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.'

He loved to undercut his own fondness for high culture. He was as popular with female as with male audiences and loved by the British public. A news reporter from the Sun looking for him after a show to interview him found him backstage joking with some cleaning women and making them laugh.

Leslie "Les" Dawson (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian and writer remembered for his deadpan style curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.