Overview
''I suffer from acute kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.''
Ken Dodd was a legend of British comedy. He launched his career in 1954, adopted his trademark ''tickling stick'' two years later and went on to enjoy a sixty-year career as the nation''s jester. Dodd''s act was frenzied and zany, exploiting his saucer-eyed, buck-toothed appearance and deploying a repertoire of one-liners, whimsical and verbal inventions and liberal doses of saucy – but never dirty – jokes.
Louis Barfe charts Dodd''s life and extraordinarily long career, revealing him to be the last of the great variety acts – and a comic phenomenon who delighted his audiences across seven decades.
Reviews for Happiness and Tears:
''The definitive account'' The Times.
''An industriously thorough, entertaining biography'' The Spectator.
''Sure to delight Dodd''s many admirers'' TLS.
''Fascinatingly odd'' Daily Express.
''An absolute joy'' Choice.
- | Author: Louis Barfe
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- | Publication Date: Aug 06, 2020
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781788549547
- | ISBN-10: 1788549546
