Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The t… - Ken Dodd
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The t…
- Ken Dodd
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them. - Ken Dodd
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.
I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it. - Ken Dodd
I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.
My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.' - Ken Dodd
My act is very educational. I heard a man leaving the other night saying, 'Well that taught me a lesson.'
Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day. - Ken Dodd
Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. - Ken Dodd
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.
Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble! - Ken Dodd
Did you know that a laugh is something that comes out of a hole in your face? Anywhere else and you're in dead trouble!
My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them. - Ken Dodd
My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. - Ken Dodd
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
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