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Les Dawson

July 2022

  • ‘Everything he touched exploded’ … Jon Culshaw in Les Dawson: Flying High.

    Jon Culshaw on Les Dawson: ‘even his most savage mother-in-law lines were written with love’

    In his Edinburgh fringe show Flying High the impressionist wants to convey the warmth and affection of the comic and Blankety Blank host

November 2021

  • An environmental activist with the words "Act now" painted on her forehead.

    Brief letters
    Climate action can’t be endlessly put off

    Brief letters: Climate cliff edge | Canned Heat | Unwashed hair | Sweetpeas | Eider ducks

December 2019

  • Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about comedy, from Eric and Ernie to Lee and Herring

    Ken Dodd’s biographer picks his zingers from the literature of laughter-giving

October 2018

  • Ray Galton in the late 1970s.

    Ray Galton obituary

    Half of the supremely talented writing duo who produced popular comedy hits such as Steptoe and Son and Hancock’s Half Hour

June 2017

  • Small comforts in desperate times: Jack Lemmon, right, in Some Like it Hot.

    Stop the world, I need a break

    Victoria Coren Mitchell
    The news is terrible, but here are some things to force it out of your mind for a moment

January 2017

  • Castaway - 1986<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Cannon/Uba/REX/Shutterstock (5879136i) Oliver Reed Castaway - 1986 Director: Nicolas Roeg Cannon/Uba BRITAIN Scene Still

    Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways

    The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic

August 2016

  • Blankety Blank Christmas special

    TV and radio blog
    Blankety Blank is back – let's hope it doesn't get the Keith Lemon treatment

    The gameshow is returning to ITV. Again. But will anyone manage to match the effortless elegance of Terry Wogan as its new host?

July 2016

  • Richard Wilson in BBC’s One Foot in the Grave for the series’ final run in 2000

    I don't believe it! Victor Meldrew role almost went to Les Dawson

    One Foot in the Grave actor Richard Wilson reveals he originally turned down the part, thinking he was too young to play the cantankerous grump

September 2015

  • Lucy Mangan

    Whatever happened to the Great British Battleaxe?

    Lucy Mangan
    Alan Bennett is right to lament the disappearance of these indomitable matriarchs – they were a wonder of my childhood

July 2015

  • Nitrous oxide

    Lost in showbiz
    Hippy crack: how celebrities balloon from nowhere

    A puff of nitrous oxide is all it takes for full-blown notoriety

February 2014

  • Les Dawson in 1975

    Shortcuts
    Les Dawson's secret past as 'Maria Brett-Cooper', author of romantic thrillers

  • Les Dawson

    Les Dawson wrote secret romantic novel under a female pseudonym

June 2013

  • Les Dawson in 1991

    Comedy gold: the best standup on DVD
    Comedy gold – Les Dawson

    Behind the gurning game-show host was a complex comic who captured the hearts of the British TV-watching public

May 2013

  • Brian Logan

    Can a hologram Les Dawson tell 'em like he used to?

    Brian Logan
    Brian Logan: The deceased Dawson – and his gags – are being resurrected for a last show. But a hologram can't compare to the real thing

February 2013

  • John Ammonds

    John Ammonds obituary

    BBC producer and director with a key role in the success of Morecambe and Wise

September 2012

  • les dawson wife daughter

    Looking after Les Dawson's legacy

    When Les Dawson died, his daughter was eight months old. His wife, Tracy, was determined to keep the comic's presence alive as little Charlotte grew up – she even put a cardboard cutout of her dad by the cot. By Nick McGrath

February 2012

  • les dawson ada

    The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson by Louis Barfe – review

    A new life of Les Dawson celebrates a great British comic talent too often overlooked, writes Peter Preston

December 2011

  • Outnumbered

    TV tonight
    TV highlights: 24/12/2011

    Merlin | The Many Faces of Les Dawson | Outnumbered | Boardwalk Empire | Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1077/1978 | Timeshift: Epic – A Cast Of Thousands!

October 2011

  • Bill Bailey live session

    Soundtrack of my life
    Bill Bailey: soundtrack of my life

    The standup and musician on the Jam, aping Les Dawson's piano-playing at a wake and why Elton John reminds him of drunk photocopier salesmen. By Killian Fox

December 2010

  • Wagner Carrilho, X Factor

    Rewind Radio: Moral Maze; Chris Evans; Cheque Book and Pen

    The moral dimension of X Factor brought some questionable debate, but Johnny Vegas's Les Dawson was a class act, writes Tim Adams
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