1 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,400 LAUGHTER 2 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,400 I'm a performer. The turn. An entertainer. 3 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,640 You're not supposed to dawdle, you've gotta get along! Ya-hoo! 4 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,520 LAUGHTER 5 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,120 She said, "Do you know what an erogenous zone is?" 6 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:02,280 I said, "I know you can't park there after six o'clock." 7 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,720 "Have you ever tried an aphrodisiac?" I said, "I went out with a Norwegian girl once." 8 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,960 She said, "Do you believe in safe sex?" 9 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:12,640 I said, "I've got a handrail round the bed. 10 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,520 "I always try to keep one foot on the ground." 11 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,840 She said, "What about your libido?" I said, "I'm gonna swap it for a Sierra." 12 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:24,880 'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Ken Dodd!' 13 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,080 APPLAUSE 14 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,560 Tickled I am, to be here with you tonight. 15 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,160 Has anybody seen my show before? AUDIENCE: Yes! 16 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,120 Would you mind telling me what I do next, please? 17 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,880 Yuletide, ladies and gentlemen, is nearly upon is. 18 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,080 Only 12 more shoplifting days to Christmas. 19 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,120 Another wonderful day of what's been a wonderful week. 20 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:50,360 I'd be out here all night, cos I'm stage-struck. Can you tell? 21 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,440 If you don't laugh at the jokes, I'll follow you home and shout 'em through the letter box. 22 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,480 I will smile! 23 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,680 Ken Dodd is a national institution. 24 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:14,160 He's been a professional comedian for 53 years. 25 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,480 He's had 20 hit records, including Tears, which sold more than two million copies. 26 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,560 This year, he celebrated his 80th birthday, 27 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,000 still travelling the country, performing his Happiness show three times a week. 28 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,120 Did you always prefer doing live performances? 29 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,040 Always. Still do, yeah. 30 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,600 You play an audience like you play an instrument. 31 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,560 An audience is... I've never actually done a solo act on my own. 32 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,840 It's always been a double act - me and the audience. 33 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,320 Is it different when you do telly? 34 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,520 Yes, on television, you're just performing to a set of wires, 35 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:53,840 a camera, or... 36 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,040 They say, "Don't look over there, look over there." 37 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,880 "Why am I doing that?" "It's a better camera shot." 38 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,920 "Oh, really? All I can see there is 'exit'. 39 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:05,400 "That could be a hint." 40 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,800 # Happiness, happiness 41 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,880 # The greatest gift that we possess 42 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,920 # I thank the Lord that we've been blessed 43 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:19,960 # With more than our share of... Everybody! 44 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,160 # Happiness, happiness 45 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,080 # The greatest gift that we possess 46 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,040 # I thank the Lord that I've been blessed 47 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,080 # With more than my share of happiness 48 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:40,440 # I've got more than our share of ha-ppi-ness! # 49 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:43,440 'Happiness!' 50 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,080 "They made us laugh." 51 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,440 You can't MAKE anybody laugh. 52 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,520 Did you know that? No. 53 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,440 The song, "Make 'em laugh," but you can't. 54 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,160 Really? No. 55 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,920 You can winkle it out. 56 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,400 It's already there. 57 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,920 If it isn't there, you can't pull it out. 58 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:07,800 It's in everybody. 59 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,440 And how do you winkle it out? Happiness, happiness. 60 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,200 That's the comedian's job, innit? 61 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,680 With one of these. 62 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,280 HE LAUGHS 63 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:23,120 Right. 64 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,840 I am a commercial comedian. 65 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:44,320 I travel the length and breadth of the British Isles, 66 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,520 I travel right up to the Shetlands, 67 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,120 a few shows there, right down to the Channel Islands, 68 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,480 across through Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Hunstanton. 69 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,320 My ambition was to play every theatre in Britain. 70 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:04,080 Ahoy there! Ahoy there! 71 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:05,840 This is it, folks. 72 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,000 Have you read this? 73 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,480 Um, I've been through that one. Does it make you laugh? 74 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,000 I've been through them all. 75 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,640 That one's got one very good joke in it. 76 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,440 One?! 77 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,840 One in the whole book of Jewish jokes?! 78 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:25,040 No, there'd be more than that. 79 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,480 You've got that, haven't you? 80 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,040 You've got this one, haven't you? 81 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,440 I think I'll take me coat off to this. 82 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,040 Oh, good gracious me! 83 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,160 You haven't got that? 84 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,360 Have you bought many books in here? 85 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,360 Over the years, I think I've... Thousands. 86 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,680 Thousands of books. 87 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,000 In fact, I've been barred from buying any more, 88 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,240 but I still come down just the same. 89 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,960 How about this one? 90 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,000 Sorry? What kind of things do you buy in here? 91 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,880 Oh, books... 92 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,840 Books on humour, books about comedians, entertainers, 93 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:14,880 film, 94 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,480 Dickens. 95 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,320 I'm a Dickens maniac. Are you? 96 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,280 You read him a lot? Yes. 97 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:27,040 Has anyone ever written a good book about you? No. 98 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,360 Yes, one. 99 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:32,480 I had, a long, long, long time ago, 100 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:37,840 Michael Billington of the Guardian wrote quite a good one called How Tickled I Am, 101 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:42,120 but since then, one or two...pirates, 102 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:47,000 brigands have said they'd do a biography. 103 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:48,720 I said, "No, no. 104 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,760 "If anybody's gonna do a biography, I will write the biography." 