Just a Spanish Ken Dodd

[fanatic1]

In fairness, she'd have to go some to sink as low as the lovable scouse 'funnyman'.
Good old Doddy married his partner of forty years just two days before he croaked specifically to avoid inheritance tax. Who said romance is dead eh?
He was acquitted of tax avoidance in 1989 despite evidence that he routinely deposited cash in 20 accounts on the Isle of Man, hid £335,000 in cash in a suitcase in his attic and opted to be paid for his gigs in cash thereby depriving the Exchequer (i.e. you and me) of nearly £800,000. Despite all this, the bent fucker was acquitted. Is it any coincidence that the trial was held in Liverpool before a scouse jury? Well, you can't say they don't look after their own.

He cracked that originally Income Tax was at 2p in the pound (to fund the Napoleonic wars) and he thought it still was. He was lucky to avoid his Summer show in Pankhurst where he would have made the inmates laugh.

 

[Kippaxpete]

He cracked that originally Income Tax was at 2p in the pound (to fund the Napoleonic wars) and he thought it still was. He was lucky to avoid his Summer show in Pankhurst where he would have made the inmates laugh.

I was with you up to the point you said he'd make the inmates laugh. Personally, I always found him about as funny as dysentery.

 

[fanatic1]

I was with you up to the point you said he'd make the inmates laugh. Personally, I always found him about as funny as dysentery.

I always thought his comedy routines were rather silly (Diddy men, jam butty mines, tickling sticks,etc) although he could deliver a good one liner) but I changed my mind sharpish. About 15 years ago I turned on radio 5 live for some cricket scores. However, as a typical English summer it was pissing down and all sports were cancelled. The presenters were worried until somebody saw Ken Dodd standing in the corridor outside, waiting for a radio 4 tribute to the old music halls.. Knowing that Dodd was a horse racing man, he was persuaded to give a few on air anecdotes to kill some time.

He agreed and the next hour was just incredible comedy gold. The theme was all sports and he rattled off gag after gag non stop and completely ad lib. I just couldn't stop laughing and attempted to write down some of his jokes but had to quit. Many staff in adjoining offices gave up work altogether and crammed into the studio to listen in. At 3 o'clock he took over the news bulletin to even more hilarity. Ken Dodd really saved that programme and declined all offers of expenses, saying that the BBC had given him his career start and this was some repayment.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Lester Piggott didn't do too well though I recall.

When he was inside, he was asked "how's it going", to which he replied

"Soft....good to soft in places"