{"id":554604,"date":"2026-04-28T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:46:08","slug":"ken-dodds-wife-seeks-trademark-for-25-of-comedians-catchphrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554604\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Dodd’s wife seeks trademark for 25 of comedian’s catchphrases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Anne was named a Citizen of Honour by Liverpool City Council in January last year for her charitable work and contributions to the city. <\/p>\n

Her late husband also held numerous titles, including a knighthood in 2017<\/a> and a Guinness World Record – after he told a record 1,500 jokes in a near four hour session at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. <\/p>\n

Lady Anne admitted it was hard whittling the breadth of her late husband’s catchphrases to just 25 but added Knotty Ash, both a suburb of Liverpool and mythical home of his ‘Diddymen’, could not make the list despite it reaching some unusually high up places.<\/p>\n

She recalled an anecdote from Prince Charles who once asked a group of women on a tour of Balmoral where they were from. <\/p>\n

“They replied ‘Knotty Ash’, and he said ‘Oh I thought that was a figment of Ken Dodd’s imagination!'”. <\/p>\n

“You can’t really trademark it because it already exists but in a way he brought it to the national knowledge, as it were.”<\/p>\n

Aside from catchphrases, Lady Anne said Dodd had been remembered in other ways – notable the gardens of the Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Merseyside which was funded by the Dodd estate.<\/p>\n

A mosaic of Ken Dodd is also being made at the site, which will be a “more permanent” stamp of his legacy on the performing arts across both the North West and Britain as a whole, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lady Anne was named a Citizen of Honour by Liverpool City Council in January last year for her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}