This is the first complete biography of the last of the great British comedians. A new generation of fans and comedians; including Johnny Vegas; Victoria Wood and Vic Reeves; are now rediscovering Dodds unique talents. Dodd has a huge and fiercely loyal fanbase and is still touring the country; performing in packed venues an average of two nights a week with his legendary four-hour sets. I do it because that is what I do. I do it because that is what I am; he said; when asked why he continues with this punishing schedule. Ken Dodds career has spanned over five decades as he went from singer to actor; and presently; most famously; comedian. He is considered the last; great; music-hall-inspired variety comic; but what drives this man whose career has been tainted by hardship? Dodd still lives in his childhood home of Knotty Ash and has never married; despite having two-long term fiances. In 1989; his strange relationship to money culminated in a trial for tax evasion; and he was also famously stalked by a mystery woman. How did this feather-duster salesman become one of the most loved; though least-lauded; British comedians of all time? Stephen Griffin interviewed friends; colleagues and fellow comedians to get inside the mind of the original Diddyman.
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