The Diddy Men are a creation of the British comedian Ken Dodd. Ken Dodd Show Poster Kenneth Arthur Dodd (born November 8, 1927, Liverpool) is a veteran British comedian and singer, famous for his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or tickling stick), and his catchphrases, often playing on the tickled motif, i. ...

When Ken Dodd began playing seaside resorts, he mythologised his home area of Knotty Ash in Liverpool and created a minature race of people who inhabited it. Diddy is northern slang for "little".

The Diddy Men were originally an unseen joke but after a while began to appear on stage with Dodd, delighting children in the audience.

The Diddy Men are most like the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz but have also been compared to Smurfs, the US Cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks and Oompa-Loompas. They tend to wear slightly oversized adult clothes in flamboyant style including tall furry hats. Diddy Men are about 3 feet tall and said to work in the Jam Butty mines of Knotty Ash. Alternate meanings: see Munchkin (disambiguation) The word munchkin was first coined by L. Frank Baum in his 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ... The Wizard of Oz may refer to: Books The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, classic 1900 book by L. Frank Baum Wicked (novel), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, a 1995 novel Son of a Witch, Son of a Witch, a novel 2005 Political interpretations... The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. ... Alvin and the Chipmunks, left to right: Theodore, Simon, and Alvin. ... Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka with the iconic Oompa Loompas of the 1971 film An Oompa Loompa from the 2005 movie adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, portrayed by Deep Roy Oompa Loompas are dwarves in Roald Dahls fictional books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and...

Notable Diddy Men include: Dicky Mint, Mick the Marmalizer, Evan, Hamish McDiddy and Nigel Ponsonby-Smallpiece.

The Diddy Men have a song, once released as a single, titled "The Song of the Diddy Men", sung in a high pitched, chipmunk style voice. It includes the chorus: "We are the Diddy Men, the Diddy Men, the Diddy Men, We are the Diddy Men and we come from Knotty Ash". Species 23 species, see text Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae. ...

On stage the Diddy Men are normally played by children or midgets. On TV Dodd uses a puppet of the Dicky Mint character. These days the Diddy Men are rarely seen outside of pantomime season. i love ?? ...

Many child actors and other notable people from Liverpool have been Diddy Men in their younger days, including at least one leading Labour Councillor.