105 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:55,120 He said, "No, no, no. 106 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,680 "If you won't co-operate, we'll do it without you." 107 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,400 "Carry on, then." 108 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,480 Do you think you ever will write your...? Of course I will, one of these days. 109 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,440 One of these days, I will write the... 110 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,320 I've been around for quite a while 111 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,880 and I've been in show business for over 50 years, 112 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,120 so I reckon... I've been an entertainer for over 50 years, 113 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,240 so I think I should write an entertaining book. 114 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,000 I'd like to say how tickled I am, 115 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,440 how tickled I am, can you see that? 116 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,120 I'll do it again, this lady seemed to like it. 117 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,400 Put the binoculars away now, dear. 118 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,560 I was born in Liverpool, on the outskirts, 119 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,400 Knotty Ash. Knotty Ash. 120 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,560 My father, Dad, Pop, Arthur, 121 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,200 was a very, very funny man, a brilliant comedian. 122 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,760 He used to tell jokes all the time. 123 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:03,240 I think that's how I learnt to tell jokes. 124 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,600 Most little boys want to be like their fathers 125 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,120 and I learned how to tell jokes by my dad telling me jokes. 126 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,920 My father's jokes, I still do, 127 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,880 and he got them from his father. 128 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,880 So I'm still telling jokes... 129 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,760 And they always get big laughs. 130 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,240 What's the joke...? 131 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,160 "How many children have you got? 132 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,880 "Eight? Have you really? Stand up and take a bow. 133 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:40,880 "No, sit down and take a rest. 134 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,640 "Eight children... 135 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,840 "Do you live in a shoe? You must know what to do. 136 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,280 "Eight children... 137 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:55,640 "What a good job you stitched that hole up in his pyjamas. 138 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,520 "You know what they say - a stitch in time saves..." 139 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,960 LAUGHTER 140 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,480 I've been telling that joke for 50 years. 141 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,680 More than 50 years, it still gets a good laugh. 142 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:17,760 Tell us about your childhood, Ken, and about your family background. 143 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:23,120 A comic has two biographies, two life stories. 144 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,680 You have a real one and then you have the one that you get laughs with, 145 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:30,200 the one you tell the audience. I'd better tell you the real one first. 146 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,800 I'm the middle one of three. 147 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:36,320 There's Billy, my older brother, two years older than me 148 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:41,400 and June, two years younger than me. My mother and father, Arthur and Sarah Dodd. 149 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,080 My dad was a coal merchant, a coal man, Knotty Ash. 150 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:48,160 And I had a wonderful childhood. 151 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,080 Oh, fantastic. 152 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,800 Round Knotty Ash, there's fields. 153 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,520 So when I was a little boy, 154 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,160 we just went mad, it was wonderful. 155 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:07,480 'Like the moth, the Diddy firefly 156 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,000 'makes its home in some article of clothing 157 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,320 'where it will pass the winter months smouldering gently 158 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,880 'and laying its fried eggs. 159 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,680 'Sometimes, the owner of the clothes 160 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:23,680 'is unaware of the firefly's presence until it is too late.' 161 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:26,120 Oh, help! 162 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,600 By the blathering bagpipes of Killiekrankie, 163 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,960 I've got fireflies in my kilt! Och! 164 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,360 Quick! Put 'em out! Somebody put 'em out! 165 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,080 I'll put yous out, Hamish, me bucko. 166 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,440 Quick, stand over this soda siphon. That's it, me boy. 167 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:45,640 Oh, Mum, that's a gr-r-r-and feeling! 168 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,960 Och, I'm not a bit put out about being put out! 169 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:04,320 If you think about it, there is a belief in small people all over the world, 170 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,480 this belief in magical small people, 171 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,600 leprechauns, pixies, boggarts. 172 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,400 Fairies, if you like. Talking animals, whimsy. 173 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,920 It's the humour of Wind In The Willows, 174 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,320 the Muppets, Walt Disney. 175 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,200 It's the humour of small people. 176 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,720 "The mole had been working very hard all morning, 177 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,520 "spring cleaning his little home. 178 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,840 "First with brooms, then with dusters, 179 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,080 "on ladders, steps and chairs, 180 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,560 "with a brush and a pail of whitewash 181 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:39,600 "till he had dust in his throat and eyes and splashes of whitewash 182 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,160 "all over his black fur. 183 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,120 "It was small wonder that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor 184 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,440 "and said, 'Bother!' 185 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,920 "'Bother! Oh, blow!' 186 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:54,400 "And also, 'Hang spring cleaning.'" 187 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,600 # We are the Diddymen 188 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,600 # Itty-bitty Diddymen 189 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,360 # We are the Diddymen who always have a bash... # 190 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,160 So I discovered the Diddymen, these little whimsical characters, 191 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,800 the Diddymen, who live in Knotty Ash, 192 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,000 and have the jam butty mines and the broken biscuit repair works, 193 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,280 snuff quarries, and the gravy wells. 194 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,200 I'm beginning to get fed up with you. 195 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,800 I don't care. Why? 196 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,600 I'm going. You're going? Going. 197 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,400 I'm jacking it in. 198 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,640 LAUGHTER 199 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:33,880 Jacking it in?! 200 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,600 I'm jacking it in. 201 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,120 But if you leave me, I'll be in a hole, I'll be in a mess. 202 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:40,560 Don't care. 203 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:45,040 Remember, Dicky, ambition - the grass is always greener the other side of the street. 204 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,960 You know who said that? Tom Jones. 205 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,760 LAUGHTER 206 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,080 You must have enough now. 207 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,800 Thank you. 208 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,360 What's your name? Eileen. 209 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,960 Eileen! Eileen from Skem. 210 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,640 To the left or the right? To the left. 211 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:18,680 Eileen from Skem. 212 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,200 That'll give me some happiness. 213 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,360 Yeah, well, that's what you need. 214 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:27,000 Thank you, Eileen. 215 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,560 Thank you, Judy Jones. 216 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:32,200 Call again any time. Tatty bye. 217 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:34,240 All right, young man? 218 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:36,800 Thank you, sir. I bet you say that to all the boys! 219 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:44,040 # I don't believe that anybody... # 220 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,560 It's your money. 