Happiness and Tears : The Ken Dodd Story Paperback / softback
by Louis Barfe
Paperback / softback
Description
'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.
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/08/2020
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- ISBN:9781788549547
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:408 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:06/08/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781788549547