Henry Visits The Worlds Silliest Zoo (The Henry Books Book 2)

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• Lenny Henry - Wikipedia
• Three One-Act Comedies: Midgets and Basketball, Betrayal & Divorce
• Art and Esoterica
• Lenny Henry
• Tommy Cooper dominates list of best jokes

The next day she comes home to find her husband in bed with a beautiful redhead.

She grabs the gun and holds it to her own head. The husband jumps out of bed, begging and pleading with her not to shoot herself. Hysterically the blonde responds to the husband, "Shut up Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one - and let the other one off. Two aerials meet on a roof - fall in love - get married. The ceremony was rubbish - but the reception was brilliant.

A man walks into a bar with a roll of tarmac under his arm and says: I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'Have you got anything for wind? A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named 'Amal. Years later; Juan sends a picture of himself to his mum. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wished she also had a picture of Amal.

Her husband responds, "But they are twins. If you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal. When Susan's boyfriend proposed marriage to her she said: I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes last week, phoned her up to arrange a date but unfortunately she'd popped her clogs. A priest, a rabbi and a vicar walk into a bar. The barman says, "Is this some kind of joke? The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow.

I rang her up, I said "Did you get my drift? I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories.

After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said, "Are you two an item? I'm in great mood tonight because the other day I entered a competition and I won a years supply of Marmite So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds".

I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov world chess champion and there was a check tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the salt.

There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest.. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. I went down the local supermarket, I said, "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said, "Those are pickled onions". I swear, the other day I bought a packet of peanuts, and on the packet it said "may contain nuts.

That's what I bought the buggers for! You'd be annoyed if you opened it and a socket set fell out! My phone will ring at 2 in the morning, and my wife'll look at me and go, "Who's that calling at this time? If I knew that we wouldn't need the bloody phone! I said to this train driver "I want to go to Paris". Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. But when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West.

Three One-Act Comedies: Midgets and Basketball, Betrayal & Divorce

He slides up to the bar and announces: I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: I can hardly contain myself. I went to the Doctors the other day, and he said, 'Go to Bournemouth, it's great for flu'. So I went - and I got it. In Pictures - the story of love and romance: Compiled by Martin Chilton.

Art and Esoterica

Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Sunday 16 September Prior to the general election , Henry lent his support to Red Wedge by participating in a comedy tour organised by the campaign. In , he appeared in a TV film, Coast to Coast. It was a comedy thriller with John Shea about two DJs with a shared passion for Motown music being chased across Britain. The film has a strong following, but contractual problems [18] have prevented it from being distributed on video or DVD. In the early s, Henry starred in the Hollywood film True Identity , in which his character pretended to be a white person using make-up, prostheses , and a wig to avoid the mob.

The film was not commercially successful. In , he starred in a BBC drama alongside Robbie Coltrane called Alive and Kicking , in which he played a heroin addict, which was based on a true story. Henry is known as the choleric chef Gareth Blackstock from the s television comedy series Chef! Henry tried his hand at soul singing, appearing, for example, as a backing singer on Kate Bush 's album The Red Shoes [ citation needed ] and, backed by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd , at Amnesty International 's Big fund raising concert.

He would occasionally return to singing, performing in small local venues in the West Midlands. Henry returned to the BBC to do Lenny Henry in Pieces , a character-based comedy sketch show which was followed by The Lenny Henry Show , in which he combined stand-up, character sketches and song parodies.

In , Henry was listed in The Observer as one of the fifty funniest acts in British comedy. In , he was listed in The Sunday Times as the fifteenth funniest black performer of all time. Henry is associated with the British Comic Relief charity organisation, along with his former wife, comedian Dawn French , and Griff Rhys Jones , and has hosted the show and also presented filmed reports from overseas on the work of the charity. He was the voice of the British speaking clock for two weeks in March in aid of Comic Relief. He also voiced a character on the children's show Little Robots.

Henry appeared in advertisements for butter products in New Zealand, commissioned by the company now known as Fonterra , as well as portraying Saint Peter in the Virgin Mobile advertising campaign in South Africa. In the UK, he used his character of Theophilus P. Wildebeeste to advertise Alpen muesli , and promoted the non-alcoholic lager , Kaliber. His motive was to as he put it, "have one last adventure".