221 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:51,800 What did I do with it? 222 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,880 # And all the roads we have to walk are winding... # 223 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,240 You're good at walking backwards, missus. You could get a job as an ice cream girl. 224 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,640 You can do that afterwards if you want to. 225 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,000 I'm not saying now. 226 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,240 See there. International library. Ah, yeah. 227 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,840 'I started thinking about, what is a joke? 228 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:27,120 'I want to know why. Why does the human being laugh? 229 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,280 'Why do we make this funny noise? Ha-ha-ha. 230 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,680 'Your breath comes in short pants. Why don't your ears light up? 231 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,320 'Why doesn't your nose wiggle from side to side? 232 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:41,400 'Why this...? What is a laugh? 233 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,800 'Why? What goes on in here? 234 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,680 'Why do human beings laugh when they're confronted with a funny situation, 235 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,200 'a funny picture, or somebody tells them a funny joke? 236 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,280 'What is humour, what is a joke? 237 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,280 'How does one be a comedian?' 238 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:06,400 LAUGHTER 239 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,440 I used to come here every day of the week - months unending, 240 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,800 just sit here and read - looking at the index 241 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,160 and look up the word laughter and humour 242 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:22,600 look up the word comedy, comedians, clowns, circus, 243 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,920 music hall, variety, theatre. 244 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:30,400 I used to sit down there and read and read and read and, er, 245 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,320 make notes, of course. 246 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,560 LAUGHTER 247 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,960 Little old lady went to the doctor's, she said, 248 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:03,400 "Doctor, can I have some more sleeping pills for my husband?" He said, "Why?" "Cos he's woke up!" 249 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:08,840 Another old lady goes to the doctor's and says, "Can I have some of them sleeping tablets? 250 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:13,000 He says, "No, if you can't sleep at night, do it nature's way - organically," 251 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,120 "I can't play with..." He said, "No, no... 252 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,520 "Before you go to bed have a tot of something." 253 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,080 "I do that already, doctor!" "You do?" 254 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:27,080 "Before I go to bed at night, I always have eight whiskies, four gins, two vodkas, a large brandy, 255 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:29,680 "a Martini and an egg flip." 256 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,080 "And you can't sleep?" "No, I'm up all night singing." 257 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,960 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE 258 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,080 Thank you. Thank you. 259 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:50,520 Thank you for being a tottifilarious and a plumptious audience. We wish you good health. 260 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,960 It's just an endless font of jokes in your head. Yes. 261 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,360 Can you ever turn them off? No. 262 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,160 Does it ever torment you? 263 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,000 Yes. Yes, sometimes. 264 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,600 Sometimes you, you'd like to think very seriously about something 265 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:12,920 and jokes keep popping into your head, so you have to learn to control it. Yeah. 266 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:14,800 It must be quite hard then? No, no. 267 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,680 "That's enough for now, thank you. That's quite enough, thank you. 268 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,880 "Right, go on... Kenny, go to your room." 269 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,240 So... Is that what you have to do? 270 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:29,120 "Kenny, go to your room and he goes there and Kenneth, you can come out now." 271 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:31,800 And I start thinking about something seriously. 272 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,280 There's two or three people in here, I think. 273 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,160 Two or three personalities, two or three characters, 274 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,640 two or three, erm, 275 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:47,160 strong...personalities who would like to be heard. Yeah, I think so. 276 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,800 There's a show business Ken Dodd, 277 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,840 and I think there's erm, there's a thinking Ken Dodd 278 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,600 and, er, 279 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,240 hopefully there's an amusing Ken Dodd, I hope so, anyway - 280 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,040 one that can see the funny side. 281 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,840 This is the mouth of the River Mersey and there is my home - 282 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,640 the city of Liverpool, the city of laughter, city of tears. 283 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:50,440 This is the city that enabled me to be a performer 284 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,720 and here we are at the mouth of the Mersey, 285 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,200 just behind me are the Anthony Gormley men. 286 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:57,760 This one here is called Sid. 287 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,080 This is Sid. 288 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,000 We like that. 289 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,160 We could go now but I'm going to do one more 290 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:05,760 because I like your movement. 291 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:09,840 Over there you can see Wales, somewhere up there is Scotland 292 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:14,440 and straight on there going west thousands of people have left 293 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:20,080 this wonderful city to find adventure and success. 294 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:31,240 When I was a little boy, I could remember when we had 295 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:34,800 the dock road, what they call the docker's umbrella, 296 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,160 which was the overhead railway, 297 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,040 and lots of things were moved by huge great carthorses 298 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,320 pulling great loads of goods into the docks. 299 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:23,480 In Paris, all the chairs and tables are out on the streets. In Liverpool, we call it eviction. 300 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:28,400 ...From Liverpool. He's had four wooden legs making a coffee table. 301 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:44,560 Every week we used to have a Dodd family journey to a theatre just up the road in Fraser Street 302 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,120 called the Shakespeare Theatre of Varieties. 303 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,040 I dare say I was very fortunate because 304 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:02,040 I was taken to the Variety Theatres by my mother and father 305 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:07,360 and I saw some of the greats just at probably the back end of their careers. 306 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:12,280 And that's why I fell in love with music hall, with theatre. 307 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,720 The word variety really means a variety of skills. 308 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:25,200 All variety artists, entertainers, jugglers, acrobats, comedians, 309 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:29,800 ventriloquists, they are all like little one-man businesses 310 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,760 or one-woman businesses. 311 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,160 'Of course no show at this time is complete without a juggler. 312 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,160 'This next artist is considered by many the greatest in the world - Rudy Cardenas.' 313 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,240 I worked with Rudy Cardenas from Mexico and Rudy Horn from Germany 314 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,200 in Blackpool when I was in season with them there. 315 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,000 Every day they would rehearse from nine in the morning 'til five at night, 316 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,880 go home, have their tea, come back and do two shows. 317 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,560 The big specialities - the acrobats, the jugglers, 318 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:17,120 people who do deeds of immense daring, you have to go to the circus. 319 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:21,160 SLOW DRUM BEATS 320 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,520 APPLAUSE 321 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,880 Can you ever imagine ever doing anything different? 