Bobby Davro reveals he got caught in bed with fellow comedian Les Dennis following a drunken night out.
During an interview on the My Dirty Laundry podcast. Bobby, 65, was asked to discuss his wildest night out and he responded: ‘I slept with Les Dennis.’
Speaking about his night with Les, 70, he said: ‘Now he is one of my best friends. And I went to see him up in Edinburgh.
‘Anyway, when I was up there looking at Les Dennis’ play, we shared some little digs and he took me back, he said, “You’re gonna be sleeping on the couch”.
‘And the couch was about half as small as this couch I’m sitting on. And I said, “I can’t sleep on this couch. I’ll come in with you”.
Bobby Davro confessed that he got caught in bed with Les Dennis following a very drunken night out, (pictured in 2018)
Bobby said of Les: ‘He was so drunk he couldn’t make it to the other bedroom side and I said “Come on I’ll help you, come to me. We slept together once, we’ll sleep together a second time”. This is where it gets funny… (Les pictured in 2014)
Appearing on the My Dirty Laundry podcast, Bobby said: ‘The estate agent who was doing the letting was showing someone around the flat’ and he walked in on him and Les
‘We put pillows down… we’re both heterosexual, you know. Anyway, I had to share a bed with Les Dennis and then a couple of years later I was renting a flat just for a short few weeks off Lee Mead, the lovely singer.
‘Lee had got a job in television and he’d gone off on telvision to do this job and I rented his flat off him. And I was staying there and then Les Dennis came and worked at Spamalot at the musical opposite where I was living in this flat.
‘And so we went out on the, on the lash and we had a great time. It was really great fun. He came back, came back to the flat, I said, “You can stay with me. I’ve got a spare room”. And he was so drunk he couldn’t…
‘We put pillows down… we’re both heterosexual, you know. Anyway, I had to share a bed with Les Dennis and then a couple of years later I was renting a flat just for a short few weeks off Lee Mead, the lovely singer.
‘Lee had got a job in television and he’d gone off to do this job and I rented his flat off him.
‘I was staying there and then Les came and worked at Spamalot at the musical opposite where I was living in this flat.
‘And so we went out on the, on the lash and we had a great time. It was really great fun. He came back to the flat, I said, “You can stay with me. I’ve got a spare room”.
Les (left) and Bobby, (right) have been best mates for years – pictured on stage at At Audience With Cliff Richard in 1999
The pair had been sharing a bed at Lee Mead’s house which Bobby had been renting off him while he was away working on a television job
‘He was so drunk he couldn’t make it to the other bedroom side and I said “Come on I’ll help you, come to me. We slept together once, we’ll sleep together a second time”. This is where it gets funny.
‘We get in the bed, he’s fast asleep. I’m tossing and turning all over the place. I don’t like sharing my bed too much, especially with a big hairy-legged man.
‘So I put the pillows down again, you know. So we’d fallen asleep, it was about three in the morning. And then at eight thirty in the morning the front door went. I went, “What’s, who’s coming in here?” We could hear it rustling.
‘And the estate agent who was doing the letting was showing someone around the flat. I could hear him go, “This is the kitchen over here, this is the lounge. And through here is the main bedroom”.
‘And they came in the bedroom together, right? And it’s a little cockney bloke with a cap.
‘And as he came in the bedroom, me and Les Dennis, we sat up in bed. And the little cockney bloke went, “Hey”, he said: “Look. It’s Bobby Davro and Les Dennis.”
And both of us said, ‘It’s not what it looks like’. It was a great, true story.
Bobby, who is recovering from a stroke he suffered five months ago – also said that comedians shouldn’t be afraid to joke about whatever they like – as long as they are not propagating violence or hatred.
He added: ‘I haven’t got an ounce of racism or homophobia or transphobia, I speak to everyone. But you can be picked up on something.
‘I think it’s mad. Well, we’re comedians. We don’t go out to offend. Nobody goes out to offend. Offence isn’t given. It’s taken. And you can be offended about anything…
‘And you have every right to be. But it doesn’t mean to say we have to be offended along with the same thing. And it shouldn’t cause cancel culture. It’s very bad.’
