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And I thought you'd like that anyway because he's obviously Scouse, isn't he? Have you ever met him? Yeah, I did meet him.

Did you? I told you the story at his funeral.

Not his funeral, it was Dougie Chapman who used to be the first guy who ever booked me to do pantomime.

It was his funeral and Ken Dodd was there and I was sat next to Ken Dodd through the whole funeral.

And I thought, I can't lose this opportunity.

You never

hijacked a funeral?

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

It was after the funeral.

I thought, I'm going to chat to him.

I'm going to chat to him because I genuinely wanted to thank him because over the years I've met up with him and he's always given me bits of advice.

He'd always give me bits of advice and stuff, you know, like...

Stop.

Stop, yeah.

Do you know the advice that he always gave me? And I still incorporate to this day.

register from that yeah it was all that yeah stuff like that from his past no he he was told me he was talking about the windows being the the eyes to the soul the windows of the eyes to the soul is what he used to say the eyes are the windows to the soul the the eyes of the what did i say the windows yeah

we're right aren't we

you're right yeah right the eyes are windows to the soul so he said he basically said Whenever you've got someone, there's always someone who draws your attention in a gig who looks miserable, looks fed up, or looks like they're not enjoying

it.

And he told me, he says, if that ever happens to you, he says, do one joke just for them.

And what I mean, what he meant by that was look at them in the eyes, stare at them and do the joke just.

And he says, nine out of 10 times they'll crack.

And he's right.

I've done it so many times.

Just do it to that one person.