Coronation Street star Les Dennis has revealed that he would love to make a return to stand-up comedy.
The comedian and actor plays Michael Rodwell in the ITV soap, but started his career on the comedy circuit and told BBC Radio 5 Live that he would like to go back to his roots.
He said: “I would like to maybe do a retrospective thing, you know, maybe looking at clips and then talking about it and doing some stand-up routines about being an older dad. Looking back at those days, that’s where I started, so yeah it would be nice to get back and do some stand-up.”
But Les said in his interview with the Phil Williams Show, which will be broadcast tonight, that he was having a great time in soapland.
He said: “I’m loving it, I really am. I’ve always been a fan of Coronation Street, all my life.
“I used to do half of the cast in my act along with Dustin Gee (his comedy co-star). We used to do Vera and Mavis, sort of famously. So to actually now be working on the cobbles and playing Michael Rodwell, it’s a dream come true. We have a great laugh, so yeah, I’m having a great time.”
Dustin died of cardiomyopathy, the same condition that Les’s Corrie character has, and he admitted it added extra responsibility to the role.
He said: “Michael’s condition is cardiomyopathy and it’s a sudden death syndrome. So it’s a really responsible storyline that we have to get right.
“Dustin died of cardiomyopathy. He had a different type of cardiomyopathy but it’s interesting that I worked with somebody who was so close to me and was living life to the full, too much to the full I think, and he collapsed with that and died.”
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