@@copferthat I met him once, very briefly. We just said hello on the street while passing. We lived in the same suburb in Melbourne. I wish now, that i shook his hand & thanked him for his contribution for taking Australia to the world on the comedy stage.
@@Dave.C937 I know one thing Greg, we'll never see his likes again. I've watched everything he's done twenty times over and never tire of his brilliant creations. It's his ad libbing that truly made him so special.
RIP Barry Humphries (February 17, 1934 - April 22, 2023), aged 89 And RIP Sir Michael Parkinson (March 28, 1935 - August 16, 2023), aged 88 You both will be remembered as legends.
You have to salute Michael Parkinson for how he would interview all of Barry’s characters with astonishing sensitivity and good humour. If would be the most difficult assignment in the world but he did it with ease. What a team, Parky and Barry.👏
For me, Barry Humphries and Clive James WERE Australia when I was a kid. Proper blokes but whip smart and worldly wise . Imagine having both of them at your dinner party? Magic.
Cancel culture does take away the lessons we need in order to learn how to intend a better future. Barry Humphries, as far as public performances go, was ahead of his time in presenting comedy that was instructive in highlighting how oppressive those in power, on whatever level, could be toward those more vulnerable. It could just be on the level of a boss to an employee or an employee to a more vulnerable co worker. He gave a taste to everyone on all levels, of how tprivilege can be used to cause abuse and suffering. What follows in time, is normal people, as in this audience groaning and enjoying cringe laughing at his example of portraying what is now considered base behaviour. When Barry Humpries first started out with his characters he copped a lot of flack along the lines of " Nothing wrong with our behaviour, it's normal leave us alone." orelse " There is some bad behaviour like this in existence in some parts but don't show us up by pointing it out.".......and not just in Australia but the wider world also. Now look how far the world has moved forward in considering everyone's equal rights to freely realise their potential and contribute their talents and skills. Still a long way to go though. Still a lot more to do in remembering past champions for their good contributions, but also a need for reading the footnotes that need to be added about their detrimental mistakes as well, for making sure we don't repeat those into the future. I love Barry Humphrie's character of Sandy Stone that gentlemanly, wise old shining light of wisdom and wonder why, though I have regularly searched in the past, I cannot find a scrap of him on you tube. I would appreciate somebody pointing to where I might find Sandy if they know of a site.
So hard to watch with a tear 😟 What an amazing gift he was ☺☺PARKY always knew he was in the presence of a very special person and gave him full reign through the interview ☺ Barry Humphries , thanks for the laughter 👏👏👏👏👏
My goodness if that isn't one of the funniest pieces of television that I have ever seen, I'll stand rooted. I've watched it numerous times but I just had to revisit once again,,, r.i.p. Bazza
They say laughter is the best medicine... I have been laughing hard throughout and it has been very therapeutic for me! Sometimes I can't breathe! As vulgar and crude as he was, I think his amazing talent was a gift from God, and I hope he made it up there. RIP Sir Barry Humphries.
As a 57yr old Aussie, and even better a QUEENSLANDER, I appreciate this and hope when I turn 60, soonish, I hope to be as obnoxious, patriotic, witty, well dressed and smoking and drunk On ya Sir Les 😘
@@zakofrx I actually preferred Sir Les to Dame Edna....... Funniest crack a rib laughing shit..... We Down Under HAVE and had pollies not at ALL dissimilar.....😉🤣
Holy crap, I remember seeing this live on TV as a 9 year old in Australia, for some reason I'd been allowed to stay up later than usual, and while the 'adult' related humour went over my head I was laughing my ass off at how ridiculous this character looked. Now, decades later, thanks to YT I get to watch it again and this time get all the innuendo! Thanks meganoikz!
Australian culture never had a better ambassador....together with his unique sartorial presentation...his knowledge of all things antipodean is without parallel
Barry Humphries pushing the boundaries of farce while , of course, infusing it all with quite over the top character who is so far into the vulgar his grotesque parady is just amazing in our now PC ridden world. He is a joy to watch as it is biting satire!
Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,...
