Sir Lenny Henry
speaker
1,588 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Sir Lenny Henry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it really taught me about prep and about thinking before and the night before.
And then the other thing was working with musicians.
I had a band called Poor White Trash and the Little Bighorns with Adrian Edmonton on guitar and Hugh Laurie on the keyboards and Ben Elton's Mrs. on the bass.
And we had to play, we were practising I Want You Back.
Yeah.
Right?
They practiced that.
They practiced that for an hour.
And they were just practicing it because they were enjoying it.
So the bass line is quite difficult, solo playing that.
And they kept practicing it over and over.
And I don't think I sang in that rehearsal session because they just kept playing, playing, and playing.
And as a comedian, I went, oh, these guys...
These guys really practice it until they get it right.
And comics are kind of like, yeah, I go on and I just do it.
And I thought, no, I'm going to start running lines.
I'm going to start thinking about the lines and I'm going to prepare it.
So like the cooking, like the working with the band, I thought, no, I'm going to go someplace and just practice my lines over and over again.
So when I come on stage, boom, boom, I can just do it without even thinking.
So to be able to play a bass line without even thinking it, it's like hours and hours of practice.
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