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Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd dies, aged 90

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Sir Ken Dodd, creator of the Diddy Men and one of the most popular comedians of his time, has died aged 90.

The Liverpool legend had recently been released from hospital after six weeks of treatment for a chest infection.

On Friday, he had married Anne Jones, his partner of 40 years, at their house, the same one he grew up in, in the Liverpool suburb of Knotty Ash.

Lady Dodd described him as “a most life-enhancing, brilliant, creative comedian”.

Speaking outside their home, she said Sir Ken “just wanted to make people happy”.

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Obituary: Ken Dodd

In pictures: Sir Ken Dodd

She added: “I have lost a most wonderful husband. He lived to perfect his art and entertain his live and adoring audiences.

“I’ve been overwhelmed by the love and affection which I’ve already received from dear friends and the public.”

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Sir Paul McCartney tweeted a picture of Sir Ken with The Beatles, saying he was “a champion of his home city and comedy”.

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Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram tweeted his condolences and recalled he had been “the butt of some of his gags” at Sir Ken’s recent 90th birthday celebrations at the Town Hall.

A book of condolence has opened at the Town Hall, with mayor Joe Anderson tweeting: “We are comforted by the joy and happiness he brought the world.”

Image caption A book of condolence has opened at Liverpool Town Hall

The flags at several buildings in Liverpool – including the Town Hall, St George’s Hall, Cunard Building and Central Library – are also flying at half mast as a mark of respect.

Image caption Floral tributes and tickling sticks have been left outside Sir Ken Dodd’s house in Knotty Ash

Sir Ken was famous for his very long stand-up shows – with which he was touring until last year – along with his Diddy Men and the tickling stick.

“To my mind, he was one of the last music hall greats,” his publicist Robert Holmes said.

Sir Ken Dodd on the ‘best day of his life’

Tattyfilarious: 17 of Ken Dodd’s best gags

“He passed away in the home that he was born in over 90 years ago. He’s never lived anywhere else. It’s absolutely amazing.”

Fellow Liverpudlian and actress Claire Sweeney shared some photos of the star’s 90th birthday party on Twitter, saying he was “a legend and an inspiration”.

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RIP Sir Ken Dodd. A legend and an inspiration. I have a lot to thank You for. I Was thrilled you had the best birthday party in Liverpool before you left us. Your city, friends,Family and Show business will miss you terribly. pic.twitter.com/iDeEC4yukJ

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Paying tribute to Sir Ken, comedian Russ Abbot said he was “an icon, a one-off and a true professor of comedy”.

“One of the greatest. How tickled I am to have known him,” he added.

Liverpudlian comedian John Bishop wrote on Instagram: “True comedy legend. RIP Sir Ken Dodd.”

Actor David Morrissey, who is also from Knotty Ash, tweeted: “Ken Dodd was such an important part of my life growing up in Knotty Ash. He was a great comic and a great man. Thanks for all the laughs.”

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Image caption Sir Ken’s colourful tickling sticks were always a part of his show

Sir Ken had been a comedian since 1954 and was born the son of a coal merchant in 1927.

In the 1960s, he made it into the Guinness Book of Records for telling 1,500 jokes in three and a half hours.

After making his name in the music halls, his career in television and radio took off, as he brought national appeal to his regional, perhaps parochial humour.

He was a chart-topping singer too: his signature tune Happiness was released in 1964 and his single Tears was the third highest-selling song of the 1960s in Britain, beaten only by two Beatles singles.

Sir Ken met Anne when she appeared in the Ken Dodd Christmas Show at the Manchester Opera House in 1961.

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Image caption Sir Ken, pictured with his wife Anne Jones, received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace in 2017

Reverend Julia Jesson said when she moved to Sir Ken’s local church – St John’s in Knotty Ash – her former parishioners were very amused when they found who one of her flock would be.

“Everyone knew about Knotty Ash thanks to Ken,” she added.

“I met him several times and I was struck by what a Godly and humble man he was.”

Referring to the length of Sir Ken’s comedy shows, comedian Gary Delaney paid tribute on Twitter.

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RIP Sir Ken Dodd. One of the all time greats. The funeral will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and most of Saturday.

— Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney) March 12, 2018

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Fans also paid their own tributes, one wrote on Twitter: “After my father died in 1990 we took my mother to see #KenDodd at the Palladium. He was the perfect pick-me-up: daft, irrepressible, funny and silly in equal measure. We were all reduced to helpless, crying-with-laughter wrecks. Bravo! #legend.”

Sir Ken made his first professional appearance in 1954 at the Theatre Royal, Stockport, but it would be another decade before he made his West End debut, topping the bill at the London Palladium.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, he was a regular face on TV and worked to a punishing schedule, which he kept throughout his career, seldom taking a holiday.

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Image caption He was famous for his wild hair, buck teeth, Diddymen and infamous “tickling stick”

But in 1989 Sir Ken faced the possibility of a fall from grace when he was charged with eight counts of tax fraud spanning 15 years and involving more than £800,000.

He was later acquitted after a 23-day trial, but the court heard a range of stories about his eccentricity, including hiding more than £300,000 in wardrobes, cupboards and under stairs.

Taking up his career again on his acquittal, Sir Ken enjoyed another season at the London Palladium in 1990 and won a British Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as being voted Top Variety Performer in 1993.

In 2011, he unveiled a “Comedy Carpet” featuring the catchphrases, jokes and names of more than 1,000 comedians at the foot of Blackpool Tower.

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Very sad to hear that Sir Ken Dodd has passed away. Over the decades he entertained thousands in Blackpool and was the perfect choice to open the Comedy Carpet for us in 2011 #thankyousirken pic.twitter.com/SPPbsVbnEx

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Will any college or university football staff score 100 details again?

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Will any college or university football staff score 100 details again?

Missouri’s rout of Delaware State past time turned heads, and the Tigers potentially could have strike the century mark had the groups not agreed to enjoy ten-minute quarters in the 2nd 50 percent just after Mizzou opened up a fifty eight- lead. Scott Kane/Icon Sportswire

Former Houston quarterback Ken Bailey remembers effectively the past time he played in the Astrodome. Bailey was on the sideline soaking in the spoils of another significant victory. The match was down to its last minutes when he observed the chants.

“We want 100! We want 100!”

Larry Gatlin, who would afterwards staff up with his brothers and go on to fame as a place recording artist, had just recorded his initially and only career reception, a 26-lawn landing move to give the Cougars a 93-6 lead (Certainly, which is ninety-a few details) in excess of the browsing Tulsa Golden Hurricane. The canines had extensive back been named off, but Gatlin’s loved ones was in city from Lubbock and he managed to discuss his teammates into throwing a person much more move to give him a style of glory. Now in just placing length of triple digits, the Houston devoted smelled blood. The Cougars on the sideline smelled it also.

Mentor Monthly bill Yeoman heard the calls from the crowd and needed absolutely nothing to do with them. Recommendations made their way down the sideline that the third-string offense was to kneel on the ball if it had to acquire the industry again. The defense, which involved senior linebacker Wade Phillips (Certainly, which is NFL coaching veteran Wade Phillips), caught wind of the strategy and decided they needed to make an endeavor to appease the crowd.

Tulsa, badly overmatched to commence with and even more exhausted by a flu bug that had knocked a very good chunk of the depth chart off its toes in the course of the week, swiftly churned by way of its initially a few downs and despatched its punt staff on to the industry again. Most of the Tulsa roster, which involved a freshman linebacker named Phil McGraw (Certainly, which is the a person who has considering that get rid of the “McGraw” for a Dr. prefix and a daytime tv display) had specified up at minimum a quarter back.

Phillips will not bear in mind who made the conclusion to put the initially-staff defense back again on the industry with about two minutes to enjoy. But he is familiar with he was lined up to block when Tulsa punted, and cornerback Mike Simpson promptly returned it for a landing — Houston’s 14th of the match. An more stage afterwards and they had attained 100.

“We had scored a great deal of details right before, but all the unexpected it just received out of hand,” Phillips mentioned. “…To be straightforward, I am astonished somebody else hasn’t completed it however.”

