Lenny Henry, comedian and actor " portrait of the artist
'If I hadn't been able to make people laugh, I'd have ended up hitting someone with a brick'When did you first discover you could make people laugh?When I was 13. I got into lots of fights at school: I'd get racially abused, then lash out. One day, this kid said something and instead of putting my fists up, I said something back: people laughed, and he walked away. It saved my life " if I'd carried on the way I was g…