Who Am I, Again? by Lenny Henry review – a cry of existential angst

Lenny Henry is heartfelt and contrite about pandering to bigotry as a young comic

“Lenny Henry owes me an apology,’’ said a black friend recently. “For all those years when he told unfunny jokes against black people on TV, Lenny owes me.”

But, focusing on the first decade of his career, Henry argues in his memoir, Who Am I, Again?, that for a black performer to survive in the world of 1970s light entertainment it was best “to get all the dodgy jokes in before [the audience] did”.

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