When Les Dennis opened a show headlined by Lena Zavaroni at the London Palladium that was broadcast on prime time television, you could perhaps forgive the still young comedian for thinking he'd hit the big time.
The next night, however, saw Dennis back in his home town of Liverpool playing the less salubrious confines of Croxteth British Legion. Such, then, were the vagaries of life for the northern English working man's club comic in the 1960s and 1970s.
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