Sir Lenny Henry

I was going to perform there on a Friday.

And we arrived all jet-lagged and everything on the Monday.

And they said, I'll go on stage and do 10 minutes.

I got up on stage.

It wasn't very good.

And I was with my writer, Kim Fuller, and Andy Harris, who was producing the Sad Bank show, said...

You've got to get it together.

You've got to get it together.

What are you going to do?

What are you going to do?

And Kim and me just said, well, we'll just write.

We'll just write our way out of this because we were prepared, but we weren't prepared for the silence that met us, the tumbleweed that rolled through on stage.

And then we just thought we'd better get on with this.

So we did...

four shows a night in New York, every night, and we wrote every day.

And on the Friday, I felt a bit more confident, and there were rolling cameras, and I walked on, and I had one of the best nights of my life on stage as a comedian.

And I did the blues singer, I did the preacher,

And I did jokes.

Good evening, my name is Lenny Henry.

Yes, there are black people in England.