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Les Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Les Dawson (2 February 1931 - 10 June 1993) was a popular Lancashire comedian, known for his deadpan style. Dawson was a curmudgeon, famous for jokes about his mother-in-law and his wife. Dawson's humour, though earthy, was seldom coarse, and he was as popular with female as with male audiences. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Les_Dawson   (326 words)

British comedy scripts - Les Dawson - Cissie and Ada Les Dawson's Cissie and Ada is a collection of some of the scripts I wrote for Les when I worked as his scriptwriter during the years 1978 to 1983, originally on two series of the BBC's' The Dawson Watch' and subsequently on three series of 'The Les Dawson Show'. Les was Ada of course, and Cissie was played by Roy Barraclough, who you may recall later starred as Alex Gilroy in Coronation Street. Les Dawson, British comedy's finest, was a joy to know, in real life exactly the same person you saw on your TV screens. www.razza.fsnet.co.uk /Les-Dawson.htm   (115 words)

Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Division of Dawson, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland. Dawson College is a large English CEGEP in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dawson Community College is a college in the city of Glendive, Montana, USA. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dawson   (304 words)

Les Dawson, Collyhurst, Comedian, Bricklayer's son. For as well as being a superb stand-up comedian, Les Dawson was also a first-rate pianist, an excellent pantomime artist, a sketch-artist, writer and had even played in a jazz band in his time. A great deal of the success of Les Dawson's act lay in the combination of his deadpan delivery and his remarkably adaptable face, which he himself described as resembling a 'sack of spanners'. Les Dawson's death in 1993 robbed the entertainment industry of one of its most talented stars, who was admired by both his peers and by a whole school of younger comedians and performers. homepage.ntlworld.com /alscot1/LesDawson.htm   (454 words)

Les Dawson at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Les Dawson (2 February 1933 (1934?) - 10 June, 1993) was a popular Lancashire comedian, known for his deadpan style. Dawson was rather a curmudgeon, famous for jokes about his mother-in-law and indeed his wife. Dawson began his entertainment career as a club pianist, but found that he got more laughs by playing wrong notes and complaining to the audience. www.wiki.tatet.com /Les_Dawson.html   (231 words)

Guardian | Blue award for Les Dawson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) A blue plaque to honour the Manchester-born comedian Les Dawson was unveiled yesterday at the city's Palace theatre. Dawson, who died in 1993, rated Evans as one of the funniest comedians of his era and regularly named him as an inspiration. Dawson received the honour from Comic Heritage in conjunction with his widow Tracey, who said Les would have been delighted. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3890898-103690,00.html   (265 words)

Sez Les - Nostalgia Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Born in Manchester in 1933, Les Dawson soared to fame at the end of the 60s, delivering - with tremendous deadpan panache - a succession of mother-in-law jokes and humorous observations on life. An accomplished piano player in his own right, Les Dawson's off-key piano playing has to be one of the consistently laugh-out-loud funny comedy institutions. Dawson's successes began to accumulate after TV appearances on Comedy bandbox and Opportunity Knocks in 1963, which led to spots in variety shows, and eventually in April 1969 to his own series, Sez Les, which propelled his name to the top. www.nostalgiacentral.com /tv/comedy/sezles.htm   (288 words)

BBC - h2g2 - Les Dawson - Comedian Born in Manchester on 2 February, 1933, the rotund Dawson spent the best part of a decade struggling for laughs in the notoriously tough working men's clubs in the north of England, before his big break on the ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1967. Dawson is usually remembered as the master of that much-maligned comedy genre, the mother-in-law joke. Dawson would also don National Health spectacles and pull a grotesque face to become Cosmo Smallpiece, a spectacularly dirty old man with the peculiar catchphrase 'Knickers, knackers, knockers'. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A1094258   (737 words)

Mirror.co.uk - News - LES'S GIRL Shot in the tragically brief time they were able to spend together, it shows a doting Les bathing and feeding his daughter, taking her for walks, playing with her in the nursery and discovering her first tiny tooth. She adds: "Les had started a diary about everything we did from the moment she was born, so I carried that on and she's always had that, too. Les is still in her life - and mine - guiding her every step of the way. www.mirror.co.uk /news/tm_objectid=16362013&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=les-s-girl-name_page.html   (1398 words)

Les Dawson Funny man Les Dawson would have audiences in stitches with his elastic face, off key piano playing and jokes about the mother in law. One of stand ups driest comedians Les Dawson was a firm TV favourite in the United Kingdom during the seventies and eighties. Les had deep feelings of inadequacy and always craved success. www.beertarot.com /drunksark/lesdawson.htm   (149 words)

