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The Real Ken Dodd film lobbies for creation of national comedy museum
Ken Dodd is to be the subject of a major new documentary celebrating his life and legacy, with hopes that the film will help realise his dream for a national comedy museum. The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved will premiere at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds on 9th June, when the performing space in the Victorian theatre is renamed The Sir Ken Dodd Auditorium in honour of his many appearances at the venue.
British Comedy Guide, 30th January 2024Ken Dodd comedy centre planned for Liverpool
The Sir Ken Dodd Happiness Centre - a £15 million comedy venue honouring Ken Dodd - could be coming to Liverpool in 2026, if plans submitted by architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris are approved.
British Comedy Guide, 7th December 2023Ken Dodd's widow saves 'invaluable' notebooks that he wanted to go up in flames
Before he died, comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd left his wife instructions to burn hundreds of private notebooks that he filled with jokes and thoughts about his life and six-decade career. However, she has revealed that after he passed away in 2018, she decided they were too important to destroy. Lady Anne Dodd saved the books and is now putting a number of them on public display for the first time.
Ian Youngs, BBC, 7th September 2023Sir Ken Dodd's gift to Liverpool's next generation of performers
Sir Ken Dodd's comedic legacy is set to live on in Liverpool with a promise to uncover the next generation of comedians and actors from the city. The Ken Dodd Charitable Foundation will fund a new three-year scholarship at Liverpool Theatre School.
Jamie Greer, Liverpool Echo, 1st June 2023Tattyfilarious show celebrates Ken Dodd's genius announced
The widow of legendary funnyman Ken Dodd has licensed all theatrical rights to his material -- the ticklish gags, comedy routines, Diddymen scripts and songs that had audiences rolling in the aisles over his six-decade career -- for an undisclosed sum to a top West End producer to create a theatre show about his life. I can reveal that Michael Harrison, who presents the pantomimes at the London Palladium and hit musical The Drifters Girl, among others, licensed the treasure trove of rib-ticklers from Lady Anne Dodd, who married the comedian two days before he died, aged 90, in 2018.
Baz Bamigboye, Daily Mail, 11th February 2022Ken Dodd biography The Squire Of Knotty Ash to be published
Ken Dodd's wife is helping to write The Squire Of Knotty Ash... And His Lady, an "intimate biography" of the comedian.
British Comedy Guide, 7th December 2020Ken Dodd foundation pledge £700k to Shakespeare project
Sir Ken Dodd's widow has pledged £700,000 through the comic's foundation to build a mini-amphitheatre.
BBC, 19th August 2020