322 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:39,000 I think I, er, I like to be in charge. 323 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,840 You may have noticed that. 324 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,040 You are a total control freak, Ken, I have to say. No, never. 325 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,720 You so are! How dare you(!) 326 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,440 I mean, I'm bad but you are worse than me. Come on. 327 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,000 Women won't do what they're told, that's all. 328 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,880 It couldn't be any other way as a comedian, with the career that you've had, you couldn't do that. 329 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,840 I could but it wouldn't be as fun. 330 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:05,280 BANJO MUSIC 331 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,160 I served my apprenticeship and the clubs 332 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,760 and the after-dinner entertainments, smoker's concerts, 333 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,760 boiler makers, hotpots, 334 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:21,600 docker's soirees - anywhere where there was an audience, I'd go along 335 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:27,360 and I would do either my ventriloquist act or my comedian's act. 336 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:33,120 IN GERMAN ACCENT: What is this chips? And wurst. The wurst chips and where is the meat pie? The cat's ate it. 337 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:36,080 Tom cat! I'll have it exterminated. 338 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,920 I will rid the world of tom cats. 339 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,560 Under the new regime, the master race will not have tom cats. 340 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:44,080 Where is the Reich pudding? 341 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,240 The Reich pudding, the cat ate that too. 342 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,280 No Reich pudding? No Reich pudding on Wednesday, 343 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:55,440 no Reich pudding on Thursday, this is the third Reich pudding what is forbodden this week. 344 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,520 Treat it in my book, Mein Bumpf. 345 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,200 You have read Mein Bumpf? Yes, from cover to cover. 346 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,560 Under the new regime... 347 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:08,960 Young lady, young man, hello dear. Oh, same dentist. LAUGHTER 348 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:14,360 Hello. Now he looks a comedian to begin with. Thank you. 349 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:17,280 You don't look anywhere near funny enough. 350 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:21,480 You don't look funny, are you funny? No. Do you feel funny? 351 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,440 A bit. Oh, good. 352 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,080 A bit! 353 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,840 I feel funny all the bloody time. Funny - weird! 354 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,800 It's very kind of you to come along. 355 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,200 You're not all from the same place? ALL: No. No. 356 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,960 But you all, er, want to be comedians? 357 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:39,640 ALL: Yes. 358 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,880 That would be all right. Why? Why do you want to be a comedian? 359 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,400 To be like you. 360 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,640 Oh, he's a bloody smoothy, isn't he? 361 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,800 Do you mean you want to be famous and make a lot of money? Yeah. That'd be all right. 362 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,560 Yeah, well, it's a good motivator, believe me. 363 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,280 What do you want to be a comedian for? 364 00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:04,400 I just think doing a gig ages ago and seeing someone really, really belly laugh, 365 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,120 I just think the feeling that you get from that, you don't get that very often, do you? 366 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:13,600 So, I think, that's my motivation. Good for you. 367 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,160 When I go on stage I get a massive rush of adrenalin 368 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,120 but when I come off, I always feel dead low and disappointed that it's over. 369 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:24,640 I just wondered if you feel the same and if you do, how do you handle it? 370 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:31,240 It's something that you'll never lose cos you always think you can do better. 371 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,360 You always think, you could've done better. 372 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:37,080 Remember you used to get your school report 373 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:42,320 and it'd say, you know, "Good at gymnastics... 374 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,480 "fair at English, mathematics - could do better." 375 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:52,920 Well, it's the same with being an entertainer, you always think you can do better 376 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:57,200 and sometimes you can but you've just got to remember it for next time 377 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,840 and next time, do better. 378 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,080 But you'll never, if you're, erm, 379 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,320 if you really want to be an entertainer, a good entertainer, 380 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,120 you'll never actually be satisfied. 381 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:18,520 I learned the trade. 382 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,760 I practised on audiences. 383 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:29,440 I learned to read an audience's facial expressions. 384 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:32,800 I learned how to play a theatre. 385 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,800 I used to think I was wonderful and marvellous in bed 386 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,200 then I found out all my girlfriends had asthma. 387 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,360 I have thought of going into politics. As a matter of fact... 388 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:53,680 To be honest the job I fancy is Chancellor of the Exchequer. At least I'd be reunited with my money. 389 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,960 LAUGHTER But I... 390 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,240 'So, er, do you still get nervous before you go on? 391 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,920 'The thing that goes through your mind before you go on is, 392 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:14,000 'you say, "Will I be OK tonight? Will I be able to do a good show?' 393 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,040 "Will I remember the gags, will I remember the jokes, 394 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,840 "will, erm, will I remember what I'm supposed to be doing?" 395 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,720 The thing to remember if you are an entertainer and you are worried about going on is, 396 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,760 they really want you - they want you to be good. 397 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,800 They want to laugh. 398 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,720 So really you shouldn't be nervous but you are. 399 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,240 There's only one cure for stage fright, keep doing it. 400 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:42,800 Keep doing it, listen to what the muse inside you told you. 401 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,760 It told you one day, "You can do it, you can do it." 402 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,240 So go on and do it. 403 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,520 So, yeah, yeah, of course you get nervous, you do the rituals, 404 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:57,800 but you think to yourself, "Yeah, go on. Have a go." 405 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,400 APPLAUSE AND CHEERING 406 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,240 Oh, beautiful crowd, what can I say? 407 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,160 Thank you! 408 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,400 Thank you very much. Thank you. 409 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,480 No, I mean, how tickled I am on me vacation. 410 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,480 Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I feel absolutely tottifilarious and full of plumptiousness. 411 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,160 It makes me absolutely discummicurated to see that 412 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,920 so many of you have turned up for the free soup and... 413 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,040 Are you all enjoying yourselves? ALL: Yes! 414 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,120 Why, what are you doing? 415 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,400 Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we have a fabulous show for you, 416 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:43,920 we've got artists from all the four corners of the labour exchange. 417 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:52,040 # Love is like a violin 418 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:59,440 # With its strings around your heart 419 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:06,440 # Soft and sweet as dreams begin 420 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:15,320 # Sadly crying when you part 421 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:21,520 # Make my heart your violin... # 422 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:27,760 Show business, you have to be many, many things. 