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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Chris Wiegand Stage editor

Happiness! Ken Dodd exhibition to open at the Museum of Liverpool

Ken Dodd holding an enormous tickling stick on the stage of the London Palladium 1990.
Larger than life … Ken Dodd in 1990. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

Tickling sticks, a Dicky Mint puppet and a Yorick skull complete with protruding teeth will go on display in September as the Museum of Liverpool pays tribute to the city’s beloved comedian Sir Ken Dodd.

Dodd, who died aged 90 in 2018, is to be remembered in the exhibition Happiness! which is named after his signature song and will explore “the two sides of the much-loved Doddy” said curator Karen O’Rourke. As well as “the larger than life, quick-witted performer we know best” it will reveal “the deep-thinker and private man off stage, who diligently filled more than 1,000 notebooks with his jokes, observations and philosophy of comedy”.

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