Article: I was Audrey Hepburn; Barry Cryer is one of Britain's top comedy writers and after-dinner speakers. He tells Peter Elson about his `accidental career'.(Features)

Byline: Peter Elson

THESE days, Barry Cryer, BA Eng Lit, Leeds (Failed), is probably best known as a panel list on Radio 4's anarchic panel game I'm Sorry IHaven't A Clue.

Yet in a career covering more than 50 years, he has collaborated as aco-performer or scriptwriter with all the comedy greats including Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Tommy Cooper, John Cleese, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Spike Milligan, Morecambe and Wise and The TwoRonnies. A particular favourite is Ken Dodd. Cryer says: ``Doddy is a giant, never seen to best advantage working on t elly. Doddy still talks about a world that doesn't exist any more or never did in quite that way. It's ...

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