The Lenny Henry Show (1987) - S01E01 - Sonny Sidles Up

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[@oaor2303]

I watched this on VHS in Nigeria and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@sammysammy7666]

We used to watch this too in St lucia in the Caribbean

[@gregbattles4742]

I love it when I find new classic black TV.

[@jeanettesamuel5437]

not just black - we whites love this too xxx

[@AJM01]

I loved this as a child in the 80s and was recently watching an episode and realised Patrick from Eastenders made an appearance!

[@ThatGuy-bd9rf]

Absolutely one of my favourite television memories living in the UK during my teens. Some of you might think this is crap, but it's groundbreaking television and it's not nearly as bad as some of you claim. You probably think "Friends" is true comedy genius. DSD Movies make some good points. The show contains many good 80's poitical references and of course themes from this show tie in to Henry's variety and standup appearances. Later shows also as good, especially "Chef" and even the excruciating "Bernard and the Genie" had some good bits.. He's a comedy star and a wonderful advocate for broadcast equality. Bloody hell there is just so much comedy in this series .. I can't believe people don't like it. Bless you 'radionecks' for your generosity in sharing!

[@tanakinskywalker7089]

Friends is alright but the best comedy show of that nature was are you being served. That’s real humor not the annoying neurotic 20 somethings. And coupling was also miles better than friends

[@steeviem1835]

Did you watch, 'Desmonds. 'I loved that, too.

[@Grandmastergav86]

Friends is terrible.

[@chrisfoxwell4128]

This is the worst kind of formulaic writing. The laughter track is funnier than anything else. Chef was entertaining. This is not.

[@bluesdave7063]

Yeah Lenny Henry was funny back then these days all he talks about is being black shame cos I don’t talk about being blues as that wouldn’t be funny either.

[@jlp7184]

I remember watching this show while stationed in England in the 80s. Cool seeing this 30 years later

[@lynnedwards7592]

I’m seeing and hearing this for the first time. In Canada we had Chef. This is a treat

[@yardleyj9391]

I'm in Canada and also my first time seeing this. A treat Indeed.

[@stellank7931]

Loved this show growing up

[@TheWomble001]

Wow. I feel so old. I used to watch this when I was 6 years old.Thanks for uploading this, great memories.

[@garolopez887]

I remember this , wonderful memories flooding back.

[@mulengachomba]

This is still funny, love Lenny Henry

[@rebels42wynn83]

This is my very first time watching this. It's incredibly hilarious 🤣 😆 😂.

[@darwin5921]

Yeah if you’ve got the mindset of a childish moron…. I’m gobsmacked how anyone could find this type of comedy funny. I’m actually 2nd hand embarrassed. Its silly, dimwitted buffoonery that panders them with low IQ

[@jamieoutland5325]

I knew nothing about this show. Glad i found it

[@bulletproofblouse]

LOVED this programme when I was 12.

[@backbaconnbeer]

Lenny Henry went on to star in the tv series "Chef"..

[@axelof1]

I missed this when i was 17, i wasn't ready for it maybe, i think its really funny, it was a head of its time. i grew up with Lenny though, he has always been there, Top bloke.

[@chailatteoreos5094]

I missed this show 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidreynolds4684]

Just found this. Thank you. Im a big lenny fan but limited in the US.

[@ReliableMyke]

Came here 'cause I was looking up Lenny Henry's IMDB from him being in the new Lord of the Rings TV show Rings of Power. This is hilarious!

[@400bhp2]

The actor playing Delberts dad is the same actor who plays Patrick in Eastenders. And the actor was also one of the cops in the comedy The Thin Blue Line.

[@lmjones7716]

This hasn't aged well at all but we were laughing back then and that's all that matters really.

[@npm1811]

Watching for the first time (20yo) and I think it’s aged well. It’s funny and he’s a decent actor.

[@KneeCapHill]

How is this not aged well? Society hasn't aged well

[@400bhp2]

Winston was brilliant. Also he was in an episode of Fools and Horses. The Longest night.

[@bongga8]

thank you. One of those shows that really make you laugh!!!

[@Standing_on_the_word]

Classic lenny love it still. 👍👍😁😁😀💙💙

[@philwalters2127]

RIP Louis Mahoney aka Uncle Jake. "How's your liiiiife"!!!!

[@feckineejit]

Speaking directly to the home office was well done

[@ahmadtarmidziismail4981]

I miss this show. Guide to cruciality 😁

[@kuksybee]

Daaaaaaamn!!! I've still got this on VHS!!!! How on earth did u manage to clean it up?!!! Top class!!! Kudos to you my friend.

[@9Lies-NineLies]

I used to run a pirate radio station in the 90's. Really related to this show. Lenny Henry looks younger now than he did then! I don't :o

[@AR-ii3ly]

A classic show. Shades of Blackadder humour (in Brixton) though, but all the same I never missed an episode.

