'Bring blankets. Bring breakfast': my night with Ken Dodd
Performing on stage at 87, the comedian is still in it for the long haul. And with at least five hours of relentless japery to sit through, so is his audience I hadn't sat down in Darlington Civic theatre two minutes when someone offered me a midget gem. Alex and his girlfriend Leanne, holder of the gems, were outside the demographic for Ken Dodd's Happiness tour by some decades, at 29 and 31 respectively " but this …