Comic Roots
- TV documentary
- BBC One
- 1982 - 1983
- 8 episodes (2 series)
Factual series in which a number of top comic names reveal their early lives and what made them so funny.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - Les Dawson's Lancs
Further details
Pawnbrokers, poverty, policemen and boxers - these are a few of Les's Collyhurst memories. But it was a Manchester community which stuck together and lives on in the minds of those who have left it to the ravages of the developers.
Lancashire mill folk and Blackpool landladies are also a fertile source of fun for Les - so they feature in this amiable amble around the people and places of his past. With Roy Barraclough.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 2nd August 1982
- Time
- 6:50pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 35 minutes
Press
Comic Roots (BBC1) is a new short series about the background of comedians. As nobody knows what comedy is, you can only hope to pounce on it sideways when it isn't watching. Are you likelier to end up as a comedian, if you began life as a child in Collyhurst?
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 3rd August 1982