I found Ken very funny, silly, clean funny, not having to resort to swearing or smut to get a laugh!
He did an enormous amount for charity, I know Wavertree School for the Blind and Alice Elliott School for the Deaf, both in Liverpool, were two of his favourites for donations.
However, he could, at times, be a thoroughly rude and obnoxious man, and yes I did know him personally. My DM was a teacher at Alice Elliott School, and I met him on many, many occasions.
However, he was the last of the great 'showmen' and as such is a huge loss.
If you've never been down the 'jam butty mines' you've never lived!
On local radio this morning, someone said, with reference to his habit of running over time at his shows, "Ken's funeral will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning"! He'd have liked that comment!
Not directly connected, but when my DM was 11 years old, they lived in Knotty Ash for about 18 months as my DGF was manager of the 'Maypole Grocers' there.