Meanwhile, Bobby , 65, has insisted he won’t get cancelled and he says no topics should be off limits to comedians – as he quips ‘if you don’t like the joke, don’t laugh’
The comic (pictured in the 80s) had a life-long career as a much-loved comedian, impressionist, actor and singer and received a standing ovation when he returned to the stage after suffering a stroke five months ago
He continued: ‘As long as you’re not propagating violence or hatred, I’m out there trying to make people laugh. If you don’t find it funny, don’t laugh. That’s okay.’
While the likes of Jimmy Carr have said they are just waiting for the joke that gets them cancelled, Bobby thinks he’s pretty safe where that’s concerned.
He said: ‘hopefully people like, well… I do enough that I’ve got an audience, I won’t get cancelled. I wouldn’t have thought so.’
Then he added playfully: ‘The amount of gigs I’ve got, my God.’
Bobby insists that if you don’t like an act, then simply don’t listen to them.
He said: ‘Don’t go around and cancel them just because you don’t like it. You can always get up and leave or turn the TV off or turn it off. You can always do that.
‘A lot of people… What’s the phrase? They want to be virtuous, don’t they? They want to be seen. I’m standing up for such and such. I’m standing up.
‘Sometimes, if you’re doing a joke, if someone did a joke about disabled people, they don’t need you… They can stand up on their own. no, they can’t can they?’ he quipped controversially.
He said: ‘I think it’s mad. Well, we’re comedians. We don’t go out to offend. Nobody goes out to offend. Offence isn’t given. It’s taken. And you can be offended about anything…’
‘People will say, “You told a joke about a disabled person”. I’ve got loads of disabled friends. They’d laugh at it. They don’t want to be… a lot of disabled people… They don’t want to be segregated.
‘They want to be accepted as, as like the rest of us. And that’s the way it should be. So why shouldn’t they have jokes to include them?
‘As long as you’re not picking on them, as long as you’re not selling hatred, as long as you’re laughing with them and not at them, then that’s the most important thing. People say, “you mustn’t say this. You mustn’t say that”. Yes. You MUST!
‘People just have to hear the word disabled or hear the word religion. It’s crazy. I do jokes about it.
Bobby – who lost his lovely fiancée to cancer last year, has said that he himself has made jokes about things that are painful to him in order to get a laugh.
He said: ‘I went out and told jokes about my dad the day after he died. So it’s just the association. I think Ricky Gervais once said, “I’d like a pound for everyone I’ve offended with my comedy”.
While the likes of Jimmy Carr, (pictured) have said they are just waiting for the joke that gets them cancelled, Bobby thinks he’s pretty safe where that’s concerned
Singing his praises, he said: ‘I think Ricky Gervais once said, “I’d like a pound for everyone I’ve offended with my comedy” And then he stopped and he said, “No, hang on a minute, I have got a pound for everyone I’ve offended”‘
Bobby said that he would happily tell jokes about the late Professor Stephen Hawking, who had ALS – because ‘he would love it’ – and Stephen would himself poke fun at his disability
‘And then he stopped and he said, “No, hang on a minute, I have got a pound for everyone I’ve offended”.
‘It depends on your sense of humour. And as long as you’re not hurting anyone, remember, a comedian doesn’t go out to hurt you. He goes out to make you laugh.’
Bobby said that he would happily tell jokes about the late Professor Stephen Hawking, who had ALS – because ‘he would love it’ – and Stephen would himself poke fun at his disability.
But when pressed, he agreed that poking fun at disabled children, could be out of bounds because they can’t stick up for themselves.
He said about his Hawking impressions: ‘It’s done out of sort of respect. He would love it, but it’s a very niche thing. And if it didn’t get laughs, I wouldn’t do it, because I’m not cruel. I’m not doing it to be cruel. I’m doing it as an impression.
‘And it comes down to sense of humour. Yours isn’t the same sense of humour as all the others. I can appreciate it. I can respect it. Okay.
‘It doesn’t mean to say that we have to be like you. Cause what makes you laugh might not make me laugh. You know? And so as I’ll come back to it, everything is funny if you can laugh at it.’
To hear the full interview, visit the My Dirty Laundry podcast.
