In defence of Les B, I have to disagree Grab. Having booked him numerous times at my own clubs, and gone to see him at other venues, I would say that there has never been anyone better at working an audience, and damn few as good.

To watch him riding a punch line to extract the last possible chuckle, and then dropping an ad lib to get another howl of laughter, is to watch a great master of his art playing the listeners like a musical instrument.

I can't help feeling that you must have caught his act on a (very rare) bad day.

Don T.