LMI Lecture: John Martin - Writing jokes with Ken Dodd

John Martin was born in Bootle, Liverpool in 1962. He is a professional comedian and became the UK's first Government sponsored comedian when, at the age of 20, he received £40 a week under the enterprise allowance scheme. Sir Ken Dodd on ITV's 'Parkinson' described John as "a marvelous comedian" and named him as his "personal favourite comedian today". John, who had written jokes for Sir Ken for 30 years, and performed at his 90th birthday party, revealed the funny man had been friends with his father, a magician / ventriloquist who once worked with the Beatles and that he inevitably grew up loving tales of show business and collecting jokes. He described writing for Sir Ken Dodd "it was like mixing the paint for Van Gogh". Over the years John has also written comedy for the likes of Jimmy Tarbuck and the late Bob Monkhouse.

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