Sir Lenny Henry
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then I went, oh, okay.
I said, why don't we get a ring and make it official?
I can meet your mum and dad, it'd be lovely.
And he went, are we going to fight or what?
And I said, let's hold hands and skip around the playground.
And he ran off.
And from that day, the people who'd been going fight, fight, fight suddenly became a cohort of...
Like a ring of steel around me.
And every time he came to bully me after that, they'd say, leave Lenny alone, he's funny and he's got talent.
And you should bog off and leave him alone.
And he did, eventually.
And it was watched by 16 million people.
60 million.
And in the studio, there were no black people in the audience.
It was just a lovely, lovely white audience.
And they were all sitting there and Derek Hobson said, here's Lenny Henry.
Let's give him three minutes to express himself.
Lenny Henry.
And earlier on, the producer during the day had said, look, don't just come on.
I didn't know why he was saying this, by the way.