Ken Dodd Quote

Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

in Guardian 30 April 1991; quoted in many, usually much contracted, forms since the mid-1960s