Les Dennis
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But I think it's a young man's game.
So I love playing a character in a company now very much.
The stand up.
I started, it wasn't even called stand up when I started.
It was called me act.
I started in the working men's clubs in the 70s.
Yeah, how do you start?
Well, I mean, I think when I was young, I used to watch Sunday Night at the London Palladium with Jimmy Tarbuck and think, I want to do that, you know.
I started doing the clubs while I was still at school.
I've never had a proper job.
This is all I've ever done.
It is tough, you know, and when you first start, when I was 16, 17, I was going into clubs where they were expecting a blue middle-aged comic with the bow tie and...
And the kind of frilly shirt.
And it was tough, yeah.
But I got through.
And you're always as good as your last show.
And as long as my last show was good, I was enjoying it.
I did talent shows.
I did New Faces, the kind of ITV talent show.
And I was on that with Victoria Wood and neither of us won.