So saddened at the loss of Sir Ken Dodd - a man who should in my opinion have been knighted decades earlier. It's especially poignant because now that he's gone, we have virtually no surviving links to the great days of British variety theatre. It lives on through recorded media, but that's small consolation. Oh, what I'd give to have been around fifty years ago and been able to see him at his peak, in a crowded theatre by the seaside.
RIP Doddy. Thanks for all the plumptious laughs, and for making our lives so tattifilarious.
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