I still use that now , or at least I did whan I was in the UK , without ever knowing where it came from. lol
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âIâm on pills for me nervesâŚâ
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That was a Ken Dodd catchphrase if I can recall⌠Remember when he was hauled before the courts on Tax evasion, there was a headline that readâŚ
âHow you fiddlingâ :0)
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In my 20s I was dragged to Allinsons (long gone) to see him. I thought this is going to be really naff. He was greatâŚ
We had Ken Dodd once at a company function. My God that was a long night. After an hour people were losing the will to live. After 2 hours the room was half empty and he just kept going. He was only supposed to tell a few jokes and hand out the awardsâŚ
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I always associate him with made up words, âtattyfilariousâ and the like, which sort of works because it actually sounds funny to begin with.
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Yeah, using made up words, chosen well, can be a lot safer to use in this woke era, than say for example, asking the old lollypop man, shepherding the kids across the roadâŚ
âHow you diddlingââŚ!
It would be a fuckin minefield these days, for some of those older generation comedians :0)
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Great British Humour ⌠omfg.
A clip here of Manning , Colin Crompton and a truly spellbinding act. 
Crompton actually did a summer season , circa 1980 , at a hotel in Rhyl that my uncle owned , ( my aunt knew him from her days as a dancer in Manchester) just about the time when âcabaretâ was no longer really a thing. He was playing to an almost empty room which held 500 and was pissed most nights , and quite an unpleasant character apparently. He died a few years later from lung cancer , so whether he had already been diagnosed then or not I have no idea.
Anyway , brace yerselves ;
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I think the main problem is that the audienceâs cultural reference points have shifted. I remember as a kid, I never found Arthur Askey funny. He seemed like a nice old man who sung a song about a bee, but I just didnât have the same reference points which, for him, originated in the First World War and playing the music hall circuit in the 1920s. Iâve seen old clips where he just says âHello, Playmates!â and âBefore your very eyesâ that causes the audience to crack up. You clearly had to be there.
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At his trial for tax evasion, he was exactly the same when he was in the courtroom. When he stood in the witness box he wouldnât shut up⌠had everyone laughing all the time at his remarks⌠got so bad the judge threatened to throw him in a cell for contempt if he didnât start taking the proceedings seriouslyâŚ!
For example:
The opposing barrister asked him why did he blatantly fail to pay his taxes⌠Ken Dodd said he didnât believe he owed the Inland Revenue anything, because he lived by the seaâŚ! 
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I always had Dick Emery as being in that list.
The last 50 years of my life now feel fake
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Memory is a weird thing. I recall the âchase meâ bit vividly, but even now itâs been attributed to Norville I have no memory of him as an act and even when I see him do the bit it feels like he is copying it from the unnamed comedian in my head who I thought it came from.
If pushed to name who I though did it Iâd have probably said Les Dennis, but even now I know it wasnt in my head I have an even clearer picture of him doing it.
He was well established by the time that came on. He was involved with some of the Goons in the 1950s. But he was always more of a comic actor than a stand-up. I used to love his sketch show, but I suspect that it has aged badly by now.
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Ooh you are awful, but I like you
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Bloody hell, I thought a whole lot of people had died.
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It was Norvelle who used it. Les Dennis sometimes did impressions so he might have been imitating him.
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I once played Pictionary and had to draw an emery board - which at the time I had no idea what that was. You can probably see where Iâm going with this. I spent the time frantically trying to draw Dick Emery surfing. We did not win that round 
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In his early years, Les Dennis had a comedy partner - Dustin Gee.
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Of course, there was also Larry (Shut That Door) Grayson
They were all on the circuit the same time/ish
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Indian tabla player, Zakir Hussain, has died aged 73:
He worked with several western musicians including Van Morrison and George Harrison, whoâs Living In The Material World album has just been re-released. You can hear Zakirâs tabla around the 1:45 mark.
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