Les Dawson: a comedian who more than any other spoke for the phlegmatic resigned sarcastic glorious British way of life. This is his story. A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an uncommonly brilliant mind Les Dawson was always the underdog but his bark was funnier & more incisive than many comics who claimed to bite. Married twice in real life he had a third wife in his comic world
- a fictional ogre built from spare parts left by fleeing Nazis at the end of World War II
- & an equally frightening mother-in-law. He was down to earth yet given to eloquent absurd flights of fancy. He was endlessly generous with his time but slow to buy a round of drinks. He was a mass of contradictions. In short he was human he was genuine & thats why audiences loved him.