Ken Dodd dead

[Vardinio'sCat]

9 hours ago, Buce said:

 

Behave.

 

I get that it's not cool to speak ill of the dead, but this revisionist history that occurs every time someone dies makes me cringe.

 

Have to disagree. He might not have been that funny, but his 5 hour plus shows were legendary in the business. It was a standing joke that the stage manager would chuck the keys on stage and eff off home.

 

When I worked at DMH, the scramble to avoid that shift was worthy of the finest Ealing comedy! 

 

His fans used to bring blankets and sandwiches...

[Buce]

Just now, Vardinio'sCat said:

 

Have to disagree. He might not have been that funny, but his 5 hour plus shows were legendary in the business. It was a standing joke that the stage manager would chuck the keys on stage and eff off home.

 

When I worked at DMH, the scramble to avoid that shift was worthy of the finest Ealing comedy! 

 

His fans used to bring blankets and sandwiches...

 

So he was a bore with stamina.

 

How does that qualify him as a comedy legend?

[Vardinio'sCat]

8 hours ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Tax dodger. Sorry

 

That was about 20% of his act, with another 50% being the stamina needed by him and the audience, to survive his shows.

 

There was a comedian on 5Live said he watched the first hour of one show, went off to watch a Champions League game, then went and had a curry, then came back to watch the last hour of Doddy. 

[Vardinio'sCat]

4 hours ago, Rincewind said:

What a nice day to lay in a coffin and say say 'Wooden it be nice to be alive.'

 

Good timing, but that is really awful.

 

Well done.

[Vardinio'sCat]

22 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

So he was a bore with stamina.

 

How does that qualify him as a comedy legend?

 

It is not a set in stone concept, he can be a legend to me and not to you. If you don't have a blue rinse, a blanket and sandwiches, then you weren't his target audience (towards the end anyway). 

 

He was a link to very different world, his act was almost music hall, and he was a legend in the business.

 

 

You know, I just read a book about Stockholm Syndrome - it started off badly, but by the end I quite liked it. 

 

 

Edited 12 March 2018 by Vardinio'sCat

[ajthefox]

3 hours ago, Webbo said:

“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.”

He had clearly never tried shoving a pencil up a cat's arse cause believe you me it doesn't end well.

[Izzy]

The Dodo's all died

Di died

Dodi died

Now Dodd's died

 

Dido must be shitting herself 

[ScouseFox]

8 hours ago, Rincewind said:

I thought he was already dead

howling at this 

[SecretPro]

12 hours ago, Rincewind said:

I thought he was already dead

Mandela effect