I have always greatly disliked Lenny Henry. I have genuinely never known anyone who admitted to thinking him in any way funny, an opinion so common it was even referenced by the genuine comedian Ricky Gervais in a scene from his mid-2000s sit-com Extras. Instead, the most common comment I have heard about the man is “He only ever got on telly in the first place because he’s black,” an assessment I personally find all too plausible. In this, Sir Lenworth (for that is the true Caribbean-origin dead-name listed on his birth-certificate) was a probable early glimpse of our horrible televisual future.

There are plenty of talented black actors and entertainers out there, who get their roles reasonably and on merit; no one can complain Idris Elba was miscast or did a bad job in The Wire, or Sir Laurence Olivier in Othello. Sir Lenny wants something different, though, for he has now largely abandoned his former alleged comedy career, becoming instead an NGO-type campaigner for more ‘diversity’ on British screens – something he appears to consider a form of undeclared reparations for slavery.

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