Les Dawson Classic Monologue: The Secret of Life

One of Dawson's finest, self-penned soliliquies, touching on wives, bank managers, childhood, bad luck, and his search for Wisdom from a wise man in Tibet.
From Sez Lez Series Ten, Episode Three (Yorkshire Televison, TX 3 Mar 1976)

[@1409GM]

This man was a genius, poet and a consummate wordsmith.

[@jackthebassman1]

He was a sheer comic genius, wonderful wordsmith.

[@robofclanlennox]

How many comedians actually makes one laugh out loud? Not many. Les delivers every time!

[@miketaverner4451]

This man was and still is an all time favorite of mine . He always makes me laugh

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Dearly missed , and something the world will never see again.

[@cardiffbear]

Les Dawson - I salute you - In my opinion there were only a few greats - Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson, Peter Cook, Frankie Howerd, Eric Morcambe & Ken Dodd

[@achievementmaster6084]

Tony Hancock

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Freddie star ?

[@someonelikemyself]

Marty Feldman... He Wrote for Kennith Williams

[@mickeydodds1]

Benny Hill? Kenny Everett? Dick Emery? Russ Abbott? Stanley Baxter? Max Wall?

[@mickeydodds1]

Tommy Cooper?

[@BlackandWhiteshorts72]

'scurvy, disease but eventually we reached Knutsford'. genius

[@nickclarkson6404]

How many comedians can make you cry with laughter today?

[@aboutthemetal8783]

None

[@hometruths9411]

Quite a few, e.g. Lee Mack, David Mitchell, Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre...

[@i_wouldprefer_not_to1196]

@@hometruths9411 Michael McIntyre? Give me strength 🙄

[@lesglover9353]

David Mitchell🙄give ke strength.

[@richardh8082]

"Where would we be without a laugh? Right here!" Les Dawson on The Good Old Days :)

[@johntaylor6345]

Les was a genius. A brilliant wordsmith. A very funny man sadly missed. Rest in peace Les.

[@rebeccahooper7968]

Miss him ❤

[@susansmith9903]

My mother was so short-sighted, as a baby, she used to put the talcum powder on my face. I shudder to think what she did with the dummy 😂😂

[@hugosmits9243]

This man was good, next to Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd and Eric Morecamb...all great and funny men

[@rebeccahooper7968]

Hinge and bracket

[@rebeccahooper7968]

Morecombe and wise

[@50pence59]

Clearly one of the best of the time, because it’s ageing quite well. I can see some of Bill Bailey’s borrowings from this guy.

[@craigcapstick1078]

Shows ya. This was showing how Frank sinatra was. Thats the laugh. I clocked it. Brilliant from les 👏

[@deathletter69]

did you know that the first thing john cleese did post python was with les dawson? says a slot about how respected and admired he was :)

[@johnbob9717]

Love les damsons dry wit

[@acohen1980]

Agreed...all rounders..in their own styles..

[@billybank2012]

When you could be funny without being offensive.... True genius... Sorely missed...

[@patchreefs]

I think his singing was very good. I have heard worse. I think he should of done one good song every show. I wish I had found him before he died. He was great!!!!!!!!!! george

[@dozysplot]

3 people got frostbite up the Khyber...

[@jhonadam1420]

Pity we only see a circle going round and round!

[@dreadnaught3894]

LD . . . ever superb . . . . but the piano killed this one for me.

[@gillseagull8226]

Alan Partridge made me cry with laughter last night. Alpha Papa - brilliant.

[@cardiffbear]

I appreciate Cooper's greatest, but he's very hit and miss for me - but there's no doubting his comic genius.

[@RamblingBob]

Where are his mother-in-law jokes? "My mother-in-law was a hard woman, a hard, hard woman. She was thrown out of the SS.... for cruelty." "I shouldn't laugh... She's had a bad back and lost her job.... She was harpooner on a whaler."

[@Ruscococo1]

Tommy Cooper

[@nezkeys79]

Whos the pianist

[@Moondog-wc4vm]

Not sure, but with Les in focus in the foreground, and him constantly in the background like forced perspective shots it seems like he's only about a foot tall!

[@nigelcrisp68]

Shame about the piano volume

[@hughvane]

I thought the piano volume unobtrusive, for me it was the rapid rate of Les' verbal delivery. I need a script to read when listening to him.

[@ChrisNicholsFilm]

The one joke I can't figure out is the 'collateral' one - anyone explain it to me?

[@johnking5174]

+Christopher Nichols "Collateral" in terms of finance is having a property you own which a bank can take from you if you do not repay the loan you borrowed from them. Les's joke is that he thought it meant about his appearance.

[@DavidBensonActor]

'Collateral ' sounds like it could be a medical condition- just double entendre word play

[@gazza19144]

Get the subtitles right...or a hearing aid....funny les

[@Metaplayer]

I don't understand anything, and as I was thinking I must be hearing impaired or worse, stupid, I turn on the subtitles and get total restitution; youtube doesn't get it either =)

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Good, but you need to know VICTOR BORGE !

[@johnpick6829]

Miles better than that prat Michael macintyre

[@josephlandrut4154]

Les loved is wife and no doubt he was the only love in her life.

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Which one ?

[@chrisplace9773]

Piss funny ❤😂

[@jhonadam1420]

Pity we only see a circle going round and round!