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Sir Ken Dodd obituary by Michael Coveney

Comedian with an endless desire to make people laugh known for his tickling sticks, Diddymen and marathon stage performancesThe last great "front-cloth" comic of our times, and the last standing true vaudevillian, Ken Dodd, who has died aged 90, was even more than that " a force of nature, a whirlwind, an ambulant torrent of surreal invention, physical and verbal, whose Liverpudlian cheek masked the melancholy of an …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AM on March 12, 2018

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