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Ep 160: Sir Lenny Henry

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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I Was a Black Kid in Ill Fitting Flares in a Tank Top

i had this weird life of trying to integrate, trying to assimilate into british culture. So when i met greg and mack and tom, we were my best friends in the world. They made me go on stage. Once i was on the telly, it was different. Everyone wo wanted to be near the kid who was on the show. But when i was just this black kid in ill fitting flares in a tank top, there was a real thing in the midlands,. you know, was he doing that kind of thing? Er, we overcame that. And because these guys were, honestly, they were brilliant. They drove me everywhere. They lent me money

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