By Jane Clinton Express.co.uk

BLACKPOOL has long been home to some of the best of British stand-up and now it really will be paved with comedy gold.

Famous quotes, sketches and catchphrases from the likes of Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Les Dawson and Dad’s Army will be inlaid in granite for Blackpool’s equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame: the Comedy Carpet.

It is the brainchild of Reg Haslem, director of development at Blackpool regeneration company ReBlackpool.

“The Comedy Carpet is going to be our Angel of the North but horizontal, it’s that sort of impact,” said a spokesman for ReBlackpool.

“The quality of what’s going in and the detail that is achieved will be something talked about far and wide and will be a reason to come to Blackpool to talk about and see how it ties in with this ­wonderful setting.”

The multi-million pound project is expected to be launched next year. Biographer Graham McCann is collating the cream of British comedy lines.

“It will be a kind of physical overview of British comedy,” said McCann, who has written biographies of Morecambe & Wise, Frankie Howerd and Terry ­Thomas. “The idea was to choose some core comedians most associated with Blackpool and the area like Ken Dodd, Morecambe & Wise and Les Dawson.

“This has since broadened out to encompass the whole of the UK.

“There will be lines from British stand-up comedians, British sitcoms and catchphrases. The carpet will resemble a kind of comedy mosaic. They have really done it in a very imaginative way. It is very striking and unique.”

As well as well-known routines and ­dialogue of Morecambe & Wise such as, “I am playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order,” there will be hundreds of other lines. These include Les Dawson mother-in-law jokes, catchphrases from Only Fools And Horses, Absolutely Fabulous and Little Britain.