These Michael Parkinson shows are great. I grew up in London, Surrey and Kent during the 60s and 70s. I left in 84. So I sit in Mississippi and watch these old stars and I love it. Parky was on twice a week and I never missed. It was interwoven into my life like Morecombe and Wise, Tommy Cooper and Spike Milligan. Thanks for the post. You made me happy.
Moving from south eastern England to Mississippi must have been quite a culture shock? As a Mancunian, going on a road trip through northern Florida, Georgia and Alabama for a fortnight in the early 2000's was quite an eye opener. But I couldn't imagine moving there permanently.
@@OldhamSteve52 Dead right mate. There isn't a day goes by that I don't bless the day I climbed aboard a Peoples Express jet at Heathrow in 1984. What an ironic year I picked. Orwell's fever dream has come 100% true in modern Britain.
@@grizcuz Let me explain. I didn't move from England to Mississippi. I didn't know where I was going. For the first year and a half I wandered from Toronto to Guatemala. I lived in Miami for decades. I also ran a one man trucking business for 11 years and lived in the truck. From 2007 to 2019 I lived wherever the truck was parked. I have been all around the world and all of North America has been my backyard. I know it all extremely well. I have lived in Maine, Texas, Mexico and Winnipeg too. I even spent over a year in Thailand. I was teaching in Malaysia. The main takeaway is that I am super glad I left England. A horrible place in 1984 with no opportunity and a life of drudgery. Thank god I left.
Australian comedy at its best A bit before my time I was too young to enjoy this but luckily I remember fast forward and full frontal What ever happy to the Aussie sense of humour
I had the pleasure of seeing a Les Patterson/Dame Edna double bill live and was close enough to himself to get sprayed with spit. So funny and a deeply underappreciated comedy legend.
Well cobbers I beg to agree and disagree in a way, this is smart satire, and he's clearly taking the mickey out of a certain red-faced alcoholic type that existed in our times as we know. A certain kind of bloviated lecherous chauvinist type that was incredibly racist and colonialist and all the rest, and in 1981 we all knew what that was, and that it was funny because it was bloody gross. Hilarious send-up that would totally play today, if Australia had any decent entertainment industry left! (That's the real problem if you ask me, remember Hey Dad and Acropolis Now!? We used to have sitcoms for crying out loud...)
How Barry Humphries managed to keep a straight face and stay in the Les persona throughout this with everyone laughing I'll never know. Especially at 8:16.
from a time when people actually had a sense of humor and could laugh at themselves aswell as others and didnt get offended if someone spoke out of turn..
@@nottmjas Look up Barry Jones (Australian politician), Sir Les called him Bazza, and read about him. One very clever man. Let me just say he was undefeated in quiz show competition. He only finished because he won the prize at the end. I'm not sure how many others actually won it, before they were knocked off by others. Couldn't have been many. 🇦🇺
The passing of an age 😢 sad to see Barry pass with it RIP Barry, Sir Les, Dame Edna et al... and the new Puritans march on in the humourless world they are creating.
I seen dame Edna /sir les in Edinburgh about 2000 so funny I will never forget him the best show I have ever seen the monologue were brilliant RiP the world is much poorer with his passing
He was very serious about alcohol. Les’s drinking habits mimic his period of uncontrolled alcohol addiction late sixties and early seventies. He nearly died but was saved by medical and AA advice. He has contributed to AA whenever asked. It tells you how disciplined a scholar he was. My favourite countryman, vale John Barry Humphries, the man who really discovered Australia.
@@lifelongbachelor3651 right, and STILL the most clean-cut and successful of THIS kind of man (Les Patersons of the world). What part of my comment is wrong? And turn your brain on before you reply… I’m actually insulting Bob Hawke, dummy
First time for me (U.S.) hilarious but hard to decipher some of the national colloquialisms but the combo of costume and mannerisms are stomach clenching laughter. (granted seen every Python bit ever so I'm a prime target for the ludicrous) What can I do to click the like image a few hundred times. Thanks for the 'notif' that let me play it again and a revisit to stomach clenching laughter. I'm cut/pasting screen shots like that woman on his left just loosing it, to my daughter in hopes she will play the emailed link I sent. It takes someone that can step out of the act to realize so much of our daily world is in some measure what he portrayed and value this as much as I do. So many OH God moments of laughter, if not him, but the two innocent guests turned into stooges.
