Cachephrase - Ken Dodd - 1970 Traditional Cache
Cachephrase - Ken Dodd - 1970
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Kenneth Arthur "Ken" Dodd, was born in Knotty Ash, Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of a coal merchant. A comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, famous for his frizzy hair or "fluff dom" and buck teeth or "denchers", his favourite cleaner, the feather duster (or "tickling stick"). His stand-up comedy style is fast and relies on the rapid delivery of one-liner jokes. He has claimed that his comic influences include other Liverpool comedians like Arthur Askey, Robb Wilton, Tommy Handley and the "cheeky chappy" from Brighton, Max Miller.[2] He intersperses the comedy with occasional songs, both serious and humorous, in an incongruously fine light baritone voice.
He is renowned for the length of his performances, and during the 1960s he earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest ever joke-telling session: 1,500 jokes in three and a half hours (7.14 jokes per minute), undertaken at a Liverpool theatre, where audiences were observed to enter the show in shifts.
Dodd has had two long-term fiancées, but has never married. A stalker, Ruth Tagg, who harassed Dodd and his girlfriend Anne Jones (who is also a current support act, named 'Sybie' Jones), sending threatening letters and a dead rat, attempted to burn down his house by pushing burning rags through the letterbox in October 2001. Tagg pleaded guilty to harassment and arson at Preston Crown Court.
He continues to tour and, despite his age, his shows still frequently do not finish until after midnight. In 2012 at the age of 84, he played the Princes Theatre in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex on 7 July. Starting at 7.15pm he continued until just before 9.00pm when Sybie Jones took to the stage. Returning at 9.30pm he continued until 10.00pm. The second support act performed until Dodd's return just before 11.00pm when he continued until 00.25am. The tour, already on performance 15 of the year, had a further 38 dates scheduled before the end of 2012.
He underwent a hernia operation in late 2007, forcing him to cancel several performances, but was back on stage within a month.
Small clip lock box, top of post, mind the prickles.
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