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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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Rosebud Live at Riverside Studios - Sir Lenny Henry · 8 May 2026
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And Tommy Cooper.
Windsor Davis.
Anyway, for the millennials.
LAUGHTER
My God, mate, Miss Jones.
Oh, we love that one.
Rigsby, the black guy in Rising Down.
So I was doing all these impressions and the kids at school said to my teacher, Lenny Henry should do the school concert because he was great the other week.
And suddenly...
The English teacher who organised the school concert said, do you want to do the school concert this year?
You could be the compere.
This coincided with me auditioning for New Faces.
I was 15.
I went to Birmingham to this place called the New Cresta Club.
Sticky carpet, smelled of fags and wee.
And we had to audition all day.
And I didn't go on till the end of the day.
And I've been watching all these people audition.
And it was awesome.
glorious and i thought these are my people there were double acts and there was comedy show bands and there were jugglers people with dogs i don't know what they thought they were doing there was a black comedian called ben nightingale who was great but he never got they said next after one joke um there was a guy did colombo and one more thing he was a detective on the telly millennials
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