Les Dawson may well have been an 'end of the pier' act who seeemed good enough for a limited 2 channel TV selection in the 60s/70s (in these days ITV or BBC) but quite frankly this man was absolutely awful. Was never funny, He based his very limited repetiore on a deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. If Dawson was 'discovered' today he would never have made it. Absolute garbage and as funny as syphilis.