He did the voice of Dark Nebula in Kirby: The show lasted 90 minutes and featured celebrities discussing their enjoyment of Tiswas as children, as well as appearances from kids and people who had appeared on the original show. In late , he hosted a stand-up comedy tour of the UK.

In early , Henry's series lennyhenry. The programme has an accompanying website of the same name and broadcasts strange, weird and generally amusing online videos and CCTV clips. He starred in the Radio 4 show Rudy's Rare Records. In January , he appeared on the BBC's comedy show, Live at The Apollo , in which he played host for the night, introducing Andy Parsons and Ed Byrne , where he referred to Wikipedia as "Wrongopedia" for containing incorrect information about his life. He also offers his own writing tips and amusing anecdotes in the writing tips video clip on BBC raw words — story writing.

In , Henry produced and starred in a five-part web series for the BBC Comedy website, Conversations with my Wife , [22] about a fictional couple conversing over Skype while the wife is away on business leaving the husband played by Henry to hold the fort at home. In , he became the face of budget hotel operator Premier Inn , and to date continues to star in adverts for them. One of the adverts caused controversy and was banned from children's programming hours. The advert, from , parodied a well-known scene from the film The Shining , with Lenny Henry spoofing the scene originally starring Jack Nicholson , by smashing a door with an axe and then thrusting his head through the door saying: The show returned in , however, Henry was replaced by Darren McMullen.

Henry was criticised for his opening sketch for the Comic Relief, during which he spoofed the film The King's Speech and grew impatient with Colin Firth 's portrayal of King George VI as he stammered over his speech.

The Sun reported that the British Stammering Association had branded the sketch as "a gross and disgusting gleefulness at pointing out someone else's misfortune". In , Henry appeared in and produced a play based on his radio show Rudy's Rare Records , which played at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre before moving on to a run in London. In , Danny and the Human Zoo a ninety-minute film for television was made and shown, written by Henry and directed by Destiny Ekaragha , it was a fictionalised account of the former's life as a teenager in s Dudley.

In February , Henry appeared in the Northern Broadsides production of Othello , in the title role, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds , [30] directed by Barrie Rutter , who, before the production opened, said of the decision to cast him: This has come about from a completely genuine desire to do a piece of theatrical work. Henry received widespread critical acclaim in the role.

Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph said "This is one of the most astonishing debuts in Shakespeare I have ever seen. It is impossible to praise too highly Henry's courage in taking on so demanding and exposed a role, and then performing it with such authority and feeling. The frenzy within his imagination explodes into rage and, finally, wretchedness.

It's not a subtle reading but it works powerfully in this context. Henry has said that he saw parallels between himself and Othello. Eventually I thought 'where are they all? Things have changed a bit, but rarely at the BBC do I meet anyone of colour in a position of power. The production was scheduled to transfer to the West End of London from 11 September to 12 December , to be performed at the Trafalgar Studios in Whitehall.

He was introduced to Shakespeare when he made the Radio 4 series Lenny and Will , which saw him going "in search of the magic of Shakespeare in performance". The production was selected to be broadcast live to selected cinemas worldwide in March as part of the National Theatre Live programme. Henry's performance gained generally very positive reviews.

Paul Taylor in The Independent wrote that "Henry beautifully conveys the tragicomic plight of an innocent abroad. The album consists of both covers of blues classics, as well as original tracks co-written by Lenny. Henry met Dawn French on the alternative comedy circuit. They married in in Covent Garden , London. They adopted a daughter, Billie. It was reported that the separation was amicable. They had decided to separate in October the previous year but left it until then as they were still in discussion over the separation.

The Sports Film, Screenwriting and Diversity: Henry has been an open critic of British television's lack of ethnic diversity in its programming. During a speech at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in March , he called the lack of minorities "appalling," and he has continued to raise the issue publicly since. In , Henry was made a fellow of the Royal Television Society. Special Award in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lenny Henry in The Comedy of Errors in This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.

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