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  Lancashire Telegraph

  Reality star pays tribute to late father Les Dawson after visiting Lancs statue

  Charlotte Dawson paid tribute to her late father, Les Dawson, after visiting his Lytham St Annes statue.

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  The Guardian

  Four years on from #MeToo, the Oscars’ feminism has gone rapidly backwards

  While the dial only seemed to be turning one way, the 94th Academy Awards was unexpectedly rich in sexist ‘her-indoors’ gags, undoing any progress

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  Herald Scotland

  Letters: Jimmy Carr went beyond the boundaries of acceptable comedy with his Holocaust jokes

  WHAT do we want from our comedians and their humour?

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  The Independent

  Barry Cryer: Prolific light entertainment writer and elder statesman of comedy

  With a career spanning half a century, Barry Cryer worked with many of the greats of comedy, TV and radio

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  Sky News

  Barry Cryer's best jokes throughout the years

  Barry Cryer, who has died aged 86, established himself as a writer on TV show The Two Ronnies, and he also worked with other stars of British comedy such as Tommy Cooper, Sir Billy Connolly, Kenny Everett, Dave Allen and Les Dawson. Cryer received an OBE in 2001 and in 2018 was given a lifetime achievement award for his comedy career by the British Music Hall Society. In his much-told moth joke, Cryer told the story of an unfaithful wife who hides her lover in the bedroom when her husband ret

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  BANG Showbiz

  Charlotte Dawson furious over car break-in

  Charlotte Dawson was left furious after she discovered thieves attempted to steal her car by smashing the windows.

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  The Guardian

  The Tories are cheering the voyage to a Brexit promised land that doesn’t exist

  The Tories are cheering the voyage to a Brexit promised land that doesn’t exist. Boris Johnson’s foreign policy is a combination of pompous internationalism and wilful parochialism

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  The Guardian

  What exactly do Ian Botham and John Cleese offer ‘global Britain’?

  What exactly do Ian Botham and John Cleese offer ‘global Britain’?The ex-cricketer and lapsed comedian have found new work in politics and TV respectively, but they are trading off old successes and even older opinions Now that’s what I call global ... Ian Botham and John Cleese. Composite: Getty Images

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  The Telegraph

  The genius of the genesis of Les Dawson's mother-in-law joke - The Lost Tapes, review

  In the timeline of 20th-century British comedy, it counts as a historical artefact: written evidence of Les Dawson’s first mother-in-law joke. It appeared in a script for a BBC radio show, produced by the Dawson when he was an unknown. The joke was about his wife but there on the page, in Dawson’s neat script, “wife” had been scratched out and replaced. “My mother-in-law threatened to throw herself in the canal. Hope she doesn’t do anything silly… like changing her mind.” The gags improved after

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  Yahoo Celebrity UK

  The 5 best shows on TV tonight: Wednesday 21 July

  There's an unusual new dating show to check out on Netflix, while another programme explores the life and career of Les Dawson.

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