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Old 19-12-2016, 16:30
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I'm hoping it will be a South Bank Show style spoof with Desmond Olivier Dingleberry conducting the fawning, but I fear it will be a deadly serious high calibre BBC brown nosing.

I like the guy but his talent is sometimes exaggerated , he does have friends in high places, re the knighthoodship.
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Old 19-12-2016, 22:37
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Wow! Bitter much? Or perhaps jealous. Not sure which. And a nicely subtle allegation too.
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Old 19-12-2016, 22:45
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Thanks for the heads up, I can now easily avoid watching it even by accident, I now have the the title, the time and the channel
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Old 19-12-2016, 23:09
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I'm hoping it will be a South Bank Show style spoof with Desmond Olivier Dingleberry conducting the fawning, but I fear it will be a deadly serious high calibre BBC brown nosing.

I like the guy but his talent is sometimes exaggerated , he does have friends in high places, re the knighthoodship.
Finding that rather hard to believe.
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Old 19-12-2016, 23:13
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I enjoyed it. Lenny has been on telly pretty much my whole viewing life (going back to Tiswas) and it was a nice look back.

Lenny has had a fantastic career. A well deserved tribute.
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Old 19-12-2016, 23:22
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Saved by diversity agendas,just as his unfunny act began to wear very thin.
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Old 19-12-2016, 23:38
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I dint think he's said a funny thing in his life
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:00
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Lenny has had a fantastic career.
just not one in comedy though
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:07
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I dint think he's said a funny thing in his life
l can never understand why some people hate him so much, when he just did straight comedy he was far funnier than any of the present generation of unfunny stand-up "comedians" even if many are multi-millionaires.
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:34
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I thought it was great. I was riveted from the start. I do like him though, so that helps.
I wouldn't watch an hour about Jack Whitehall for instance.
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:43
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I am a fan of Lenny, and considering the people and projects he has worked with/on (outside of comedy) he deserves some kind of documentry. He meant a bit to a lot of british black kids back in the day and his importance of some one looking like him back in the day is and was important.

When it comes to comedy....i do not think he very over rated looking back but when you had people like jim davidson doing crap impressions of Carribeans it was a releif to have Lenny doing it better representation. But as a personailty i think there is a reason he has lasted. I have not seen what angle BBC2 will take with this but i cannot imagine it would be 70% based on Lenny "the comedian" (maybe wrong). But i do rate him as a actor.

PS. when it comes to hate from some people (not talking about the usual racist) i think it seemed to have grown around the time he broke up with Dawn French and of course when he stopped being the "compliant" black man and became more out spoken. Also there have been a couple of apperances where he has been a host where we can all see he was past it.
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Old 20-12-2016, 01:46
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l can never understand why some people hate him so much, when he just did straight comedy he was far funnier than any of the present generation of unfunny stand-up "comedians" even if many are multi-millionaires.
Well some people follow the crowd, same with people who disliked David Beckham or hate Andy Murray, ask some of them why and it all sounds like the excuse those people read of the red top newspapers.
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Old 20-12-2016, 02:54
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I'm very fond of him (maybe it's a Black Country thing/no pun intended/ but when he mentions Dud-lie it always cracks me up)

I remember him from the beginning, and I enjoyed how the programme showed him developing, particularly his interest in Shakespeare etc

Great bloke.imo
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:06
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Avoided this like the plague. Don't like the guy, he's not funny and shouldn't have been knighted, along with so many other non-entities including some sportsmen and others.
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:09
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Excellent documentary. Helping launch a charity that has raised so much plus his other work is deserving of a documentary.

Sister once sat next to a dodgy looking guy on the bus with his hood up looking at the floor.

The bus set off, he took his hood off and it was Lenny who then launched into his Delbert Wilkins routine for half an hour.

Driver stopped to get an autograph.
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Old 20-12-2016, 09:57
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I love Lenny Henry and we all need to remember he was the main organiser of
Comic Relief when it was watchable. He always comes across as being genuine and wears his heart on his sleeve. You only have to refer back to any of his stories involving kids in Africa etc to see what type of person he is.

