[Cricket] Royal Variety Performance

[Dick Swiveller]

What did Lenny Henry do to get a knighthood as I don't find him funny at all. Thank fully I haven't seen him yet and in fact didn't know that he was on the cast list for tonight.

Created Comic Relief and campaigned for racial equality. Next question.

 

[Perfidious Albion]

If I'd known that Stomp were on, I'd have seen it. Does it prove my tastes are getting mainstream in my old age?

I stopped watching this show years ago though , it has been useless.... an insult to her Majesty.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

What did Lenny Henry do to get a knighthood as I don't find him funny at all. Thank fully I haven't seen him yet and in fact didn't know that he was on the cast list for tonight.

I think he got it for being more charitable than you.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I thought the "groan ups" sketch was good but "Flo and Joan" were dire ...

 

[Dick Swiveller]

I think he got it for being more charitable than you.

If that is the bar then arise, Sir Scrooge and Sir Piers Morgan.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

What did Lenny Henry do to get a knighthood as I don't find him funny at all. Thank fully I haven't seen him yet and in fact didn't know that he was on the cast list for tonight.

As an ageing Sussex yokel, maybe you'd be surprised to learn that before he became famous, he did a stint at the Butlins Ocean Hotel at Saltdean back in the mid-1970's.
I worked there Xmas 1975, but he'd already left by then ....

 

[Publius Ovidius]

I thought yesterday it was very good...a lot better than some of the dross in the past.

My mrs went to see Mary poppins on Saturday and absolutely loved it...brilliant show and that showed just how slick these shows are. Also thought the Newfoundland bit was brilliant!

Couldn’t watch the contortionist bloke..that was just horrible...clever but horrible.

It has so improved

 

[Tom Bombadil]

What did Lenny Henry do to get a knighthood as I don't find him funny at all. Thank fully I haven't seen him yet and in fact didn't know that he was on the cast list for tonight.

I imagine for having an entertainment career since the 1970's and for his work with charity and promoting BAME poeple in the entertainment industry.

 

[Easy 10]

I imagine for having an entertainment career since the 1970's and for his work with charity and promoting BAME poeple in the entertainment industry.

As well as keeping the public informed on the quality and availability of budget hotels.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

As well as keeping the public informed on the quality and availability of budget hotels.

That's worth a knighthood by itself

 

[Is it PotG?]

When you are as side-splittingly funny as this, a knighthood is inevitable.

McIntyre next.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Switched it on by accident. Caught some hack karaoke bloke with weird tartan trews and weirder american singing accent who looked like Sean Connery's dad. Promptly switched it off again.

 

[MattBackHome]

Created Comic Relief and campaigned for racial equality. Next question.

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[Dick Swiveller]

[MENTION=451]BensGrandad[/MENTION] did this answer your question to your satisfaction?

Technically, it was for services to drama and charity according to Wiki. Whilst his little bits of stand up he does these days are a bit naff, I remember enjoying his 80s TV series as a kid. But listening to an interview with him a few weeks ago, he has had a very interesting life. He toured with the Black And White Minstrels for a while.

Regardless on your views on his humour, I find it very had to believe that anyone would query a knighthood for someone who has worked tirelessly for both charity and equality. Well anyone except the usual suspects, of course.

 

[rippleman]

Technically, it was for services to drama and charity according to Wiki. Whilst his little bits of stand up he does these days are a bit naff, I remember enjoying his 80s TV series as a kid. But listening to an interview with him a few weeks ago, he has had a very interesting life. He toured with the Black And White Minstrels for a while.

Regardless on your views on his humour, I find it very had to believe that anyone would query a knighthood for someone who has worked tirelessly for both charity and equality. Well anyone except the usual suspects, of course.

Blimey. I actually had to go and check that for myself; I thought it was a wind-up.

Yup - the Black & White Minstrels Show - that bastion of BAME rights and equality