If you need a personal life-coach for the New Year, you could do worse than consider Ken Dodd. He might not be your classic inspirational thought-leader, but this is a man who made his debut in ...

Anniversary celebrations have started marking the 90th birthday of the theatre where comedian Sir Ken Dodd road-tested his new gags and The Beatles were once booed onstage. Owner Wyre Council is ...

A woman obsessed with Ken Dodd yesterday pleaded guilty to harassment and setting fire to his home. Ruth Tagg, 34, posted a flaming rag through the 75-year-old comedian's letterbox, causing £ ...

In 1989 Ken Dodd was on trial for defrauding the Inland Revenue. George Carman, who, according to Barry Cryer, could have got Hitler off, tried to derail the trial before it left the station by ...

Ken Dodd: How Tickled We Were tells Sir Ken’s story from his boyhood growing up in the 1930s in Knotty Ash, through his big break into show business and then on to his unrivalled career in ...

A Bristol woman who became so obsessed with veteran Liverpool comic Ken Dodd that she set fire to his home has been told that she was to remain in hospital undergoing psychiatric assessment.

Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealing ...

Ken Dodd explains how film star Stan Laurel inspired him to get into comedy. With Matthew Paris and Glenn Mitchell. From 2012. Show more Ken Dodd explains to Matthew Parris why movie legend Stan ...

Sir Ken Dodd's widow says he often tested material at his New Year's Day performances in Fleetwood. The new centre will give the comedy legend's archive a permanent home in his home city of Liverpool.

The legendary Liverpudlian comedian Sir Ken Dodd was a star of stage and screen for more than 70 years. Famed for his tickling sticks, wild hair and buck teeth, he was an entertainer in the music ...

Ken Dodd discusses his eventful career with actor Ricky Tomlinson, in front of an audience at Liverpool's Royal Academy of Arts. A tribute to the Liverpudlian comic Ken Dodd, in which he discusses his ...