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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

55: Reaching for Perfection (with Lenny Henry)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It's only bloody LENNY HENRY!

Alexei's old pal Sir Lenny Henry finally joins the podcast family! Topics include the working men's club circuit, Tiswas and OTT, Lenny's brief stint in Hollywood and diversity in entertainment. 

And Wilf's cat acupuncturist swings by... obviously.

Stick around till the end for some depressing conversation about world news! Hooray!

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Welcome to episode 55 of your like to say a podcast and boy, have we got a podcast for you.

0:25.5

Well, we've always got a podcast for you because, you know, it's a podcast.

0:29.3

Because it's a podcast, yeah, and we're doing it for you.

0:32.0

So, you know, it's a kind of tautology.

0:35.2

I think it's a tautology.

0:40.4

First rule of t tortology club is anyway so what is what does tortology mean oh i can't remember now

0:45.7

linda what's a tortology yeah yeah Yeah You know saying something that means the same thing

0:58.0

Yeah

1:00.0

You know you like return back to you

1:08.0

Right

1:09.0

So a tortology is saying the same thing sort of twice really so it's like if you say return back to

1:15.1

that's a tortology okay so first rule of tortology club is the first rule of totology club okay

1:23.6

worth it okay cool yeah so yeah so yeah so we got my dear old Okay. Worth it. Okay, cool.

1:28.5

Yeah.

1:35.1

So, yeah, so we've got my dear old friend, Sir Lenny Henry,

1:41.0

in our tradition of doing both Marxist theoreticians and leading lights of the world of comedy.

1:45.8

We've got Selene Henry.

1:48.2

It's very revealing.

1:49.2

I have known Lenny a long time.

1:52.0

And we've been through some ups and downs together.

1:56.0

And I think if you're interested in comedy, you'll find it.

2:00.5

Comedy and comedians, you'll find it fascinating. What a journey and a life, man. Yeah, I mean, what an extraordinary. I didn't realize how early he'd started. Oh, shit, yeah. As a kid. Yeah, he's a child, yeah. But that was like, what, mid-70s, early 70s early 70s and yeah early 70s well I met him

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