Les Dawson - Comedy Genius, Actor and Celebrity Les Dawson, who died from a heart attack in June 1993 was one of our country's best loved comedians. Folowing Meg's death, it must have seemed difficult to continue, but fate played it's hand, and he found a friendship with Tracy that blossomed into romance and marriage. Les will be remembered for the skillful way he could play a piano - so far off key that whilst you recognised what the tune was - you struggled to remember the "proper" version it, and for his deadpan humour in the style of Rochdale's Norman Evans, who he so admired. www.lesdawson.biz   (512 words)

Manchester Broadcasters, Television and Film Actors including Brian Rredhead, Joan Bakewell, Les Dawson, Roy Kinnear, ... Born in a cobbled street in Collyhurst, Manchester on February 2nd 1934, Les Dawson was a well loved and popular national television comedian, wit and show host, known for his sardonic and doleful style and countenance. He would be variously described by his peers after his death as 'the last of the clowns', and having 'a face of granite, a heart of gold'. They first performed at Lee Road Social Club in Harpurhey, where Dawson was immediately popular, as he came to be in the working mens' club circuits of the north-west. www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/broadcasters2.html   (2758 words)

Géographie physique et quaternaire : A MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE PALEOSOL SEQUENCE FROM DAWSON RANGE, CENTRAL YUKON ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) The Dawson Range is a part of, but rises above, Yukon Plateaus (Mathews, 1986), a rolling upland with broad and generally accordant summits and ridges that typically lie below 1500 m. Intrusions of mild air from the Pacific Ocean moderate the climate of the region from the Arctic climate that characterizes northern Yukon (Wahl and Goos, 1987). The amount of uplift that has taken place in the Dawson Range since 0.99 Ma (the maximum age for the youngest pre-Reid glaciation and effective limiting age for the paleosols) is not known. www.erudit.org /revue/gpq/1999/v53/n3/004837ar.html   (5142 words)

Les Dawson - TheBestLinks.com - Boxing, February 2, June 10, 1993, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Les Dawson - TheBestLinks.com - Boxing, February 2, June 10, 1993,... Les Dawson, Boxing, February 2, June 10, 1993, 1931, 1986, Lancashire... His best known routines featured Roy Barraclough and Dawson as two elderly women, Cissie Braithwaite and Ada Sidebottom who, having worked in a mill in their youth, spoke some words aloud and mouthed others; they also repeatedly pushed up their bosoms, in pantomime dame style. www.thebestlinks.com /Les_Dawson.html   (338 words)

Sedgley Motor Cycle Company He was well known for his successes in motorcycle racing, and used to produce his own racing machines. The machines were not very attractive to the motorcycle buying public, because they were looking for an ordinary road going machine, rather than a specialised racing machine. Les Dawson soon left the business and emigrated to Canada. members.iinet.net.au /~inphase/public_html/sedgley/trades/sedgley_motorcycle.html   (298 words)

A Card For The Clubs Sez Les Dawson in his first novel, a bitingly funny book that follows the career of comedian Pete Warde through the grinding round of the club circuit to the success of the London Palladium and back again. Great man, Les Dawson, one of the very best comedians of his era, distinguished by the breadth of his work: his material was so rich, from the stand-up one-liners through the character sketches to the wonderful, wonderful piano gag. You have relatively high hopes, of course, because Dawson was always strong on language, and he had an intelligence that didn’t always endear him to early audiences. www.trashfiction.co.uk /card_clubs.html   (624 words)

News: Axed US Banzai is resurrected Les Dawson's previously unseen diaries are to be revealed in a TV show this spring. The show also includes interviews with those who knew him, from his days of selling vacuum cleaners, his army life and his early performances in the Northern clubs to the height of his nationwide success. Les Dawson's Lost Diaries will be broadcast in April, as will Who Stole Bob Monkhouse's Jokes. www.chortle.co.uk /news/feb04/les.html   (385 words)

Les Dawson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Les Dawson was born in Manchester in 1934 and rose to fame with jokes insulting his wife and the mother-in-law, a staple, if rather un-PC, type of British humour. It is not as comprehensive as the two volumes that Les wrote himself, but this is not a distraction. Les was not an overnight success as some would beleive, he had been workign the circuits for many years before making it on Opportunity Knocks, and this books tells of the struggles and his doubts even after he became famous. www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/dawson.htm   (693 words)

