Lythams finest.

Drinker.

Apparently he was an autodidact.

Amongst other things.

It was the piano playing for me. It must be really hard to play 'wrong'  

Nice wee statue like Eric..

I loved him 

He was one of the best.

Some of these joke are having me in tears.

One of those comedians you could get a real 'belly laugh' at 

I'm having a right old laugh here.

Oh drat, I'm recording something else atm. He was one of the very best

They showed this joke in a clip:

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, Six should be enough." 

I know one should not laugh, but...

I've turned over 

David Jason looking very young.

Cyanide 

I said to the wife, 'I wish you wouldn't smoke in bed.' She said, 'But a lot of women do.' I said, 'Not bacon they don't.'
 

The wife's Mother said, "When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave." I said: "Good, I'm being buried at sea." 

I was lying in bed the other morning playing a lament on my euphonium when the wife, who was prising her teeth out of an apple, looked back at me and said softly, 'Joey.' She calls me Joey because she always wanted a budgie. She said, 'I'm homesick.' I said, 'But precious one, this is your home.' She said, 'I know, and I'm sick of it.' 

Hilda and Ada.........hilarious! 

As I can't watch thanks to those giving a commentary on his jokes, love them

they were a brilliant twosome

One of the lines that frequently comes up regarding Les Dawson is "You have to be really good to be able to appear to play that badly."

I've no idea of the context, but my Mum claims to have heard him play "seriously", and she says he was very good...

My mam and dad used to say that too Eugene, that he was very good 

It does seem like a backwards way of coming at it, but knowing many musicians they say that if you know how to play the instrument you can then play something with carefully selected "bum notes" which the audience still recognise and they naturally understand what is wrong but see the humorous side to it.

Hope that makes sense.