[@paulgurdie9763]

lenny henry show should release on dvd

[@kevinraybanks3071]

This bought memory’s was little boy grate show in its time 👊🏾👍🏾🙏🏾💯✌🏾🌏🌈

[@sallysson]

Wow. I wish I had known about this show when it was on. I used to watch Chef and ran across this after watching The Jealous west Indian Man. Now that I think about it, I don't remember how I was watching Chef in the 90's before the internet. I live in the US

[@ProudKansan08]

I just found out last night that HE was the one who was married to Dawn French, that incredibly funny actress of Saunders and French. Wow! I finally looked him up to see who he was.

[@debbiebrown2413]

so funny but now I feel old we had good tv back in the day

[@marXman9573]

Wow that's my day sorted then !!

[@garolopez887]

Never saw this episode before !!

[@MrBoreray]

If anyone can find Lenny's take on the Raj called 'The jewel in India's passage' they will see him at his very best ,its side splitting,I am not a fan of his standup routines but 'the jewel' is top notch

[@monsieurmike2072]

LH BABY!!!...🤣🤣🤣..good times ...the 80's rule...good memories..the customer in the restaurant is from BEAN..he made a few cameo appearances in the 90s comedy as the teacher in bean exam..his mom in this comedy is mrs Robinson..the lady who he goes after...with the same name..its here on you tube

[@godsson7787]

Reading the comments and im thinking why so much hate for lenny henry. This series put a smile on my face. Not a fan of his stand up but hes a national treasure for the black british community. Put some respect on his name.

[@studio2165]

I cant find a single one pal..

[@mildpigeon]

His stand up “Live and unleashed” is fucking legendary!

[@LychaonNightspell]

I was born this year ! 1987 :D~

[@pinchbeck56302]

Lovely Rudolph Walker !

[@shermanvermin76]

LOL! Does anyone remember (either in 1995 or 1996) [it was around late 1995 and early 1996] 'The Lenny Henry Show', where Lenny himself did his usual parodies of TV shows, like 'The Loin King' (parody of the 1994 popular Disney animated feature movie 'The Lion King'), 'The Right Trousers' (parody of Wallace and Gromit movie 'The Wrong Trousers') and ROTFL! 'Frankanory' (parody of 'Jackanory')?

[@lmmiex2480]

Omg. That's Patrick from eastenders

[@businessaccount6261]

lmmie x2 where where

[@MrSalvia18]

all i miss is this chris tarrant tv and Rapture radio

[@SimBir08]

He`s from Dudley, which is in the Black Country

[@davedogge2280]

He's still got the 'Street Cred' !

[@kevinjohnson1958]

As a 10yr old black UK kid this was my favourite show. Doesn't age that well but I still appreciate it

[@takeshihiraoka5310]

Hella funny. Best quote POLICE MESSAGE, YOUR USELESS!

[@tonymontana1179]

Lennys awesome

[@forgottenpalace4472]

The girl behind the counter in the cafe, the one with the black and white striped shirt is wearing Girbaud jeans. They were THE JEANS back in the day.

[@BillyJango]

Gina McKee working in the cafe.. Beautiful!

[@karpetcabin]

Billy Jango well fit!

[@tonydoherty2190]

Cheers i couldn't think of her name

[@ibraheemtoure1201]

What i love is that the guy is a trini not jamaican xD

[@edwardfrench796]

Mad there was only a couple years age gap between lenny and ellen who plays his mum

[@josephxuereb4407]

The shadow has returned

[@bobjones6411]

Agree all way 😝

[@dmh872]

1:54 in the stripy top and the perm - Gina McKee

[@LALakersNornIron]

"LENNY HENRY SHOW"""""🎵🎵🎹

[@seemysticsoul9339]

RAREGROOVE

[@chopper8357]

i used to love this as a child......i didnt know shit from clay.

[@rubamann]

Is this the same people who did The Donovan and Mrs. Johnson? I'm talking about the son and mother.

[@Jackiexx101]

Same -.-

[@samanthagreen5535]

😂❤😂❤😮

[@DavidMarfe]

This is still funny 30 years later

[@swaggerjagg22]

Hey his dad is Patrick from eastenders but younger

[@KumbaIvor]

Good Lord. Isn't that Mrs Johnson?

[@mandeepsekhon]

Patrick Truman

[@pantarei8382]

English fresh prince

[@afuzzyduck]

SPOILER: sometimes it *was* a repeat

[@1cjmalcolm369]

Rose is Mrs Johnson.

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

Mrs johnson at 22 minutes

[@garolopez887]

Rudolph Walker !!

[@rooneya100]

If you haven't got anything nice to say don't say anything at all PERIOD.

[@romangodofvoodoo]

Tom Kilpatrick shut up

[@johnsmith-wx5fb]

Periods aren nice, FULL STOP.

[@Alexlittle9]

🤣🤣🤣

[@mrmagoo.3678]

6 more sub's and the money starts rolling in!!..lol..