423 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,120 You have to be the business side of show business, it's very important. 424 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,440 There's the business side, the power side, 425 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,560 trying to get to where you want to be 426 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:41,400 and when you get to where you want to be then you have to start thinking about how to stay there. 427 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,560 Then, ultimately, there comes the question, "Do you want to stay there?" 428 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,840 The whole pattern of show business has changed. At one time 429 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:57,880 you set your stall out, put your bill up and did a season. 430 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:02,160 That is you do anything from 6 weeks to 26 weeks. 431 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:08,080 Er, when we were in Blackpool we used to go opening Whit and go right through till Christmas, 432 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:12,440 twice nightly, three times on a Saturday. 433 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,560 The Palladium, I did the longest run ever there, from Easter till Christmas, 434 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:22,360 but now it's all one-nighters. So, whereas at one time you could leave your props 435 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:28,320 at the theatre and just go there in the car, now you have to take everything with you - 436 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,680 amplifiers, musical instruments, costumes, you take it all with you. 437 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,800 So the whole pattern of show business, at one time... LOUDSPEAKER 438 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,680 That'll be for me(!) 439 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,960 HE CHUCKLES ..At one time... 440 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,960 'Ladies and gentlemen, we are now approaching Nuneaton. 441 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:50,200 'Change here for services to Cambridge, Stansted Airport and services to Coventry. 442 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,240 'Nuneaton is your next station, if you are leaving this train here, 443 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,800 'please remember to take all your belongings.' 444 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:00,280 Well, we're not going to any of those places. I'm going to London. 445 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,760 "Depicted backstage, with his trademark pink tickling stick, 446 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,520 "the painting reveals the vulnerability of the comic." 447 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,520 I think what he's thinking, he's saying, it is sort of, "To be, or not to be," 448 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,640 "To do, or not to do". I think he's thinking, "Did I get it right? 449 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,960 "This time did I get it right? 450 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:09,840 "This time, did I remember to...put the punch line in the right place? 451 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,480 "How did I do?" 452 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,320 I think my mother and father would be very pleased with me. 453 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:30,240 "But the streets of London, to be beheld at the very height of their glory, 454 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:35,200 "should be seen on a dark, dull, mirky winter's night 455 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,920 "when there is just enough damp gently stealing down, 456 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,920 "to make the pavement greasy, 457 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,040 "without cleansing it of any of its impurities, 458 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,800 "and when the heavy, lazy mist, which hangs over every object, 459 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,480 "makes the gas-lamps look brighter, and the brilliantly lighted shops more splendid 460 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,480 "from the contrast that they present to the darkness around. 461 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,400 "All the people who are at home on such a night as this, 462 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:08,200 "seem disposed to make themselves as snug and comfortable as possible 463 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,040 "and the passengers in the streets have excellent reason to envy 464 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,600 "the fortunate individuals who are seated by their own fireside." 465 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,400 I've lived in London throughout the years. Couldn't commute back to Knotty Ash 466 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,360 even if I wanted to. I lived in a hotel in German Street, 467 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:32,400 and then in an apartment in Kensington, and don't forget, this was in '65, 468 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:38,000 'the Swinging Sixties, so Carnaby Street was at the height of its fame, 469 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:43,160 'everywhere was wonderful, yeah. London was the most exciting place in the world. 470 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:48,200 'You met some very interesting people, some very eccentric people, 471 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:53,000 'very strange people. I was quite normal compared to them. 472 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,400 'I met a famous gangster, then the politicians started to come - 473 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:02,080 'Harold Wilson, Bessie Braddock... Lots of politicians came to the show. 474 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,000 'I think they wanted the gags, the jokes.' 475 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,840 RECORDING OF OLD SHOW PLAYS 476 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,920 DRUM ROLL 'Ladies and gentlemen, 477 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,400 'please welcome...Ken Dodd!' 478 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,600 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE FROM OLD SHOW 479 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:25,800 By Jove, how tickled I am! By Jove, how tickled we were. 480 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,680 How tickled we are. By Jove, Missus! Hoo-hoo-hoo-ho-ho! 481 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:34,520 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE FADES 482 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,400 This is where I used to get told off every night. 483 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,120 Every night, "Mr Dodd, you're 30 seconds over. 484 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:53,120 "Mr Dodd, you're a minute over." If you did it too many times, you got a letter from the head office. 485 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,200 I think this is how I became a stickler for time, 486 00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:01,400 for punctuality. I owe it all to this stage manager's desk. 487 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,800 But now that you can go on for as long as you want to, 488 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,960 is that why you do it, because you can? Today's a different world entirely. 489 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,760 Today there's one... HE CHUCKLES 490 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,040 ..there's one huge difference. 491 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,400 Today, I work for myself. So I'm the boss, 492 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,680 and I say to myself, "Mr Dodd, you're 30 seconds over." 493 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,880 So... BLOWS RASPBERRY 494 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:30,240 Every performer, his dream is to play here at the Palladium. 495 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,480 I had that honour several times, 496 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,360 but the '65 one, 497 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:40,720 of course, was the big one, because I'd never played in London before. 498 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:43,720 So this was a big challenge for me. 499 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:46,000 John Osborne brought the entire cast 500 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,200 of a farce called Meals On Wheels, 501 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,200 he wanted to show them what it was like for a comic, 502 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:53,720 how a comic timed his laughs, 503 00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:58,960 the rhythm that a comic used for gags. 504 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:02,360 He was very nice, he came round afterwards and invited me to tea, 505 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,560 so I went to his house, had tea with John Osborne. Very nice. 506 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,080 I was quite well-known, you know. 507 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,840 Did you miss Knotty Ash? Not really, 508 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:15,520 it was too exciting here. I was having a whale of a time here. 509 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,680 And besides, they all came from Knotty Ash to see the show. 510 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,920 I remember being here... we opened at Easter, on Good Friday, 511 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,280 and we were here in May, and they had the Cup final 512 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,640 and it went into extra time, 513 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,640 and the show had just come down, on a Saturday afternoon, 514 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,400 so we were all looking at the television and it went into extra time, 515 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,680 and Liverpool won the Cup final for the very first time. 516 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,000 First time Liverpool had ever won the Cup final, that was the year they won it, in '65. 