Reaching for Perfection (with Lenny Henry)

[@RoboticPolishingBuffingDeburr]

Lenny is a part of all of our lives , back when there were 3 tv channels.

[@SuzanneO707]

As a kid living on a council estate outside Manchester in the 80s , watching you and Lenny, it was not shocking it was great, felt totally natural to laugh until my belly hurt. My friend still owns a "Spit the dog" puppet.👍

[@JJPwfelli]

Brilliant episode. Really comes over how Alexei and Lenny are good mates.

[@goingoutotheparty1]

Ah Two of my comedy heroes from my youth. Great stuff Gents 👍. I thought a tortology was a book about turtles or tortoise 🐢

[@cryptotrader2779]

Compost Corner ! Loved Tiswas. Anyhoo, great to hear Lenny is doing OK. Thanks for the interview.

[@loratadine921]

COMPOST CORNER!!

[@cryptotrader2779]

@@loratadine921 ;o) I was waiting for someone to write that. I'm amazed it took so long. Thanks.

[@ThisBritishLifePodcast]

Great host, great guest!

[@captcomps]

Really great interview. Free Palestine and save Lebannon. Thank you for all you do ❤

[@peterlayzell7245]

Great interview. In tears at the closing exchange between Alexie and Tal. Reflects my own sense of despondency.

[@jamesneedham-t7u]

I saw Lenny in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and he was fantastic. He also went round the audience in character before the play and greeted everyone, remarkably soft hands.

[@ianhannant7497]

Hi Alexi love your shows

[@adilchaudry7961]

Great episode! Two of my all time favourite comedians together

[@michaelrobson3460]

Surely tortology is the scientific study of tortoises.

[@lloroshastar6347]

I don't think anybody is duty bound to like a comedian, but I do hate the dishonest way some people hate on Lenny. Just the other day I saw a Facebook post on a Doctor Who page recommending something Lenny was in as he had appeared on an episode of Doctor Who. There were a few comments saying 'thanks for telling us so now we know to avoid it', with a big grinned emoji next to it like they had just said something clever or edgy. Like I said, nobody is duty bound to appreciate a comedian, I don't particularly like Seinfeld but I know it's an incredibly popular show, but the gusto with which people will tell you they 'don't like Lenny' is very telling, especially on certain apps like Facebook, Twitter or on the comments page of a local newspaper. Like flies to sh*t they simply can't wait to tell you they hate him. For why? Well let's be honest, because they think being racist is clever and different. Of course they will insist they aren't, over and over again, but then when you ask why they don't like him, either all they can say is 'he's just not funny', or they'll make a vague comment along the lines of 'he's just annoying', or then they make it really obvious and say 'he's token, he only gets the job because he's Black'. They also make up things about him, one common phrase I hear is 'he hates white people', I also hear this levied constantly at other Black celebrities and even politicians, Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott get this all the time, so does Anthony Joshua because he said something about supporting Black owned businesses. It's just the go to for people who are too cowardly to admit they are just plain racist.

[@clippyPaper]

Well it's good to know you're still about lad..... what's with the KZbin thing? you just got a big Lecky bill?

[@tarbooshrecords8530]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽❤

[@4-dman464]

44:00 Get Well Soon *Wilf* . *Wilf rules*

[@galesito1733]

I love Lenny, he comes across as a really lovely and genuine bloke. I always loved that old Jamaican man that he played who pronounced England as "Hingland". I also loved Chef, especially since I was working in a hotel kitchen at the time it was on.

[@davidlamb7524]

" Deakus". 😊

[@galesito1733]

@@davidlamb7524 That's him! Brilliant.

[@davidlamb7524]

@@galesito1733 My name is erm........ Deakus !

[@garyrigby21]

Lenny Henry said one of the funniest things ever but for the life of me I can't remember what it was! It was the African character he did ranting about things

[@djstumpy7399]

Was it the old man Deacus sketches or the jytv ?

[@djstumpy7399]

Oh no hold on Deakus was Jamaican. I'm slowly getting the it's cold in my flat sketch coming to my brain 😂

[@marxman00]

Compost Corner.........Sally james.....mmmmm

[@MERVILLE3]

Don't call him Sir, FFS

[@PaulEcosse]

Why do you listen?

[@DeathlyTired]

Insisting someone can't call another by their honorific title if they so choose is no different to those who demand that you have to use theirs.

[@gymnosophy]

Did the aromatherapist cancel it's meeting with Wilf

[@stevepinhorn5888]

Nice one but does Lenny know how to pause ffs!

[@MERVILLE3]

Tal playing his youth supremacy. At least we were safe from Jimmy Saville

[@Talalaban]

Huh?

[@moedeeb]

I haven’t listened yet but I can’t forgive Lens performance on Amazon lord of the rings it basically ruined the whole thing and he can’t need the money.

[@billyjo1148]

feck voting

[@MERVILLE3]

Dawn and Jennifer are no better than Bernard Manning, just coming in from different angles but equally useless

[@maggieadams8600]

I totally disagree with your point of view which is bafflingly off on every level.

[@ostrichman]

oh I dont know Bernard had jokes at least...

[@jamesneedham-t7u]

Manning was actually a very good comedian, I think your missing the point as to why hes despised! People would not be more sportive of Hitler if he was a better painter, being an awful human being tends to override that.

[@ostrichman]

@@jamesneedham-t7u yeah cause telling racist jokes in the 60s-90s in british working mens clubs where it was the complete norm is an equivalence to starting a world war which killed up to 80 million people worldwide, including the attempt to wipe the Jews from Europe. Fucking clown.

[@tolhumexy6706]

Stephen Fry said Bernard Manning was one of the best deliverers of a joke. Don't think he agreed with all of Manning's material though.