Les Dennis

Who can we get? Oh, is Davro not available? Right, let's get Craig Charles.

How much is Les Dennis these days?

Bobby Davro's too busy falling on his face in some stocks on live TV.

Yeah.

legend

and also working with everybody i i mean from kind of as i've said stewart lee right lee mack and uh punt and dennis and then the debt collector with billy connolly that was that was still before the end of the decade wasn't it that was 1999 i think was it yeah So it's an extraordinary CV.

Were you ambitious? Did you sort of think at the time I want to do this or because you ended up on telly very quickly? No,

I'm too.

Was she not

married to Les Dennis?

Les Dennis came to see me and Stu quite a lot.

In Edinburgh, she would go to loads of stuff.

But then she said something about, for all the snowflakes and all the wokery...

But did your love for surrealism, did that ever, because as I said, that's quite sophisticated for a young child.

Did that ever sort of like put a wall between you and your sort of peers, people who are watching very much, you know, things aimed at children, bit of slapstick or, you know, I don't know, flipping, you know, Les Dennis or Russ Abbott or whatever.

Did that ever sort of create a barrier?

That's so funny you're asking me that because I was thinking about, like, those sorts of things.

No.

Is that Les Dennis in it? No.

Les Dennis is still alive.

Paul Daniel is very much

dead.

and where we take Harrison regularly you know Harvest Festival Easter you know Christmas it's wholesome it's run by Robin Pye who is an unbelievable see I'm Catholic so I know this is C of E but it doesn't matter but I just want to give it he's the head of the church right and he just runs he's so charismatic he's worth his box office just listening to him even if you're not religious, just go to one of his services, but he's raising money for the church.

Les and Claire Dennis are parishioners, and we're doing an evening with Les Dennis himself.

Are you emceeing it? Emceeing and hosting it.

I've even been

And just kind of for the Friday, we're just a nonsense, just pretend stuff's happened in the background.

Like, we've got Les Dennis playing tennis and Brian Ferry's watching telly.

There's stuff like that.

And I was like, probably.

Like The Chase or there's, like, the, um, The Hit List, the BBC one with the intro to the songs is a good one for them.

I wanna show these kids, uh, Les Dennis' Family Fortunes.

That's quite easy, that.

Yeah.

it wasn't great.

But the stuff with him, Les Dennis, and, um, Sean Williamson was quite a clever idea-

Yeah

... of them just being s- you know.