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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 2:20:42 GMT
Gutted....One of my faves, and again, another British Icon...
RIP Mr Jam Butty Mine...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 2:29:26 GMT
Cringe worthy I know.
But do we still play this when we win....If anyone can remember that far back of course.
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Post by harveyworld on Mar 12, 2018 3:46:17 GMT
Always brought a sense of calm and relief after a game when this was played around the ground at the end of a game.
I'd go home with a smile knowing the rest of the weekend was going to be a good one.
Also remember seeing him many years ago at the Vicky Hall and it was way past midnight but he just going and going....
RIP
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Post by trickydicky73 on Mar 12, 2018 5:07:18 GMT
Another great gone. Soon we'll be left with the shite.
RIP, Ken.
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 12, 2018 5:31:56 GMT
The old joke can't be used for much longer... Ken Dodd died... Did he ?...
No Doddy
In the future people will just reply "yeah I know", and by doing so nullify the punchline.
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Post by Okie Stokie. on Mar 12, 2018 6:32:19 GMT
R.I.P.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 12, 2018 6:32:44 GMT
A true entertainer and music hall specialist. RIP Ken.
'What's 10 feet long, green with six legs and if it fell out of a tree would kill you?'.
A snooker table.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 6:41:37 GMT
What a legend. Godbless Doddy..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 7:27:06 GMT
RIP Ken.
And marrying your partner of 40 years to get your revenge on HMRC was a nice touch......
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 7:41:46 GMT
It's just been said on the Beeb that his shows sometimes went on for about 4 or 5 hours !
RIP Doddy !
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Post by Northy on Mar 12, 2018 7:44:31 GMT
RIP Doddy, boundless energy and enthusiasm he had a joy for life and making people laugh and smile.
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Post by salopstick on Mar 12, 2018 8:27:12 GMT
He’s had a great life and died with dignity
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Post by claytonscrubs on Mar 12, 2018 8:37:53 GMT
My Ma took me to see Doddy up Hanley, late-70’s....The only thing I can remember is seeing her laugh so much she had tears rolling down her cheeks, and not getting home until after midnight...😀
One of the all-time greats..
RIP KEN
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Post by felonious on Mar 12, 2018 8:41:50 GMT
I got to see one of his legendary long shows many years back going on until well after midnight. I hears a comment on the radio this morning from someone saying that his face was aching the morning after with the constant jokes. I've never experience that feeling of being in fear of your face getting cramp 
I remember his first joke that night, he looked straight at the front row and said "Sir that's a lovely coat you're wearing, Mr McAlpine"
Here's the BBC tribute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267
Never moved from his childhood home, married his partner of the last 40 years on Friday and had the 3rd best selling single of the 60s in Tears only beaten by two of the Beatles many number ones. An absolute eccentric.
"His funeral will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and most of Saturday"
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Mar 12, 2018 9:20:56 GMT
When taxes were first introduced it was Twopence in the pound . .....I thought it still was ! 😂 RIP a true legend.
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on Mar 12, 2018 9:22:05 GMT
Did he?
RIP
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Post by pearo on Mar 12, 2018 9:43:22 GMT
“ What a lovely day for shoving a cucumber through someone’s letterbox and shouting, look out the Martians are coming”
RIP Doddy
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Post by elystokie on Mar 12, 2018 9:52:21 GMT
My Ma took me to see Doddy up Hanley, late-70’s....The only thing I can remember is seeing her laugh so much she had tears rolling down her cheeks, and not getting home until after midnight...😀 One of the all-time greats.. RIP KEN I know he was on at the EMI Bingo up Hanley (now Gala) one night in '79, was on for 3 or 4 hours, I was working as a waiter in there at the time and really wasn't looking forward to it but he was absolutely brilliant. RIP Doddy. |
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Post by billc on Mar 12, 2018 10:58:24 GMT
A letter I wrote to Ken in 2008 and I got a very gracious reply. He liked the Brasso comment as well
Dear Mr Dodd,
I thought that I would drop you line because I am a great admirer of your work. Truth is I have been working up the courage to write to you and the opportunity presented itself when I was researching an article for a local newspaper on the 1950s. I saw an advert in the Leek Post and Times dated July 1956 for the summer show at the Central Pier at Blackpool. You were second on the bill below Jimmy James and above Jimmy Clitheroe. I suppose most people were, physically anyway, were above Jimmy Clitheroe.
