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Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story

Louis Barfe

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Description:A definitive life one of the best-loved and most enduring figures of British comedy, the eccentric genius and national treasure Ken Dodd, whose seven-decade career straddled the end of the era of variety and the golden age of television comedy. '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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story. To get started finding Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A definitive life one of the best-loved and most enduring figures of British comedy, the eccentric genius and national treasure Ken Dodd, whose seven-decade career straddled the end of the era of variety and the golden age of television comedy. '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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story. To get started finding Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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