It has been 49 years considering that Houston strike the century mark in the Astrodome, and no Division I football staff has matched the mark considering that. Regardless of the explosion in offensive performance in the twenty first century, no staff in the previous ten years has come in just two touchdowns of matching the 1968 Cougars’ most important day. Which raises the concern: Will everyone do it again?

“That would be actually neat,” suggests Drew Lock, who threw for five touchdowns in Missouri’s seventy nine- rout of Delaware State past September — the optimum stage overall of the 2016 time. The Tigers opened up a fifty eight- lead right before equally groups agreed to enjoy ten-minute quarters in the 2nd 50 percent. Lock suggests it could be tricky in SEC place, but he thinks achieving 100 is possible in the appropriate conditions.

Houston attained 70-additionally details in two other games earlier that calendar year many thanks mostly to its revolutionary veer offense, but the Cougars needed a around-ideal storm to make the sizable leap to 100. Some of the features that served them get there are nevertheless quick more than enough to think about in a match right now. Other people could be tougher to come by.

Speed thrills

School football is the moment again in an period when offenses are evolving at a speedier price than defenses. There are about a dozen games per calendar year (11 in 2016 and thirteen in 2015) in which the winner scored 70-additionally details. Evaluate that to a 10 years earlier in 2006 when no staff attained the 70-stage mark and only 15 games topped sixty-additionally details.

Modern offenses are engineered to score swiftly. Many thanks to ESPN’s Stats & Information and facts, we know the average length of all scoring drives (touchdowns and industry plans) for FBS groups in the course of the 2016 time was two:51. It is not a fluke, both, as offenses are slowly speeding up. In 2006, the average time per scoring generate was three:05. In 2011, it was two:fifty six.

The quickest offenses in the nation have all hovered all over or just previously mentioned the two-minute mark in the course of the previous 10 years. There were 28 groups that averaged two:30 or less per scoring generate in 2016.

So it’s not uncommon for a staff to generate down the industry and score in less than two minutes. If an offense were to line up 15 of individuals drives in a row, it could break the 100-stage mark while splitting time of possession evenly with its opponent.

In principle, it’s not tough to think about. The greatest offenses have no trouble placing jointly dozens of drives each individual calendar year that acquire less than two minutes. From a chance standpoint, it’s only a matter of time right before a person group manages to string 15 of them jointly in a person match.

The boxscore from Nov. 23, 1968 demonstrates every little thing went Houston’s way in the 100-6 gain in excess of Tulsa. Forty-9 years afterwards, no a person has hung a hundred on the scoreboard considering that even with much more superior-driven offenses scoring at a speedier price than ever. Courtesy of Houston sports activities facts division

Mismatches could be fading absent

The School Soccer Playoff has discouraged mismatches by emphasizing toughness of timetable when grading groups. Some conferences like the Big 10 had long gone so far as to quit enjoying FCS schools entirely, although it has softened its stance a short while ago.

Even though there could be less of them, the mismatches that create outlandish scores nevertheless exist. The closest this century has come to observing a staff strike the century mark came in 2012 when Oklahoma State (No. three offense in the FBS that calendar year) posted eighty four details on Savannah State (one-ten in the MEAC) to commence the time. The Cowboys were typically scoring at will that day besides for a stretch in the 2nd quarter when they fell out of stride with a measly 35- lead. In a few consecutive drives, Oklahoma State threw an interception, fumbled and skipped a industry purpose endeavor. Had they kicked the industry purpose and scored on the initially two drives, the Cowboys could have finished the match with one zero one details.

North Carolina came near a calendar year afterwards, publishing 80 details on Previous Dominion right before the coaches agreed to shorten the fourth quarter by five minutes. Tar Heels mentor Larry Fedora had his offense acquire a knee on a fourth-and-purpose enjoy with two minutes remaining. He mentioned it was as not comfortable as he has ever felt coaching a football match.

“If every little thing occurred appropriate, we could see it,” Fedora mentioned. “It could happen, but I you should not want it to happen. I can only think about what that feels like on the other side, and I wouldn’t want that sensation.”

Breaking the code

The most important point standing in the way of a staff scoring 100 details could be the small listing of coaches who are interested in undertaking so. No a person, it looks, would like to be the dude to cling a Benjamin on another member of the coaching fraternity.

