Monday 12 March 2018

Ken Dodd

Another part of my childhood gone!
A cousin of mine went to the stage school in Blackpool (she was later Miss Blackpool), and whenever Doddy did a show there he would use the kids from the stage school as his Diddymen - so my cousin was a Diddyman!
More recently, he appeared at Hay Festival. That year the main marquee was set up on the Castle gardens and, part way through the act, he suddenly left the stage. A few moments later, he was back - but he actually had food poisoning, and had been throwing up in the bushes at the back of the marquee!
He wasn't just a stage performer, of course - he had his own TV shows over the years, and was also a very good Malvolio in Twelfth Night, as well as Yorick in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (in a flashback, obviously!).
And he was in Doctor Who, in the Seventh Doctor story Delta and the Bannermen, which was set at a holiday camp.

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