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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What were you like as a kid?
Because I was kind of shy.
Were you?
But I was bullied.
And the thing is, the comedy got me out of the being bullied thing.
Because suddenly all these kids start going, leave me alone, he's for me.
Leave him alone, he's all right.
And I had this cohort of white kids who surrounded me when I was in school defending me.
Do Tommy Cooper, and they'll back off then.
Thank you very much.
And they'd just part like the Red Sea, and I'd walk through.
So the impressions, and these new friends who loved me because I was funny, they suddenly became my gang, and it was so great.
It's such a relief.
Well, I didn't know what it was going to be like, but I'd been making my mates, it was like this, so you would have three mates, and if you're the funny one, they were all funny, by the way, I wasn't the only funny one.
We would joke things we'd seen on telly.
You know, somebody would recite Monty Python.
Somebody would do a Dave Allen joke.
I'd do Frank Spencer or Tommy Cooper.
Hello, baby.
I'd do that.
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