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He totally deserves it. Met him once at New Brighton Floral Pavilion and he was so friendly and charming and.... funny!
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Have I miss-remembered something here - apologies if I have, senior brain!
Didn't Ken Dodd get done for major tax evasion 20/30 years ago? If so then how on earth can he be considered worthy of a title. People are up in arms about Victoria Beckhm but surely this is a country mile more of a travesty. Dodd is, at least, well known in entertainment circles for living purely to make people laugh. My sister in law managed a theatre in Leamington Spa and had a childcare issue early one evening. Ken Dodd had turned up for his gig that evening and spotted her desperately trying to sort out my nephew and the theatre and offered to look after him until my brother got back from a meeting. By the time my brother arrived to pick him up, he didn't want to leave Mr Dodd behind -he was in fits of giggles. Just as well, really, as whenever Ken Dodd is doing a gig, the theatre manager doesn't get to go home until the wee hours of the morning! |
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Ken Dodd's Dad's dogs dead
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They just mentioned one of his jokes on the Today Programme.
"I don't owe the Inland Revenue any money, because I live by the coast" Made me chuckle. Well done Sir Ken, long overdue recognition. |
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It's a pleasant surprise to find that he's still alive. There can't be many of his contemporaries left.
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And as usual just as bloody farcical as most of the others from the hall of "fame".
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Ken Dodd's Dad's dogs dead
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Went to see him with my parents many years ago when I was a teenager - my brother, who was going through a stage of straight-faced teenage misery himself, laughed his head off!
Well done Mr Dodd! |
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A Tory and failed accountant, he is guilty as charged.
,edit. about bloody time, also |
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as was said at he trial, "Some accountants are comedians, but comedians are never accountants."
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Why are people congratulating him for getting something that means bugger all ?
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Why are people congratulating him for getting something that means bugger all ?
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Why are people congratulating him for getting something that means bugger all ?
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Never found him in the slightest bit funny.
Still, good luck to him. |
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Ken Dodd's Dad's dogs dead
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And as usual just as bloody farcical as most of the others from the hall of "fame".
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However we only get to hear about those who are famous we don't get to here of the other 75% as the media don't find them newsworthy
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That's why I specified from the hall of "fame".
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His tax scandal is overlooked, but not Lester Piggot's
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Never found him in the slightest bit funny.
Still, good luck to him. |
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AKA the "Jimmy Carr defence".
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And as usual just as bloody farcical as most of the others from the hall of "fame".
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He's funny but I don't think anyone who was clearly avoiding tax should be getting anything. Mind you, we can't be far off 'Sir' Gary Barlow and he's a tax-dodging little Tory tosspot. To have the audacity to ask poor people to donate to charity whilst he sits there on his millions in offshore accounts just really irritates me.
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His tax scandal is overlooked, but not Lester Piggot's
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I would like to hear about the rest though, the bloody media annoy people about honours as they only concentrate on the famous ( mind you some of them are very deserving for what they done with charities etc ) or ones the politicians have forced upon the honours committee , it would be interesting to see the stories of others.
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He's funny but I don't think anyone who was clearly avoiding tax should be getting anything. Mind you, we can't be far off 'Sir' Gary Barlow and he's a tax-dodging little Tory tosspot. To have the audacity to ask poor people to donate to charity whilst he sits there on his millions in offshore accounts just really irritates me.
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