517 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 In the evening, all the fans were all round the Palladium, 518 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,600 all shouting, "We want Doddy!" 519 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:57,680 I don't know what they were gonna do to me if they got me, but they were all round, all cheering... 520 00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,680 Yeah, that was very exciting. 521 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,880 It was a good time to be a Liverpudlian. It was indeed, yeah. 522 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,800 '65 was great, yeah. 523 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,000 I was probably one of the most... 524 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,840 well, well-known of all the...whackers. 525 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,000 That's what we are, we're whackers. 526 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,800 'The show business personality of 1965, king of the diddy people, 527 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,240 'Ken Dodd.' 528 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:23,560 # Can't buy me love 529 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,240 # Lo-o-ve Can't buy me love... # 530 00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:31,240 "Ken Dodd, the people's comic in the truest sense, 531 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:34,920 "returned in triumph to the Palladium last night. The applause for him 532 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:39,280 "was huge, heartfelt, instantaneous and deserved." 533 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,600 "His skill is in the construction of the delivery and his judgement of our mood." 534 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,760 "Mr Dodd is one of the most accomplished performers to have hit the London stage." 535 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,120 "Doddy has become the darling of the London scene 536 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,880 "and is in danger of being captured by the intellectual set." 537 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,440 We've always, always thought it might be a good question to put to Mr Kenneth Dodd 538 00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:02,160 and the members of The Beatles, 539 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,720 "To what extent to they attribute their success 540 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:09,800 "to their hairstyles?" And we'll start by asking that question now of Mr Ken Dodd. 541 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,040 The hairstyle? Well, I think it has a great deal to do with my... 542 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,720 with my what? Success? Your hairstyle. Oh, yes! Well, I think so, yes. 543 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:20,840 I like to keep it in trim. I eat a lot of Shredded Wheat cos it's good for the hair, 544 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:25,040 and I have it cut twice a year, short, back and sides and a bit off the shoulders... 545 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:26,880 What do you think about the boys? 546 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,120 I think it's a wonderful style, 547 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,800 of course, they're different from me. With them being Martians... 548 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,040 ..a professor of archaeology at Knotty Ash University 549 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:44,320 has discovered some tablets which say, "The Beatles are definitely Martians, 550 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,480 "Grundy's their leader." 551 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,440 How long have you known this, Kenneth? Bill Grundy? 552 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:56,000 I've known he was out of this world for a long time! As Martians, I think it's a very good hairstyle. 553 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,600 I'd like one of those myself. 554 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:10,160 # Tears for souvenirs Are all you've left me... # 555 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,480 '65 was THE season, 556 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:17,720 my West End debut and...everything. Have you ever driven into town, 557 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:22,120 and all the lights have been green for you? You know? 558 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:30,200 It was one of those times. Everything went just right in that season. 559 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:37,200 1965, I recorded Tears For Souvenirs and it went to Number One, 560 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,040 and it stayed in the charts for 18 weeks. 561 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,120 18 weeks - wonderful. 562 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:47,360 All the pop groups, they couldn't find things bad enough to say! 563 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,280 This was a middle of the road song, sung by...you know... 564 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,720 ..none of the rock'n'rollers could get in. 565 00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:00,800 I kept them out for 18 weeks and I got a golden disc. 566 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,200 It's on two million now. 567 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:09,160 # Once more To tears of happiness... # 568 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,280 'What do you think of Mr Ken Dodd?' 569 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,160 He's great. He's marvellous, he's a good lad. 570 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:17,680 Lovely hair! Lovely hair. Hair is lovely! 571 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:22,240 We call it "her" in Liverpool, you see, Judy with the "fer her". 572 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,400 THEY LAUGH 573 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:29,320 A fella went into one of those shops once in Liverpool where they sell those minks and things, 574 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,040 and he says, "Give us one of those there hery coats." 575 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,600 "I beg your pardon, sir, what fur?" 576 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,240 He said, "For the Judy." 577 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,160 You do comedy as well, don't you? 578 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,000 I've seen John, you do some... I just say lines. 579 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,400 You say some very good lines! Oh, thank you. 580 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,080 That one about rattling the jewels, very good. 581 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,120 Have you worked gags into your act? 582 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:54,720 I don't know...most of our gags are made up, 583 00:40:54,720 --> 00:40:58,600 so they either die or we keep 'em if they go down well. 584 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,840 That jewel thing, we thought of the night before... 585 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:08,000 So you'd like to do a bit more comedy? Yeah, but it's so hard, isn't it?! 586 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,720 I imagine it's easier for four fellas than one. 587 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:15,360 It'll be easier when we get him in the group! We'll leave it all up to him then. 588 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,320 INAUDIBLE 589 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,240 'I don't think I was a natural. A reasonably funny face, 590 00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:40,920 'but no, I wasn't the schoolboy... I wasn't the class comedian. 591 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,000 'No, no, no. 592 00:41:48,240 --> 00:41:52,440 'What I was, was completely stage-struck. 593 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,120 'Oh, yes. I was stage-struck. 594 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,120 'Once I'd seen the shows, I wanted to be on that stage. 595 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,920 'It really didn't matter what it was, 596 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:12,240 'whether I was a comedian, ventriloquist, juggler... 597 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,440 '..So, yes, I think I was stage-struck.' 598 00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:27,400 "But be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, 599 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,920 "some achieve greatness... 600 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,400 "and some have greatness thrust upon them. 601 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:41,160 "Thy fates open their hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them, 602 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,000 "and to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, 603 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,880 "cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh..." 604 00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,520 People said, "You'll never do it, Doddy." "Course I will," I said. 605 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,520 "You'll never stick to the script." I said, "What do you think I am? Do you think I'm stupid?" 606 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,640 When you're a comic, yes, OK, 607 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:09,000 you start off by telling jokes, but throughout your career, 608 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,240 you have to be many other things as well. 609 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:15,240 To be a successful entertainer, you have to be a comedian, an orator, 610 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:17,880 you have to be an actor, a poet, 611 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,600 you have to be a creative writer, 612 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,240 you have to be an impressionist, be able to do dialects, 613 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:30,760 so you have to do about a dozen things to make the one entertainer. 