Book description
Les Dawson: a comedian who, more than any other, spoke for the
phlegmatic, resigned, sarcastic, glorious British way of life. This is
his story. A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an
uncommonly brilliant mind, Les Dawson was always the underdog, but his
bark was funnier and more incisive than many comics who claimed to
bite. Married twice in real life, he had a third wife in his comic
world - a fictional ogre built from spare parts left by fleeing Nazis
at the end of World War II - and an equally frightening mother-in-law.
He was down to earth, yet given to eloquent, absurd flights of fancy.
He was endlessly generous with his time, but slow to buy a round of
drinks. He was a mass of contradictions. In short, he was human, he
was genuine, and that's why audiences loved him.
