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Ken Dodd

February 2024

  • Blackpool’s famous tower. The new Showtime museum will showcase the resort’s entertainment heritage.

    ‘It’s about restoring pride’: can Blackpool use its saucy image to win back the crowds?

    A £15m museum of entertainment, opening next month, will ‘celebrate the resort’s brilliance’

July 2023

  • Ken Dodd holding an enormous tickling stick on the stage of the London Palladium 1990.

    Happiness! Ken Dodd exhibition to open at the Museum of Liverpool

    The comedian, who died in 2018, will be remembered in a new exhibition that brings together props, costumes and an interactive ‘giggle map’

May 2021

  • Ken Dodd at London airport in 1965 when his record Tears topped the charts.

    Brief letters
    How Dylan’s UK chart run ended in Tears

    Brief letters: Ken Dodd | ID cards | Typos | Boris Johnson | Birthday wishes

September 2020

  • Lee Evans

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    A funny thing happened: stunning portraits of stellar standups – in pictures

    From Ken Dodd and his tickling stick to Nina Conti and her monkey, Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has snapped a host of superb comedians on stage

May 2020

  • Two women enjoy a drink on the grass in Hyde Park, London

    Brief letters
    Solutions for tracing and making contacts

    Brief letters: Recruiting tracers | Rules for contact | Men in tights | A ghastly mix-up | Cuckoo calling

December 2019

  • Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington in 1997.

    The Michael Billington archive: highlights from five decades of reviews

  • Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about comedy, from Eric and Ernie to Lee and Herring

30 March 2018

  • Beatles fans in the 1960s

    Brief letters
    Signed off school with Beatlemania

    Brief letters: GKN | National debt | Beatlemania | Hamlet relief | Returning the empties | Offenbach

28 March 2018

  • Diddymen.

    'Tatty-bye, Doddy': Liverpool bids farewell to Ken Dodd

    Gags, tickling sticks and crowds five deep marked the funeral of the vaudevillian comedian

14 March 2018

  • Ken Dodd arriving at London airport in 1965

    Why we loved the great Ken Dodd

    Letters: Readers salute the vaudevillian comedian and singer, who died on Sunday aged 90

13 March 2018

  • Ken Dodd in 2016

    'Non-stop gagster and comedy scientist': Paul O’Grady, Alan Davies and Frank Cottrell Boyce on Ken Dodd

    Paul O’Grady’s family cheered him outside court. Alan Davies couldn’t get a word in over lunch. And he got Frank Cottrell Boyce by the chuckle muscle. Stars remember the brilliantly bizarre comedian

12 March 2018

  • Ken Dodd at Bristol zoo

    Ken Dodd, the man from Mirthy-side: a career in clips

  • Ken Dodd during the run of Doddy’s Here! at the London Palladium, 1965.

    From the Guardian archive
    'No sex in Wigan': Ken Dodd's guide to UK comedy audiences - archive, 1960

  • Tributes laid outside Ken Dodd’s home in Liverpool

    Tickling sticks laid in tribute at Ken Dodd's Liverpool home

  • Ken Dodd arrives for an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

    'An ordinary guy who was also a comedy genius': readers on Ken Dodd

  • Ken Dodd: last of the music-hall maestros

  • Shortcuts
    Ken Dodd's other life – as a mega-selling singer of romantic ballads

  • Sir Ken Dodd obituary

  • Sir Ken Dodd, legend of comedy, dies aged 90

  • Share your tributes and memories of Ken Dodd

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