You might think you know Lenny Henry. But think again.
In 1975, a gangly black sixteen-year-old in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret appeared on our TV screens for the first time.
This apprentice factory worker from Dudley had no idea he would go on to become a national treasure.
One of seven kids of Jamaican parents, from a young age Lenny was blessed with a natural ability to make people laugh - under almost any circumstances. An invitation to audition for ITV's New Faces would change his life, and British comedy, forever.
But those first years of show business, in a 1970s Britain of questionable variety shows, casual chauvinism and blatant racism, were a bewildering experience. At every stage, he wondered:
*Am I good enough? Is this what they want? Who am I, again?' Here, at last, Sir Lenny Henry tells the revealing, moving and very funny story of his rise to fame.