“I you should not believe any mentor is going to acquire it there,” Texas Tech’s Kliff Kingsbury mentioned. “I believe they’d locate a way to not get in the conclusion zone at that stage. I would hope so.”

Other coaches, like Fedora, have a very little less religion in some of their colleagues to display mercy. (“You can determine them out yourselves,” he mentioned.) They aren’t as specific that some in the occupation would attract the line at design and style details aimed at impressing a bowl committee for the playoff selectors compared to embarrassing an opponent. Owing to the range of former coaches on the playoff committee, it could truly be a detriment to a team’s playoff situation to beat up a weaker opponent to these types of an serious.

Some coaches feel that if a staff is going to get to 100, it will need to have to be prodded on by an opponent that is also scoring at will. Kingsbury’s staff, for case in point, has allowed sixty-additionally details on six occasions in the previous two years. His offense is powerful more than enough that opponents need to have a serous cushion right before they sense cozy getting a foot off the gasoline. The closest a match has come to that type of scoring cost-free-for-all was Pittsburgh’s 76-61 gain in excess of Syracuse past drop.

“Did you pay out any awareness to the Pitt-Syracuse match past calendar year?” West Virginia mentor Dana Holgorsen mentioned when asked if he thinks triple digits are coming. “We’re approaching it. Hopefully, I am not a aspect of a match like that.”

The 1968 Tulsa staff was in no way threatening to commit any functions of repeat offense in late November at the Astrodome. Houston, nevertheless, scored 49 of its 100 details in the fourth quarter even with emptying its bench.

The imagined of hitting that milestone, Phillips and Bailey equally mentioned, didn’t occur to the Cougars’ gamers right before Gatlin’s personal quest to get to the conclusion zone pulled them to in just a person score. At that stage, they figured they could as effectively give the folks what they needed. They manage that their thirst for retribution (Tulsa had upset Houston on the road the past calendar year) didn’t cause them to ignore the game’s code of sportsmanship ethics. It was merely also tough not to score on the completely depleted Golden Hurricane staff thanks to the game’s unique established of conditions.

“I believe it can be completed again,” Bailey mentioned. “Particularly with the way folks toss the ball all over now, the prospects are there and points in everyday living are made to be recurring.”

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Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd dies, aged 90

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Sir Ken Dodd, creator of the Diddy Men and one of the most popular comedians of his time, has died aged 90.

The Liverpool legend had recently been released from hospital after six weeks of treatment for a chest infection.

On Friday, he had married Anne Jones, his partner of 40 years, at their house, the same one he grew up in, in the Liverpool suburb of Knotty Ash.

Lady Dodd described him as “a most life-enhancing, brilliant, creative comedian”.

Speaking outside their home, she said Sir Ken “just wanted to make people happy”.

Tickling sticks and tears for Doddy

Obituary: Ken Dodd

In pictures: Sir Ken Dodd

She added: “I have lost a most wonderful husband. He lived to perfect his art and entertain his live and adoring audiences.

“I’ve been overwhelmed by the love and affection which I’ve already received from dear friends and the public.”

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Media captionLady Dodd pays tribute to her late husband, comedian Sir Ken Dodd

Sir Paul McCartney tweeted a picture of Sir Ken with The Beatles, saying he was “a champion of his home city and comedy”.

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Liverpool Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram tweeted his condolences and recalled he had been “the butt of some of his gags” at Sir Ken’s recent 90th birthday celebrations at the Town Hall.

A book of condolence has opened at the Town Hall, with mayor Joe Anderson tweeting: “We are comforted by the joy and happiness he brought the world.”

Image caption A book of condolence has opened at Liverpool Town Hall

The flags at several buildings in Liverpool – including the Town Hall, St George’s Hall, Cunard Building and Central Library – are also flying at half mast as a mark of respect.

Image caption Floral tributes and tickling sticks have been left outside Sir Ken Dodd’s house in Knotty Ash

Sir Ken was famous for his very long stand-up shows – with which he was touring until last year – along with his Diddy Men and the tickling stick.

