Sir Lenny Henry started working in television when he was just 16-years-old - starring in Britain’s first ever black sitcom ‘The Fosters’. From the beginning of the 80s Sir Lenny was involved in ...

Shutterstock He said: "Tiswas represented an anarchic ... Sir Lenny got his own sketch programme, the Lenny Henry Show in 1984, running for two series in the 1980s. It featured Sir Lenny as ...

After Tiswas, he was signed up to the 1981 BBC sketch show Three ... Henry claims to be the first British comic to have made a live stand-up comedy film, with Lenny Henry Live and Unleashed going on ...