I will always recall a show I saw you do on the “Good Old Days” that was recorded on Norwegian Television in September 1975. I was living in a remote part of the country and feeling a little home sick when you came on following the typical orotund introduction from Leonard Sachs. You stopped half way through the show to remove a coat hanger, which I still think one of the funniest things. It made me very happy and for a time forget my isolation.
I have seen you a few times live including a performance at Ellesmere Port- “Ellesmere Port is not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Grimsby”. And at the Victoria Hall in Hanley as you warned we did get home to Leek as the milkman was arriving. However. I often think that the idea of a suicide pact could be extended to include my hometown Stoke on Trent but the suicide pact would also involve Hull and Burnley.
I work part time on the tills at a supermarket in Leek so I try to work in a bit of your material especially when someone buys a cucumber. “What a wonderful day to push a cucumber through a neighbours letterbox and shout the Martians have landed”.
If it is a good day I manage a bit of my own material. A man bought two bottles of wine and a tin of Brasso. I warned him of the consequences of getting them mixed up "“a terrible end, but a lovely finish". I hope you approve”.
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Post by auntiegeorge on Mar 12, 2018 10:59:53 GMT
Saw him at the Stafford Gatehouse some 20 odd years ago. He had the crowd in hysterics.
Totally irreplaceable.
RIP Doddy.
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Post by BuzzB on Mar 12, 2018 11:13:38 GMT
It's just been said on the Beeb that his shows sometimes went on for about 4 or 5 hours ! RIP Doddy ! Yep, nearly 20 years ago we went to the Victoria Hall to see him, came on at 8, we had to leave at 12.45am as we had work the next day. I later heard it was gone 1.15 when he finished! RIP Doddy, a genuine one off and top entertainer. |
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Post by 3putts on Mar 12, 2018 11:30:49 GMT
Cringe worthy I know. But do we still play this when we win....If anyone can remember that far back of course. I "think" we stopped playing it but it has been a long time and my memory is not good. however I think they should play it tonight after we win as a fitting tribute. |
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Post by felonious on Mar 12, 2018 12:52:14 GMT
It's just been said on the Beeb that his shows sometimes went on for about 4 or 5 hours ! RIP Doddy ! He was still touring in his ninth decade with his shows sometimes lasting into the early hours of the morning. "Some of you are optimists," he'd tell his audience at the start of a show, "you've booked your taxis for half-past 12 But they say the breakfast here is good."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13360811
There was a documentary on his life last year and I remember it being discussed that he was an avid consumer of books on philosophy and a regular at the local library.
Behind the banter Ken Dodd was a private man, and a serious student of comic theory.
As he once put it: "Freud said that laughter is the outward expression of the psyche. But Freud never had to play the Glasgow Empire."
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Post by auntiegeorge on Mar 12, 2018 13:02:38 GMT
He'd be in the middle of one of his tattyfilarious routines and suddenly ask the audience:
"How many men does it take to change a toilet roll?
I don't know. It's never been done".
I'm so sad today. My whole world seems diminished now he's gone.
If only everyone just wanted to spread happiness like he did....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 13:34:39 GMT
We are the Diddy Men all in awe at a great man with a gift of laughter.
"Haven't spoken to the mother in law for 18 months, I don't like to interrupt her"
"How do you make a blond laugh on Wednesday?" Tell her a joke on Saturday
Classic comedy that will never be replaced.
RIP Ken and a genuine thanks for always making me laugh
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2018 15:53:08 GMT
He was a cracking CB for us RIP Doddy.
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Post by sharonbeech21 on Mar 12, 2018 16:05:05 GMT
Rrally sad news. I have seen Ken live many times. An Absolute Comedy Legend. A comedy genius who will never be forgotten Thankyou for the memories. R I P Ken God Bless xx
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Post by thevoid on Mar 12, 2018 18:43:41 GMT
A lovely, and genuinely funny man.
RIP Doddy
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Post by RichieBarkerOut! on Mar 13, 2018 8:13:49 GMT
Reading this thread has made me realise that I missed out by never seeing him do a live show.
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Post by didcotstokie on Mar 13, 2018 14:13:30 GMT
I was lucky enough to be working at the Theatre Royal Hanley in the 80's when he was in panto there, 'Mother Goose'. I say panto, it was more his show with some dancers and a few others! Even those shows ran over as you'd often have the matinee audience leaving with the evening's crowd waiting to go in. Also saw one of his solo shows just after he was acquitted on tax charges and that show finished just before midnight.
Great comedian and all round entertainer RIP
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