Les "Oucho" Morrison is a character appearing in the episode Send in the Clowns of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
Les was one of the top-billing actors in Ferabbees Circus who performed as the clown "Oucho," along with his co-star "Groucho," who were prominently featured in advertisements. They both starred in an act where he would constantly humiliate his peer by throwing a bucket of water on him and pours glitter all over him, though is countered with a classic "pie in the face" gag; and the act literally ends with a "BANG!;" namely the gun barrel flag. Whenever he wasn't on clown duty, Les would serve as the propsman for the circus performers. While he enjoyed the act more than his co-star, though behind the scenes, he had a huge alcohol problem that Terry would constantly address and despite pouring the entire bottle on the ground before their first show back in Swynton, he drinks some more. Back in the dressing room after the performance, Les notes that Terry bonked him a bit harder in the nose than usual. When Terry announces his plans to leave for "Geronimo's," he gets heartbroken and tries to remind him that he's nothing without him, though fails to make him stay.
Angered, Les comes up with a revenge trick to get back at Terry, but not before meeting with his wife Daniella, the next day, where he reveals to her in a drunken stupor that her husband was responsible for the death of her sister; setting the episode's murder mystery into motion. The next day, as poor John Barnaby is left on his own in the audience, the "Groucho and Oucho" trick plays the same as usual, though things take a drastic turn near the end as not only does Oucho's gun look more realistic, but instead of a flag popping out, it fires an "actual" bullet that kills Groucho on impact; though was actually done by his wife from a hole she cut in the box-office tent. When the police respond to the scene, Les is immediately arrested on suspicion of murdering him out of revenge. Though thanks to the discovery of Fleur Perkins, the police is able to determine that Les was not the killer and that he fired blanks; contradictory to the .240 calibre bullet found in the victim's heart. When they bring him out of custody to reenact where and what he was doing at the time of the murder, he confirms that he didn't mean to kill Terry, purchased the stolen gun from a "bloke in Swynton Arms," and that he only wanted to get back at him for all the humiliation he put him through; along with adding that the blank bullets were given to him specifically by his co-star. When Jamie Winter shows him a photo of the clown stalking Swynton, asking if its him, Les immediately denies.
For the rest of the episode, Les is out of focus, though he does appear drinking in the background of the Bellini camper when Sophia is questioned about Denton's death and when looking for the final suspect, they catch Les coming out of the trailer to reclaim one last photo of him and Terry; claiming that the rest were destroyed by Daniella after something personal he said to her, which he claims had nothing to do with the case. While stumbling his way out of the RV, he knocks over the musical box that contains the rediscovered locket that belonged to Elsa; unknowingly helping Barnaby determine who the real killer was.