614 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:35,240 'Have you got a word of advice for somebody who's starting out in show business?' 615 00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:37,640 I'll come to you later, the boys first. 616 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:42,120 Help! Get a job, help... What do you say, Ringo? 617 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,560 Do your best, you know. 618 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,480 That's grand, that. 619 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,080 LAUGHTER OK, a word of advice from Mr Kenneth Dodd. 620 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,080 Well, I think anybody starting out in show business... 621 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,000 Is that a serious question? Yes. 622 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,400 ..Anyone starting out in show business should be like The Beatles and be original. 623 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,040 Originality is the secret of success. 624 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,160 Where do you go after you've done a season like you did at the Palladium? 625 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:21,080 In terms of, you know... Oh, you go up after that. You go to Blackpool. 626 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,800 You play the Blackpool Opera House, which is even bigger than this. 627 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,400 This is big. This is very, very big. 628 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:33,280 I think the Liverpool Empire is just as big, or even a little bit bigger. 629 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,640 I think this is 2,300, 2,500... 2,500. 2,500. 630 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:41,680 Well, the Liverpool Empire is, or was, 2,750, 631 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,800 and the Blackpool Opera House is 3,000...either 3,500 or 3,250, 632 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:51,280 so they're very big theatres, but beautifully built, 633 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:56,760 so that the acoustics and sightlines are absolutely brilliant. 634 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,840 # Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside 635 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,640 # Oh, I do like to be beside the sea... # 636 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,600 PUPPET LAUGHS 637 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,560 I...I started in 1954 638 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,240 and I played all the theatres in Britain 639 00:45:33,240 --> 00:45:36,880 and I gradually built up my own...clientele 640 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,960 and even now I go to the same places year after year. 641 00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,400 I've got like a window-cleaning round 642 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,840 and I just go along to wherever it is, north, south, east, west, 643 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:52,200 and the people who I've... entertained before 644 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,120 come back to see me, so I'm very, very fortunate 645 00:45:55,120 --> 00:46:00,600 in that I don't have to rely on television or radio. 646 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,880 I think, in the early days, for the first 20 or 30 years, 647 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:10,680 I used to notch up about... oh, anything. 300, 350 shows a year. 648 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,760 Every day, in fact. Every day, and sometimes twice daily. 649 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,840 Sometimes three times. 650 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,720 But now I try to do about three or four a week. 651 00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:26,960 At one time trains used to go, "Tiddly-dee, tiddly-da, tiddly-dee, tiddly-doo, suck it yourself." 652 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:31,400 But now it's... You don't know they're moving, do you? It glides. 653 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,000 Well, sometimes they're not moving. MAN LAUGHS 654 00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,480 And you're Mr Virgin, are you? I am. I am indeed. Well, can I ask... 655 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,520 It's not a complaint, it's just a suggestion. 656 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,960 Why can't we have some decent food? 657 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,640 Why can't you have bacon butties? Bacon butties? 658 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:58,280 Why can't we have some roast-beef sandwiches? Stuff like that, stuff that we know and recognise. 659 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:02,120 Instead of some...things... Right... 660 00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:06,600 Things in wraps... that smell quite, er... 661 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:11,000 Well, get a morning train and you'll get your bacon butties. Will you? Oh. 662 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,520 Yeah. So if you want a bacon butty you have to get the morning train? 663 00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,760 It's breakfast really, yeah. Ohhh. Well, now, that's it. 664 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,760 But we do have them! That's it. Because...you know... 665 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:27,800 Two o'clock in the afternoon... I mean...curry and crisps... Not really your thing? 666 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,440 Not very sustaining. No, no. 667 00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,960 And you pay for it later on when you're doing your show. 668 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,320 # Tears... # HE BELCHES # ..for souvenirs... 669 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,440 # Happiness... # Ohhh... 670 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:41,880 How's business? 671 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,160 Because what's a holiday coast for the many 672 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,560 is a hard-working coast for the few who play to packed houses in the theatres 673 00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:01,120 or who work on the golden mile of sideshows and booths, 674 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,480 alleys and oyster bars between the north pier and central pier, 675 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,120 where there's adventure every yard. 676 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,560 And where Blackpool seems to offer everything that Paris can 677 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,640 and a breezy humour all its own. 678 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,400 Everyone's enjoying themselves here at Blackpool down on the beach. 679 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,520 It's so crowded here in Blackpool, ladies and gentlemen, 680 00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:29,200 the Corporation have had to send to Morecambe for more sea-goers! 681 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,920 My aunty Nelly, me big aunty Nelly, she was down on the beach. 682 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,520 Me big aunty Nelly. And the man from Blackpool Corporation said, 683 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,800 "Missus, would you mind getting off the beach, the tide's waiting to come in." 684 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,840 Yesterday she dived into the sea and six trawlers were beached at the Isle of Man. 685 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,840 LAUGHTER 686 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,120 Everyone's here at Blackpool... 687 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,360 Some of the sideshows were marvellous. 688 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,280 There used to be a big sign - "It was her father's fault." 689 00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,600 I never found out what it was, but it was her father's fault. 690 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:04,360 Then the other one, er... "Half woman, half fish." 691 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,680 Mermaid. Er... 692 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,960 There was another one that said, "Come and see a horse 693 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,440 "with a tail where its head should be." 694 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,880 And when you went inside - it was sixpence - 695 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,960 it was the horse the wrong way round in the cart. 696 00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:31,200 I've been coming here now for years. 697 00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:36,000 Every year. Every year since 1954 or 1955. Mm. 698 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:40,480 Every year, at one of the theatres in Blackpool, I've played here 699 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,480 and I've played with some really big stars. 700 00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,200 # Oh, what a glorious thing to be 701 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,680 # A healthy grown-up busy, busy bee 702 00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:52,040 # Making hay while time is ripe 703 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,480 # Building up the honeycomb just like tripe 704 00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,000 # I'd like to be a busy, busy bee 705 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,400 # Being just as busy as a bee can be 706 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,880 # Flying all around the wild hedge rose... # 707 00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:09,680 I cover it like that, you see, and what happens... 708 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,480 LAUGHTER 709 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,880 Too many bottles. Now... 710 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:19,000 # Sally, Sally 711 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,520 # Don't ever wander... # 712 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:28,120 I played the Opera House one year and on the Sunday concert Gracie Fields was on. 713 00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:33,560 She left all the flowers, all the bouquets. "You have them, Doddy." 