I think Tommy was for the much more mature audience. Although children did get a kick out of seeing everything go wrong, they didn't get most of the wordplay - 'a man walked into a bar... ouch. It was an iron bar' would have gone over the heads of many (and still does) but Doddy covered the whole age range.

I saw a video of one of his live adult shows which included Dicky Mint (or was it Mick the Marmeliser?) and that had content in it that was definately not for children who would have recognised Mick or Dicky straight away.

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