I for one was delighted when he received his knighthood for services to charity.

Well done Lenny keep up the good work.
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Old 20-12-2016, 10:48
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I am a fan of Lenny, and considering the people and projects he has worked with/on (outside of comedy) he deserves some kind of documentry. He meant a bit to a lot of british black kids back in the day and his importance of some one looking like him back in the day is and was important.

When it comes to comedy....i do not think he very over rated looking back but when you had people like jim davidson doing crap impressions of Carribeans it was a releif to have Lenny doing it better representation. But as a personailty i think there is a reason he has lasted. I have not seen what angle BBC2 will take with this but i cannot imagine it would be 70% based on Lenny "the comedian" (maybe wrong). But i do rate him as a actor.

PS. when it comes to hate from some people (not talking about the usual racist) i think it seemed to have grown around the time he broke up with Dawn French and of course when he stopped being the "compliant" black man and became more out spoken. Also there have been a couple of apperances where he has been a host where we can all see he was past it.
I seem to remember that Jim Davidson did a humorous impression of a "Caribbean" that was based on a friend of his. No worse than Lenny Henry doing crap impressions of non-Caribbeans. Neither of them were supposed to be accurate impressions as John Culshaw or Alistair McGowan do and perhaps more akin to slapstick comedy.
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Old 20-12-2016, 10:51
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I love Lenny Henry and we all need to remember he was the main organiser of
Comic Relief when it was watchable. He always comes across as being genuine and wears his heart on his sleeve. You only have to refer back to any of his stories involving kids in Africa etc to see what type of person he is.

I for one was delighted when he received his knighthood for services to charity.

Well done Lenny keep up the good work.
I agree that Comic Relief was more watchable in the past though the first one does seem to have been a bit chaotic! I don't tend to watch much of it nowadays.
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Old 20-12-2016, 11:23
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Avoided this like the plague. Don't like the guy, he's not funny and shouldn't have been knighted, along with so many other non-entities including some sportsmen and others.
If you had watched the documentary you would see that his knighthood was well deserved in regard to his charity work.
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Old 20-12-2016, 11:40
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Excellent documentary. Helping launch a charity that has raised so much plus his other work is deserving of a documentary.

Sister once sat next to a dodgy looking guy on the bus with his hood up looking at the floor.

The bus set off, he took his hood off and it was Lenny who then launched into his Delbert Wilkins routine for half an hour.

Driver stopped to get an autograph.
Delbert Wilson!!! That would be a valid reason for asking him to leave the bus or for me, at least, to leave the bus - obnoxious routine.
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Old 20-12-2016, 11:42
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I saw the description for the programme in my EPG and it said that it was an exploration of his 'incredible' work.
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Old 20-12-2016, 12:10
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I did enjoy it, but I was surprised the The Lenny Henry Show had apparently been going up to 2012!
I have absolutely no recollection of it after early 90's.
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Old 20-12-2016, 13:18
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I did enjoy it, but I was surprised the The Lenny Henry Show had apparently been going up to 2012!
I have absolutely no recollection of it after early 90's.
I think it had a 10 year break from the 90s to the next series and then it came back sporadically until 2012
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Old 20-12-2016, 13:19
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I seem to remember that Jim Davidson did a humorous impression of a "Caribbean" that was based on a friend of his. No worse than Lenny Henry doing crap impressions of non-Caribbeans. Neither of them were supposed to be accurate impressions as John Culshaw or Alistair McGowan do and perhaps more akin to slapstick comedy.
Absolutely worse because it was a racist portrayal of black people because it was insulting and designed to belittle every single one of them.
Having said that, Lenny was guilty of 'selling out' during his early career ( New Faces etc) because he was basically trying to ingratiate himself with predominantly white audiences by demeaning not only himself but his 'blackness' in a way that made all black people figures of fun.Not at all good and something he later talked of being ashamed of.

Decent bloke and very good career when you factor in the serious acting and the charity work but tend to agree that a knighthood is OTT on balance but almost all of them are these days.
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Old 20-12-2016, 15:10
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im not a fan of people who use reverse racism in their so called comedy
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