Dodd stage return vow
SIR Ken Dodd vowed to get back on stage yesterday after six weeks in hospital with a chest infection.
The comic, 90, was greeted by some of his Diddymen, played by children from Liverpool Theatre School, as he left Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital for his home in nearby Knotty Ash.
He said: “Once I’ve recovered myself I’ll get back to doing the job. While I was in here I wrote some new jokes, so it should be all right.”
Sir Ken also recorded a thank-you for staff and as he left in a wheelchair, waving a trademark tickling stick, he added: “The porridge here is remarkable.”