“To my mind, he was one of the last music hall greats,” his publicist Robert Holmes said.

Sir Ken Dodd on the ‘best day of his life’

Tattyfilarious: 17 of Ken Dodd’s best gags

“He passed away in the home that he was born in over 90 years ago. He’s never lived anywhere else. It’s absolutely amazing.”

Fellow Liverpudlian and actress Claire Sweeney shared some photos of the star’s 90th birthday party on Twitter, saying he was “a legend and an inspiration”.

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RIP Sir Ken Dodd. A legend and an inspiration. I have a lot to thank You for. I Was thrilled you had the best birthday party in Liverpool before you left us. Your city, friends,Family and Show business will miss you terribly. pic.twitter.com/iDeEC4yukJ

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Paying tribute to Sir Ken, comedian Russ Abbot said he was “an icon, a one-off and a true professor of comedy”.

“One of the greatest. How tickled I am to have known him,” he added.

Liverpudlian comedian John Bishop wrote on Instagram: “True comedy legend. RIP Sir Ken Dodd.”

Actor David Morrissey, who is also from Knotty Ash, tweeted: “Ken Dodd was such an important part of my life growing up in Knotty Ash. He was a great comic and a great man. Thanks for all the laughs.”

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Image caption Sir Ken’s colourful tickling sticks were always a part of his show

Sir Ken had been a comedian since 1954 and was born the son of a coal merchant in 1927.

In the 1960s, he made it into the Guinness Book of Records for telling 1,500 jokes in three and a half hours.

After making his name in the music halls, his career in television and radio took off, as he brought national appeal to his regional, perhaps parochial humour.

He was a chart-topping singer too: his signature tune Happiness was released in 1964 and his single Tears was the third highest-selling song of the 1960s in Britain, beaten only by two Beatles singles.

Sir Ken met Anne when she appeared in the Ken Dodd Christmas Show at the Manchester Opera House in 1961.

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Image caption Sir Ken, pictured with his wife Anne Jones, received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace in 2017

Reverend Julia Jesson said when she moved to Sir Ken’s local church – St John’s in Knotty Ash – her former parishioners were very amused when they found who one of her flock would be.

“Everyone knew about Knotty Ash thanks to Ken,” she added.

“I met him several times and I was struck by what a Godly and humble man he was.”

Referring to the length of Sir Ken’s comedy shows, comedian Gary Delaney paid tribute on Twitter.

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RIP Sir Ken Dodd. One of the all time greats. The funeral will be held on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and most of Saturday.

— Gary Delaney (@GaryDelaney) March 12, 2018

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Fans also paid their own tributes, one wrote on Twitter: “After my father died in 1990 we took my mother to see #KenDodd at the Palladium. He was the perfect pick-me-up: daft, irrepressible, funny and silly in equal measure. We were all reduced to helpless, crying-with-laughter wrecks. Bravo! #legend.”

Sir Ken made his first professional appearance in 1954 at the Theatre Royal, Stockport, but it would be another decade before he made his West End debut, topping the bill at the London Palladium.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, he was a regular face on TV and worked to a punishing schedule, which he kept throughout his career, seldom taking a holiday.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption He was famous for his wild hair, buck teeth, Diddymen and infamous “tickling stick”

But in 1989 Sir Ken faced the possibility of a fall from grace when he was charged with eight counts of tax fraud spanning 15 years and involving more than £800,000.

He was later acquitted after a 23-day trial, but the court heard a range of stories about his eccentricity, including hiding more than £300,000 in wardrobes, cupboards and under stairs.

Taking up his career again on his acquittal, Sir Ken enjoyed another season at the London Palladium in 1990 and won a British Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as being voted Top Variety Performer in 1993.

In 2011, he unveiled a “Comedy Carpet” featuring the catchphrases, jokes and names of more than 1,000 comedians at the foot of Blackpool Tower.

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Very sad to hear that Sir Ken Dodd has passed away. Over the decades he entertained thousands in Blackpool and was the perfect choice to open the Comedy Carpet for us in 2011 #thankyousirken pic.twitter.com/SPPbsVbnEx

— Blackpool Council (@BpoolCouncil) March 12, 2018

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