'˜I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.'... The classic one-liners and greatest jokes of Sir Ken Dodd
![Sir Ken Dodd, who has died aged 90, with his award for Show Business Personality of the Year, presented to him at the Variety Club's luncheon in 1966.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/legacy_ash_97874117.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![Sir Ken Dodd, who has died aged 90, with his award for Show Business Personality of the Year, presented to him at the Variety Club's luncheon in 1966.](/img/placeholder.png)
Sir Ken Dodd, master of tickling sticks, Diddy Men and tattifilarious comedy, reduced fans to helplessness with his bucktoothed grin, a shake of the through-a-hedge-backwards hair and a cry of "How tickled I am".
Dodd, who died at the age of 90 on Sunday, continued to perform right through to his later years, bringing the energy and stamina of a man half his age to his manic routines in theatres up and down the land. There was no let-up in his astonishing ability to reel off joke after joke, with the rapidity of a machine gun for literally hours on end. Here are some of his very best...