I had to endure that ghastly professional Yorkshireman, Parky, for over half an hour tonight (and Jonathan "Mr Big Ego" Miller didn't help) in order to catch about ten minutes of Doddy, surely the greatest living comedian. Had Tommy Cooper still been with us I might have been umming and ahh-ing about that, but in my view, as things stand, Ken Dodd has no peers. Forget the grim, unfunny and negative rubbish that emanated from the fat ugly one whose passing we've all recently not really mourned. Here's a chap of the ten-a-minute guffaws, the king of the one-liner and, above all, a warm-hearted human being who could get a giggle out of the most curmudgeonly miseryguts you could think of. Hats off to Doddy. Is he ever going to be Sir Ken, or do the Inland Revenue have a say in that? ;-)