Photo: Ken Dodd talking to OTSNews.co.uk
Comedian Ken Dodd among celebrities on New Year Honours List
Veteran comedian and regular visitor to Sothport Ken Dodd has been knighted – amid a long list of celebrities named in the New Year Honours List.
The 89-year-old Liverpudlian, who rose to fame in the 1950s, has been recognised for services to entertainment and charity, following a career spanning six decades encompassing stand-up comedy, music and television.
“I’m very proud, I’m very, very happy and full of plumptiousness. I feel highly tickled,” he said.
In 2013 Ken Dodd spoke to OTS News..
Kenneth Arthur Dodd, OBE (born 8 November 1927) is a British 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”) and his greeting of “How tickled I am!”, as well as his send-off “Lots and lots of happiness!”.
He works mainly in the music hall tradition, although, in the past, has occasionally appeared in drama, including as Malvolio in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night on stage in Liverpool in 1971; on television in the cameo role of ‘The Tollmaster’ in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen; and as Yorick (in silent flashback) in Kenneth Branagh’s film version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in 1996.
In the 1960s his fame was such that he rivalled the Beatles as a household name.
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