The Best of Les Dawson

Les Dawson made the motherinlaw joke his stockintrade but this master of standup comedy would play his audience with a rich array of comic talents His deadpan northern delivery a rubberlike miserable face which he himself described as resembling a sack of spanners his fishwife impersonations comic monologues and a unique talent for justoffkey piano playing would leave them screaming for more His sour downturned grin his cheeky flash of the eyes and an audience in uncontrollable hysterics are among the memories gleaned here as Les comperes Blankety Blank and Opportunity Knocks and displays his full range of comic talents in The Les Dawson Show