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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And I started to apply that to my stand-up.
And it was a game changer.
I just, and I don't know if this has ever happened to you.
But I hit a wall.
My mum passed away, and then recovering from that took a long time.
And I got to the 2000s, and I was doing shows and everything, but I wasn't quite enjoying it like I used to.
I felt like I was just doing it.
And I was doing TV shows and stuff.
I did Mrs. Jones and I did two... I won a Golden Rose Montreux for doing Lenny Henry in pieces.
I did a few years of that.
And then I just sort of stopped doing it.
I probably would have carried on if they'd asked me.
The BBC didn't want any more shows.
And I thought... And so I was doing corporate gigs.
Hey, it's the Plumbers Weekly Convention Show.
And I wasn't enjoying it.
And then I just got to a point where I thought, there's got to be...
You know that thing where your ladder is up against a building, metaphorical ladder, and you get to the top of that building and then you look across and you realise, oh, you want to be on that building over there.
And I realised I'd done all this work as a comedian and a comedy actor, and I thought...
But I want to see if people will take me seriously as a proper actor.
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