Editing Ken Dodd (section)

==Death and tributes==
[[File:Oak House, Knotty Ash 20180321.jpg|thumb|280px|Oak House, Dodd's lifelong home, with floral tributes]]
Dodd died aged 90, on 11 March 2018, at his home in Knotty Ash, the same home in which he was born and raised, soon after being hospitalised for six weeks with a chest infection.<ref name="BBC-43367267">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43367267|title=Comedy legend Sir Ken Dodd dies, aged 90|work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=12 March 2018 |access-date=12 March 2018}}</ref> He had been touring with his stand-up stage show up until the end of 2017. Numerous stars paid tribute, including fellow Liverpudlian [[Paul McCartney]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43372834|title=Ken Dodd was 'life-enhancing and brilliant' – tributes paid to the comedian|work=BBC News|date=12 March 2018|access-date=12 March 2018}}</ref>
At his funeral on 28 March, which was led by the [[Bishop of Liverpool]], [[Paul Bayes]], thousands of fans joined the cortege which passed from his Knotty Ash home to [[Liverpool Cathedral]]. The service was attended by actors [[Ricky Tomlinson]], [[Stephanie Cole]] and [[Miriam Margolyes]], comedians [[Jimmy Tarbuck]], [[Stan Boardman]], [[Roy Chubby Brown]], and [[Jimmy Cricket]], and television executive [[Michael Grade]]. After the service, Dodd was laid to rest - alongside both his parents - in a private burial service at [[Allerton Cemetery]] in Liverpool. Tickling sticks were placed on various statues around Liverpool in commemoration. At [[Liverpool Town Hall]], [[St George's Hall, Liverpool|St George's Hall]], the [[Cunard Building]] and [[Liverpool Central Library]], flags were lowered to pay respect.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43556933|title=Sir Ken Dodd: Fans turn out for comedian's Liverpool funeral|work=BBC News|date=28 March 2018|access-date=28 March 2018}}</ref>

Theatre critic [[Michael Coveney]] declared in his appreciation for ''[[The Stage]]'': "Ken Dodd was the greatest live performer I ever saw on stage anywhere."<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2018/michael-coveney-ken-dodd-greatest-live-performer-ever-saw-stage| title=Ken Dodd was the greatest live performer I ever saw on stage | publisher=The Stage, Michael Coveney, 13 March 2018}}</ref>

In the December 2018 BBC TV retrospective, ''How Tickled We Were'', the comic's biographer [[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]] ranked Dodd alongside [[Laurence Olivier|Lord Olivier]] as one of "the two theatrical geniuses of the British stage" in the writer's own lifetime. In the same broadcast, fellow Liverpudlian and comedian Jimmy Tarbuck declared Dodd "the greatest stage comic the country has ever seen".<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bwdjxg/ken-dodd-how-tickled-we-were| title=Ken Dodd – How Tickled We Were| publisher=BBC television, 26 December 2018}}</ref>

In October 2020, Dodd's [[headstone]] was [[Vandalism|vandalised]] with [[graffiti]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smoothradio.com/news/entertainment/cilla-black-ken-dodd-graves-vandalised/|title=Cilla Black and Ken Dodd's graves vandalised with offensive graffiti in Liverpool|last=Eames|first=Tom|date=27 October 2020|work=[[Smooth Radio (2014)|Smooth Radio]]|access-date=29 October 2020}}</ref>

In September 2022, Lady Dodd endowed stained-glass windows at St Anne's Church, [[Old Swan]], in memory of her husband.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Haf |first1=Ffion |title=Sir Ken Dodd's newest gift to Liverpool with touching message attached |url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sir-ken-dodds-newest-gift-25150986 |website=Liverpool Echo |date=30 September 2022 |access-date=15 October 2022}}</ref>