Perspective UK North Les Dawson, comedian and would-be writer, was a lover of words. Les Dawson came from a poor family in Collyhurst, Manchester, and had said, "The only things we folks were rich in was love." What they lacked in material things, they made up in other ways. He appeared in Jokers Wild (series), Stars on Sunday, Sez Les (series), Royal Command Performance (1973), and took over from Terry Wogan as host of Blankety Blank. www.northtrek.plus.com /les_dawson.htm   (762 words)

Blankety Blank - TV Programs Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk Les Dawson was class and Blankety Blank was _________________ It was presented by Les Dawson from 1983 - 89, he was a very funny man. Before him Terry Wogan presented it from 1979 — 83. Les Dawson asked a question with an obvious clue. www.dooyoo.co.uk /tv-programs/blankety-blank   (309 words)

Viva Les Vegas! The St Helens funny-man, who is lined up to play the part of Collyhurst legend Les in a new BBC film, was presented with his award by 13-year-old Charlotte Dawson. The youngster was only eight months old when her dad died and gave the evening a real sense of poignancy when she got up on stage, joined by her mum, Tracy. "Les is the only comic I've been compared with and been happy with the comparison," he told the sell-out crowd. www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/comedy/s/179/179938_viva_les_vegas.html?rss=yes   (686 words)

Search Results for Dawson - Encyclopædia Britannica It rises in the Carnarvon Range and flows southeast, northeast, and north for about 400 miles (640 km) through a 50-mile-wide valley to join the Fitzroy River... It has the Mile “Zero” post marking the beginning of the Alaska Highway and is a terminus of... Attempts to predict the impact of the term-limits law on the issues of crumbling infrastructure, environmental regulation, and urban sprawl. www.britannica.com /search?query=Dawson&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (419 words)

Dawson, Les --  Encyclopædia Britannica The community, named for George M. Dawson, the geologist-explorer, developed after the gold strike at nearby Bonanza Creek in 1896. During the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, Dawson's... The Dawson Valley Irrigation Project (inaugurated 1923) comprises several weirs and mainly serves cotton and dairy farms. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9111730?tocId=9111730   (664 words)

Les Dawson Show Classic TV Show Following Sez Les this was the series that confirmed Les Dawson's fame as one of TV's most consistently hilarious comedians. I was on one of the first tapings of Fast Friends with Les Dawson. I was a teenager and my family had a cafe near a club where Les was appearing for a week. www.classictelly.com /programme.php?Programme=Les+Dawson+Show   (538 words)

Les Dawson - UKGameshows He died in 1993 after a heart attack. Before he became famous as a comedian, Dawson used to write poetry. He broke his jaw in a boxing match, thus being able to pull grotesque faces by pulling his jaw above his upper lip. www.ukgameshows.com /index.php/Les_Dawson   (119 words)

tata.com :TCS inks pact with United Utilities Tata Consultancy Services on Thursday signed a three year agreement with United Utilities, worth 30 million sterling pounds (Rs 200 crore) for delivery of IT services even as the former is expecting its UK business to contribute 90 million pounds revenue this fiscal. Dawson said the main objective for UU was to enhance efficiencies across the business, including the provision of IT services. Vandrevala, who is also the chairman of NASSCOM, said the association would announce the IT industry performance for the third quarter and its outlook for the fourth quarter on February four. www.tata.com /tcs/media/20020104.htm   (622 words)

eBay - les dawson, Autographs, Books items on eBay.com LES DAWSON an evening with LP comedy humour TV Les Dawson Nookie The Bear Panto Flyer 1979 LES DAWSON Orig Contour Evening Wt LP 1976 Lovely Cond search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=les+dawson&newu=1&krd=1   (367 words)

Tracy Dawson Tracy Dawson is a very charming and charismatic lady. She began fund raising in 1986 together with her late husband Les, one of our best loved comedians. Following his sudden and unexpected death, Tracy has carried on with her charity work, receiving much support from Les's fans, the media, and the public generally. www.lesdawson.biz /tracy.htm   (205 words)

News - Blackpool Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) FYLDE funnyman Les Dawson was not a man used to being walked over. Tracy Dawson, Les's widow, said her late husband would have been delighted to be walked over by so many people. She said: "I am sure Les would be in his element knowing he was mingling in London's theatre land with some of the best actors and comedians in the world. www.blackpooltoday.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=62&ArticleID=1191209   (469 words)

BBC News | UK | Mother-in-law jokes outlawed Butlin's is spending £139m updating its image and old-style stand-up no longer fits the bill. Les Dawson - the daddy of them all The father of all mother-in-law jokes was Les Dawson who became the patron saint of the genre. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/62878.stm   (292 words)

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