Ken Dodd Quotes

Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.

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!

I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside.

I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My parents were wonderful when I told them I wanted to be an entertainer.

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them.

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.

My teeth are all my own. I've just finished paying for them.

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 trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

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.

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.