[@stallionsw9forever425]

2024

[@Kalyopa]

Donovan

[@truthhitman7473]

This was great and a treat at the time, considering how racist Britain is towards black talent

[@barryleslie7727]

Wow I was 13 when this was first shown. I thought his style was amazing. It's really not aged too badly but the jokes seem a little naive. In comparison, Only Fools and Horses jokes seem to have stayed the course.

[@DSDMovies]

I won't pretend it's great, but it's not as bad as it could have been. I like the attempt to at least allude to the tension between the people and the police, even if it's softened. Prime time, BBC1, predominantly black cast, many other non-white actors, all just being people. Why have things gone backwards since then? Why is there essentially no mainstream comedies from people that aren't white? There have been some, and they've been awful, but that's the genre itself, 99% of all sitcoms are awful, nothing to do with ethnicity. The BBC, or whoever, should be comissioning more pilots, getting more series done. Only with a higher volume of shows being tested can the good stuff appear. Right now they don't take chances on anything, rarely make anything new.

[@AlexOjideagu2]

+DSD Movies There is the black stand up on BBC 3 with his own show now.

[@marciathedj8088]

I tend agree with some of comments. We have sadly gone backwards in too many ways... I don't even want to start Let's keep it positive. I still applaud Lenny making lots of strides that's indirectly blessed a lot of people in the UK.

[@Muskateering]

+DSD Movies Yes, like Desmond's. And yes ethnicity has NOTHING to do with good humour.

[@astralcowboy5511]

yeah, cos it's the colour of the cast that counts, rather than the quality of the programme

[@jazzyjazz8903]

+DSD Movies spot on

[@biggdaddy202003]

British version of Steve Harvey with those suits lol.

[@mogx2586]

Ah do you remember liking LH before he became racist? Ah bless. Good times.

[@HughJarse1968]

Was he knighted for giving up comedy?

[@GMANKOOL23]

@Danielle , how was that egotistical and Bill Cosby did the same thing with his character Heathcliff Huxtable , and called it The Cosby Show

[@RicosChannel1]

lol this older than me -.-

[@thegoodjinn8065]

Lenny Henry trying to be real...LOL!

[@strontiumstargazer103]

One 30 minute yawn

[@nopefranks1154]

I never saw this before im gutted. I was born in 87 but that's no excuse. I even watched the young ones as a kid and that felt ancient to me. But I loved bottom and those guys. Red dwarf. Vicar of Dibley and that Irish one. DRRRRRRRRink. F whats it called. Father Ted. Why have I never seen this then. I liked lenny as a kid even tho he must have piled the lbs on after this. Did I say lbs I means £'s. Then stones from all those fine wine dinners and chics on each arm.

[@BIGRODSIC]

Never seen this before but is extremely corny

[@Damontable]

Jesus this is awful. Glad I'm too young to have experienced this.

[@jahno7154]

There's 'plenty of Bernard Manning on youtube why you watching this ?

[@Damontable]

@@jahno7154 you assume I dislike it because he's black. I don't. To assume that is racist in itself because all you see is obviously skin colour. I dont like it because it's terrible. Also, if I'm too young to remember this, I'm too young to remember Bernard Manning. I looked him up. Awful stuff too. You take care now (assuming you're not a Russian bot). And practice not just seeing skin colour. 🙂

[@sumthingwikked4257]

@@Damontable I didn't read anything mentioning that you disliked it because he's black so... Take care of that foot you've just shot off with that statement. We'll air Mrs. Brown's Boys for you on 24 hour repeat.

[@darz_k.]

Crap.

[@SuperBashem]

As funny as a heart attack

[@drdolittle6361]

Lenny 'I hate white people' Henry.....what a great guy!

[@camillebrowder350]

This show is PAINFULLY terrible!

[@walboyfredo6025]

You should see some of the 1970 ITV sitcoms (Seen some of them on KZbin), eg , Doctor at large,, on the buses ( with sexist aged so called humour) etc my parents love it but l found it as funny as finding a King Cobra in your bed! Those programmes are MEGA CRAP TERRIBLE!

[@jahno7154]

Too dark for you hey

[@brianhurley3343]

What a shame he's racist now. Time to cancel Lenny.

[@Rashy225]

I thought cancel culture was bad

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Lenny Henry is not funny and never has been, most of us cant fathom why he ever got to be on Television in the first place. Was he just in the right place at the right time when TV executives needed a black comic actor with a brummie accent. He seems to have done financially very well, for someone with very little talent. I say financially otherwise it'd get confused with talent, like calling the lottery winner a very successful person, when infact their wealth came from pure luck

[@midastouch4323]

someone has an attitude!!! LOL

[@homebell4866]

He's a good actor perhaps

[@jahno7154]

@@homebell4866 He's a great comedian

[@homebell4866]

@@jahno7154 I agree he is good

[@jahno7154]

@@homebell4866 I thought he good also he wouldn't of got his own TV show if he was rubbish and on the BBC

[@stevetobin7495]

Now hes a woke shill..sold his soul

[@salvadormarley]

The most unfunny man who ever lived, apart from Peter Sellers.

[@walboyfredo6025]

That title belong to either Ant and Dec...