, that taught me a lesson'.

You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.

Yer Da sells Avon · 12-03-2018 9:55am

He was on Parkinson (or one of those shows) and he was asked about the differences in regional humour:

Ken Dodd: You could tell a joke in Glasgow and the whole audience will laugh. But in London, nobody will laugh.

Michael Parkinson: Why's that?

Ken Dodd: Because they can't hear it.

Arthur Daley · 12-03-2018 10:00am

Just realised Knotty Ash is a real place.

12-03-2018 10:02am

Ah no. He was one of the old ones I still liked to have on to pass a Saturday night in.

Relikk · 12-03-2018 10:29am

RIP.

He was a great singer, too.

razorblunt · 12-03-2018 10:30am

Did he ever settle that tax bill?

Lucy8080 · 12-03-2018 10:58am

razorblunt wrote: »

Did he ever settle that tax bill?

"They stole that idea from me"

- Referring to the Inland Revenue and "self-assessment" of income tax.

Lucy8080 · 12-03-2018 11:07am

"In the 1800s ,one of the M.P.s in London decided to introduce tax.In those days it was 2p in the pound. I thought it still was."

donegal_man · 12-03-2018 11:10am

“My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night, saying: ‘Well, that taught me a lesson’.”

K.Flyer · 12-03-2018 11:47am

"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."

Ken Dodd, R.I.P.

gimli2112 · 12-03-2018 11:49am

"Just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome, it started off badly but by the end I really liked it."

this made me laugh

Nekarsulm · 13-03-2018 10:36am

Once , when he asked an audience member what they worked at, and they replied "farmer" ; he came right back with. Ah, farmers. Salt of the earth. Up at half five in the morning.

Burying a dead sheep, so the neighbours don't know........

Capt'n Midnight · 15-03-2018 8:39pm

I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

I' ve seen a topless lady ventriloquist - Nobody has ever seen her lips move!

[Addressing people in The Gods at a provincial theatre] It’s a privilege to be asked to play here tonight on what is a very special anniversary. It is 100 years to the night since that balcony collapsed.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

Eve said to Adam: ‘Do you love me?’ And he replied: ‘Well who else is there?’

Scientists and doctors — they’re making tremendous strides all the time. One of these days you could have another mouth on top of your head. When you’re late for work in the morning, stick a bacon sandwich under your cap and eat it on your way to the bus.

Trouble, you don’t know what trouble is. This morning I rang up the Samaritans. I said: ‘Hello. My name’s Ken Dodd.’ The fella at the other end shot himself.

In Germany all the hims are Herrs.

It’s a posh audience here tonight. There are people in the front row eating chips with their gloves on.

Wibbs · 18-03-2018 12:43am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93dl8k24r8

Oddly relevant...

And fcuk me, Liam Shakespeare could nail it as far as the human condition and musing on that goes. Ignore the archaic language, the oul git hits the spot on a few levels.

Ken Dodd- "Laughter is the greatest music in the world"...

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