My favourite Cissie & Ada comedy sketch.

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Roy Barraclough, MBE (born 12 July 1935, Preston, Lancashire, England - died 1 June 2017, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England) was a British television actor, and comedian, active between 1965-2016. He is best known as the comedy sidekick of Les Dawson, and for his 219 appearances in the World's longest-running soap opera, Coronation Street. Les Dawson, Roy Barraclough - Laugh With Les ‎(LP). BBC Records And Tapes.

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Leslie "Les" Dawson, Jr. (2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993) was an English comedian, actor, writer, and presenter, who is best remembered for deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. 0 photos . Roy Barraclough. Roy Barraclough MBE (born 12 July 1935 in Preston, Lancashire) is an English comic actor. He is best known for his role as the shifty, lugubrious landlord of the Rovers Return, Alec Gilroy in the long-running British TV soap Coronation Street, and for.

The potty-mouthed, big-bosomed northern housewives of a certain age won the hearts of the nation in the 1970s, with their love of crude gags and salacious gossip. Barraclough teamed up with Dawson, who died suddenly in 1993 from a major heart attack, after he was asked to stand in for a missing actor on the first series of The Les Dawson Show. The comedy duo hit it off, creating Cissie and Ada in rehearsals in homage to music hall legend.

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Les Dawson was portly and often dressed in John Bull costume. He introduced to his BBC television shows a dancing group of fat ladies called the Roly Polys. Dawson's style as a comic was world-weary, lugubrious and earthy. A reporter from The Sun found him backstage joking with cleaning women and making them laugh. Before his fame Dawson wrote poetry and kept it secret. It was not expected that someone of his working-class background would have literary ambitions.

Sez Les' - Les Dawson as Ada and Roy Barraclough as Cissie. All this week, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Weekend magazine, we're bringing the rib-tickling TV moments that had the nation in stitches. ADA Shufflebotham (Dawson) and CISSIE Braithwaite (Barraclough) are enjoying a meal, a glass of wine and sharing some romantic memories. CISSIE: Tell me, chuck, when you went to Blackpool for your honeymoon, were you - this is girl talk really - were you virgo intacta? ADA: No, it was just bed and breakfast.