Animal magic vanishes from Doddy's sell-out show; COMEDIAN RETURNS MINUS MAGICIAN WHO USED BIRDS AND DOGS ON STAGE.Byline: KRYSIA DIVER COMEDIAN Ken Dodd Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born 8 November 1927, in Knotty Ash, Liverpool), better known as Ken Dodd, is a veteran English comedian and singer, famous for selling over 100 million records, his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or "tickling stick"), and his catchphrases, will return to Leamington just weeks after his sell-out show angered animal rights campaigners. The famous funnyman fun·ny·man n. A humorous person, especially a professional comedian. failed to tickle the funnybone of Janet Cummings last month with his show at the town's Royal Spa Centre The Royal Spa Centre is a theatre in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom. The centre was officially opened on 15th June 1972 by Anthony Eden, one time MP for Leamington and Warwick and Prime Minister of the UK. . The Ken Dodd's Happiness Show, which returns next week, featured magician Christian, who used live animals. It shocked animal rights campaigner Miss Cummings, from Tower Road, Rugby, who is also a member of Compassion in World Farming Compassion In World Farming is a European based animal welfare charitable organisation, which has branches in the United Kingdom, China and Ireland. It was founded in 1967 by a Hampshire dairy farmer called Peter Roberts (7 June 1924 – 15 November 2006) in response to the . Miss Cummings wrote a letter of complaint to the Spa Centre management and the famous Diddyman. At the time, entertainments manager Peter Nicholson Peter Nicholson (born 1946) is an Australian political cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has been published in The Age, The Australian, and The Australian Financial Review newspapers. said the comedian managed himself and any decision to change the content of the shows, which are again sell-outs, would be his to make. But yesterday the centre told the Evening Telegraph Evening Telegraph may refer to:
Miss Cummings told the Telegraph: "I'm usually demonstrating at circuses or shows which use animals, so I wasn't ready for this. The whole thing wasn't acceptable. There were seven birds in the show, which included a loud band. He also had dogs with him on stage which were part of his magic act - I couldn't believe it. "The animals must have to be carried from show to show on this tour, and it shouldn't be allowed in this day and age." CAPTION(S): COMPLAINTS: Comedian Ken Dodd |
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