sentences:  Dawson's style as a comic was world-weary, lugubrious and earthy.He was a talented pianist but developed a gag in which he played a familiar piece such as Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and then introduced hideously wrong notes (yet not destroying the tune) without appearing to realise, smiling unctuously and relishing the accuracy and soul of his own performance.Dawson wrote novels.