Sir Lenny Henry
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And the salesman goes, are your mum and dad at home?
And the kid says, what do you think?
And my mum...
My mum's face... My mum's face twitched.
And I was allowed to go in and have my tea.
And then from then on, she was my biggest fan.
So when I said hello to her on the telly, that was it for me.
And I knew that was it for me because I'd been announced as Lenny Henry, but at home I was Len.
I was called Len.
And then when the Expressing Star came to my house to do an interview with mum and take pictures of me, and they asked her, how do you feel about his success?
Yeah, that was the audition.
And then television, that was a year later.
I was 16.
Well, they make a lot of you, but you've still got to get a car.
Oh.
Because, I don't know if you know this, but when you're a teenager, if you haven't got a car, it's very tough at the disco.
Because you say, you, hello, my name, have you got a car?
No.
Next!
It was a bit like that.