Home Advent Calendar 2018 Day 11: Les Dennis Laughter Show, 1990

The Laughter Show, maybe the BBC's most hostage to fortune show title ever, only had one series left before the great early 90s LE putsch, but given this went out on the 22nd everyone must have known the writing was already on the wall. You can tell from her getting a lengthy monologue sketch that his sidekick here Lisa Maxwell ("currently appearing in Russ Abbot's Palladium Madhouse") is being lined up to take over, which she did for one series just before leaving TV for years and returning as a serious actor. As per government decree for late 1990 there's a Gazza sketch in which the punchline is 'he cries'. Two, in fact. Still, nice to see Brian Glover.