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Powell's offering us £1,000 to go home. I'll take the money: the train fare's only 10 quid from here to Dudley.

— Lenny Henry

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Multiple variants of the same basic joke exist. Reputedly, Henry first performed the joke on the New Faces television talent show in 1975.

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