714 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,360 You know, "I can't get them back to Capri." 715 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,480 So she left me all the flowers, that was nice. 716 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:44,160 It is the, er... It is the privilege of the... 717 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,160 whoever occupies the number-one dressing room, 718 00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,600 whoever is the star and number one, it is your privilege 719 00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,800 to play host to another star who's coming in on the Sunday. 720 00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:59,400 So it is good manners - and they do, they're very, very kind, very kind - 721 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,960 they move their stuff to one side, 722 00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:06,400 usually put clean linen over them, so you don't touch them, 723 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,360 and then they'll leave you a nice note, 724 00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:11,360 perhaps a bottle of champagne, 725 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,840 or a tin of lager, according to how big a star they are, 726 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,000 and...in most...you still... 727 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,000 even today though you have to bring your own soap. 728 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,760 # Sleigh bells ring Are you listenin'? 729 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,440 # Down the lane Snow is glistenin' 730 00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,080 # A beautiful sight We're happy tonight... # 731 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,520 I've got better ones, but not so clean. 732 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,040 The other one I like is about the two little insects... 733 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:43,400 # Ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta Hyde Park Corner... # 734 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:47,280 One of old pros, as we used to call them, one of the old troopers, 735 00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,920 showed me how to make up 736 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,280 and he told me to always put a blob of red in the corner of your eye. 737 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,160 That makes your eyes sparkle, makes your eyes... 738 00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,600 And you give people the idea that here on the stage is a jester. 739 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,720 A jester. Erm...a Merry Andrew. 740 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:06,480 A... "By Jove, missus, ha-ha!" 741 00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:11,000 And that's what they want to see. They want to see life, they want to see energy. 742 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:17,640 When you went to see a live show... A live show is the best show you can possibly go to. 743 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,400 Cos when you go to a live show you don't just watch it, you're in it. 744 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,120 You take part in it, you are part of the show. How are you part of it? What does that mean? 745 00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:30,560 Because you...you interact with the entertainers on the stage. 746 00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:34,320 There are two ways...two ways of telling a joke, 747 00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,880 or two ways of entertaining an audience. 748 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,640 You can either do a show at them... 749 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,280 or with them. 750 00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,800 And with them is the best way. 751 00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,840 I try to do a show with the audience. 752 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:53,040 Not sort of...not a lot of audience participation, I don't mean community singin', 753 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,600 although we do a bit of that as well, 754 00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,320 but...you know, make 'em feel that... 755 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,120 this show is just...for you. 756 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:11,400 And so I've got to try and plan what sort of a show I'm going to do tonight, 757 00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,160 which, erm... 758 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,280 People say, "How do you remember it?" You remember by key words. 759 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:21,400 In these, er, routines there's a key word which tells me, 760 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:25,480 you know, "That's... I'll do the motorcar routine. 761 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:30,600 "I'll do the, er...I'll do the honeymoon couple routine. 762 00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,280 "I'll do the... the illuminations routine." 763 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:39,160 You've got to have good jokes, new jokes. 764 00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:44,040 Not necessarily brand-new jokes, because there's no such thing as an old joke, 765 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,600 only jokes that people have heard before. 766 00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:51,200 The oldest joke in the world... I'll probably be telling it tonight, in different ways. 767 00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:55,560 The oldest joke in the world is the joke where the people in one village 768 00:53:55,560 --> 00:54:00,080 think that the people in the next village are barmy. Mm. 769 00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:08,520 You'll hear it come over the loudspeaker in a moment. He'll say, "Half an hour, please." 770 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,280 That means you've got 35 minutes. Don't ask him why, it's 35. 771 00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,880 Then he'll say, "Quarter of an hour, please," which is 20 minutes. 772 00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:20,240 Then he'll say, "Overture and beginners," 773 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:22,360 which is five minutes. 774 00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:36,040 "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr Ken Dodd!" 775 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,240 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 776 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,160 # ..more than my share of happiness 777 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,640 # To me this world is a wonderful place 778 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,160 # I'm the luckiest human in the human race 779 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:55,400 # I've got no silver and I've got no gold 780 00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,280 # But I've got happiness in my soul 781 00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,920 # Happiness to me is an ocean tide 782 00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,800 # A sunset fading on a mountainside 783 00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,280 # A big old heaven full of stars above 784 00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,240 # When I'm in the arms of the one I love 785 00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:14,680 # Oh, happiness, happiness 786 00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,440 # The greatest gift that I possess 787 00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,880 # I thank the Lord that I've been blessed 788 00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:24,000 # With more than my share of happiness 789 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:30,960 # I've got more than my share of happiness. # 790 00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,200 How was the show tonight? 791 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,920 Well, it was...it was a good show tonight, yeah. 792 00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,520 I thought we were all... I thought we worked well together. 793 00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,640 The audience and me, they were very responsive, 794 00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:01,480 and, er... 795 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,520 it's now...let's see... What time is it? 796 00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,680 It's one o'clock in the morning, 797 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,040 so, er... 798 00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:13,440 I feel...I feel pleasantly shattered, you know. 799 00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:18,920 Tired but...yeah. It was a good show. Erm... 800 00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:24,000 Tried a few new gags out. They went quite well. 801 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,880 Tried about half a dozen and four of them went quite well. 802 00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:32,320 Two of them hit the deck, but that's all right, they won't be in next week. 803 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,800 So...yeah, it was a good show, yeah. 804 00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,360 Happiness for you! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 805 00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:10,480 Happiness! Happiness...for you! 806 00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:21,720 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd - 2007 807 00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:23,600 E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk 808 00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,480 Happiness. 809 00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:28,320 Well, that's the comedian's job, isn't it? 810 00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,280 With one of these. 811 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,480 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE