Ken Dodd

Ken Dodd, 82, wows the crowds with five-hour shows

Half-past one in the morning and I am sitting in Ken Dodd's dressing room drinking warm beer out of a pink tupperware mug, being berated about my pouring technique - 'Oooh never pour a lager like that, Lady Fryer. What are you thinking?' - and learning how to handle a 2,000-strong audience.

Eastern Airways plane named after comedian Ken Dodd

Veteran comedian Ken Dodd is to have a plane named after him by regional airline Eastern Airways.

A special caricature of the famous son of Knotty Ash has been painted on the fuselage of the Jetstream 41 aircraft as tribute to the star.

Dodd, 82, will be present at the unveiling at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Famed for his tickle sticks, he launched the year-old airline last July with plates full of jam sandwiches.

The Beatles: bigger than Ken Dodd - but only just

They called them the Swinging Sixties, so it comes as no surprise that there are four Beatles singles in the top five in a new compilation of the best-selling singles of the decade.

Ken Dodd 'top selling 60s star'

He is better known for his tickling stick and Diddy Men but new research shows Ken Dodd was one of the biggest selling chart stars of the 60s, beaten only by The Beatles.

Ken Dodd and Brian Harvey - together at last

News that veteran stick-tickler Dodd and East 17 chanteur Harvey are going to be in a Norfolk-set short film is sure to re-draw the map of great screen partnerships.

This is very much in keeping with the apparent supposition the show made of the viewer: Dodd went through the routine but it just seemed like a man retreading old ground and we were supposed to laugh simply because he was there doing it, because he was Ken Dodd and he is funny - no questions asked. We laughed at the first one, so now laugh at the second one.

Ken Dodd at the Palladium (Thames) well worth the price of admission for The Road to Mandalay with our Kenneth, wearing a solar topee flying a Union Jack, festooned with various crucial articles of a sanitary nature, armed with a fly swatter. Implausible appearances by Mrs Thatcher as the Good Fairy and a sea-lion from Las Vegas called Adolph.