• The Lenny Henry Show is a comedy sketch show (and in its 1987–1988 incarnation, a sitcom) featuring Lenny Henry. It was originally broadcast between 1984...
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    and early 1980s, culminating in The Lenny Henry Show in 1984. He was the most prominent black British comedian of the time and much of his material served...
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  • Lenny Henry in Pieces is a British stand-up and sketch show by comedians Lenny Henry and Gina Yashere. It aired on BBC One between 2000 and 2003. The...
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  • The One... is a comedy sketch television series starring Ronnie Corbett, of The Two Ronnies, Lenny Henry of The Lenny Henry Show, Jasper Carrott, comedian...
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  • Gina McKee (category Actors from the London Borough of Haringey)
    and the Central School of Speech and Drama. McKee began her career in TV with several background roles including a part on The Lenny Henry Show. She...
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  • Lenny Henry's sidekick Winston Churchill in The Lenny Henry Show (1987) and David Sinclair in Casualty (1996–97). Since playing Rory Breaker in the hit...
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  • the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role that he played from July 1990 to July 1993. Other television credits include Grange Hill (1983–1984), The Lenny...
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  • Lipman's Agony, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Reardon's Week, and Dave Podmore. Engel, Matthew (20 December 2022). "Andrew Nickolds obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved...
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    sketch show starring comedians Lenny Henry, Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield. Three series were made by the BBC between 1981 and 1983. The show bolstered...
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    actress, known for her roles as Liz Webbe in the Channel 4 sitcom Teachers and Claudette Hubbard in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. In Teachers, Thomas...
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  • Liz Smith (actress) (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, One by One as Gran Turner and The Lenny Henry Show. In 1984, Liz Smith received a BAFTA...
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    Christmas Day show in the UK. In a BBC poll in 2004 it was voted Britain's Best Sitcom by television viewers. Lyndhurst appeared in the show from the start until...
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  • Carla Mendonça (category Alumni of the University of Warwick)
    Coronation Street, Sophie Johnson in the CITV children's sitcom My Parents Are Aliens (2001–2006) and Mrs. Fitzgerald in the CBBC series So Awkward (2015–2018)...
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  • programmes including Not The Nine O'Clock News, on which he first met Mel Smith; Carrott's Lib, starring Jasper Carrott; The Lenny Henry Show; Spitting Image;...
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    Sheridan Smith (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    three series of the sitcom Grownups (2006–2009). She has also appeared on The Lenny Henry Show as M.E. Westmocott, a role spoofing the various medical...
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    then went on to create the BBC show Ghosts, which ran for five seasons before the team decided to retire it. Farnaby played the fictitious Conservative...
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    in a variety of roles in Tracey Ullman's Show from 2016. He also appeared in an episode of the Netflix show, Lovesick, portraying Dylan’s father at surprise...
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  • Daisy Haggard (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    take up the life of an actor. Haggard later graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She appeared in the BBC Three sketch show Man Stroke...
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    appearing in comedies such as the aborted pilot episode of Blackadder, Chelmsford 123, The Lenny Henry Show and the first episode of Red Dwarf. In 1991...
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  • the first British television shows to do so, and paved the way for future series such as The Real McCoy, No Problem!, Desmond's and The Lenny Henry Show...
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    here. At the sound check, I sat on his lap and during the show, he and his band played 'Happy Birthday' to me." Norment, Lynn (June 1994). "Lenny Kravitz:...
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  • Jocelyn Jee Esien (category Actors from the London Borough of Hackney)
    You've Gone, Holby City, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Stone Is Dead, Comedy Nation, The Fast Show, Douglas, The Bill and In The Name of Love (TV movie). She...
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  • Mark Monero (category Alumni of the Anna Scher Theatre School)
    other credits include The Lenny Henry Show (1988), Young, Gifted and Broke (1989), The Bill (1985; 1988; 2001; 2009). He starred in the BBC comedy Gimme Gimme...
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    Pip Torrens (category Actors from the London Borough of Bromley)
    four entries to date. Son of the Rev. Robert Harrington Torrens, MA, and descendant of the lawyer and colonial official Henry Whitelock Torrens, Torrens...
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    commissioned. Throughout the rest of the 1980s, Bathurst appeared in episodes of The Lenny Henry Show, Who Dares Wins, The District Nurse, Red Dwarf...
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    Gina Yashere (category Comedians from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets)
    in the comedy series The Lenny Henry Show, where she played Tanya and Mrs Omokorede, the pushy mum. She voiced Keisha on the animated series Bromwell...
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    Harriet Thorpe (category Actors from the London Borough of Camden)
    as the rather patronising and superior head of the Women's Institute; Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet; Greystoke; The Calling; and S.N.U.B. Also The Lenny Henry...
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  • Carrott's Lib" – via www.imdb.com. "The Lenny Henry Show". www.bbc.co.uk. "Madness the Pilot" – via www.imdb.com. "Lenny Henry Tonite". September 25, 1986. p...
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    Jennifer Saunders (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders, for which they jointly received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009. Saunders later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing...
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  • Chef! (category British English-language television shows)
    comedy starring Lenny Henry that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 28 January 1993 to 30 December 1996 on the BBC. The show was created and...
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