@@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.
@@farnthboy I'm sure sir Les had his fingers in many pies ,but like the character himself they were imaginary pies, that's the only reason I can say with certainty that he wasn't corrupt ,unlike real politicians, you follow?
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.
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.
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
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.....😉🤣
Australian culture never had a better ambassador....together with his unique sartorial presentation...his knowledge of all things antipodean is without parallel
@@Tourist1967 Basically the first thing he did was lurch all over and attractive female guest then arrange a huge phallus to point in her direction. Followed by racially stereotyping Asians. Need I go on?
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.
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,...
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!
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...)
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!
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.
@@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. 🇦🇺
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.
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.
@@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
Sir Les RIP. Having being born in the early 60's I clearly remember people lighting up pipes and cigarettes and cigars everywhere on Tv...live shows like this no exeption. Seeing it now in 2024 makes me feel 160, not 60.
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
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..
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.
"Whether you be Hun, Nip, or Darkie, raise your glass of lager, rum, or saki and drink to my old cobba, dear old Parkie." - Sir Les Patterson (Barry Humphries) Wow, this won't age well. How long will it be before this is canceled?
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
@@samsearle4433 My ex girlfriend an Aussie hated him. I think she hated the idea that this represented an Aussie. I am an Aussie citizen so I am familiar with Aus humour. I think he is very funny. Not as keen on the Dame edna character but still its funny.
@@messenger8279 I'm a Brit and can tell you that Barry Humphries was absolutely loved over here. And most of us hope that the true Aussie is just as he portrayed - funny and politically incorrect. Just as the rest of the world should be.
Can't believe I missed his prop , unless it's the real thing of course , as he adjusts himself when he first sits down ,the first time I watched this,,,hilarious,,,
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.
I've seen this several times over the years, but had to watch it one more time tonight. RIP Sir Les. You will be sorely missed.
I'm the same, if I need a really good laugh, just look up Barry
Just laughed so hard!! Loved sir les!
@@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.
A F! LEGEND ... I show Sir Les to my uni students all the time (PROPER education)! 👍🏻
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.
Hilarious
No mean feat to contain himself
As barry did his act
Its a masterclass in comedy watching him
Sir Les was the only uncorrupted politician in Australian history, God bless him,
Although there were allegations he manipulated the cheese board.
@@thekitowl hahahahahahahahahahaha ,yes but there are to many holes in the allegations,
Pure as the driven snow.
@@farnthboy I'm sure sir Les had his fingers in many pies ,but like the character himself they were imaginary pies, that's the only reason I can say with certainty that he wasn't corrupt ,unlike real politicians, you follow?
@@thekitowl Deservedly so. There were always holes in it.
Barry is ad-libbing his way through this interview. A comedy genius.
❤ indeed
11:33 "I'm chairman of the Australian Cheese Board..." Moments you can never forget.
Someone who doesn't give a s**t and Barry Humphries is a breath of fresh air. Kudos to Jackie Weaver for taking it all in the spirit it's meant.
It would not be taken in any other spirit nowadays but to try to cancel him. Shocking times we live in now.
She had no authority.
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.
I miss those days man. No one offended apart from when it was intended
@@summerrr1 Don't know if you noticed, but Jackie was laughing her arse off. She got the joke. Did you?
I just had to do an employer-mandated computer lesson on harassment in the workplace. What a breath of fresh air Sir Les is!
Goodness, look at Jackie Weaver! Stunner
Gorgeous.
Jackie Weaver is in hysterics throughout. Brilliant.
Absolutely adored in the UK. He will be missed.
Yes.
Jackie Weaver ..what a girl..No women could get Sir Les today..she is pure class....
She had a good tutorial as the female lead in The Coming Of Stork.
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.👏
Barry Humphries is one of the finest character actors ever.
NOT gonna disagree
Rest in peace, Barry Humphries. You were one talented, hilarious man.
Barry Humphries, a great Australian icon and comedy genius.
May he rest in peace.
How can I cringe and feel sick when he dribbles and laugh and adore him at the same time- genius.
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.
Genius doesn't do him justice.... Absolutely incredible talent
Was lucky enough to see him live. I never laughed so much in all my life as that night. RIP Sir Les xxx
Yes Carmel. It’s a shame Hanna gadsby didn’t learn from him
@@patkelly6349 Don’t mention that hack and Barry in the same conversation !!
@@Lunchladydoyle agree
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
We lose him when we need him the most..
Not sure if I had tears of laughter or sadness running down my face!
There won’t be another like him again. RIP Barry.
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 😘
He will be missed...
@@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.....😉🤣
Australian culture never had a better ambassador....together with his unique sartorial presentation...his knowledge of all things antipodean is without parallel
I like a kangaroo most weeks.
Puts a spring in your step.
Stay Free
austrailian culture is an oxymoron
Minister for the "Yarts"...😂
@@recoswell
Do you not understand 'taking the piss'?
Jackie is adorable 😍
"no worries, just make it a bit baggy around the knees" is gold.
Easily the best Cultural Attaché this nation has ever had.
I hope Jackie was awarded an Order for her true Aussie performance here.
It's so good to see this master of Australian humour in full flight. Barry has been my absolute favourite since High School days in the 60s.
Yes Barry McKenzie was a crack up, I never liked fosters though, I proberly only drank four or five cartons of it
Loved his Barry MacKenzie strip in Private Eyeb.
The sad part is 'Les' would cancelled 5 minutes into this today. RIP big fellah..
Why do you say that?
@@Tourist1967 Basically the first thing he did was lurch all over and attractive female guest then arrange a huge phallus to point in her direction. Followed by racially stereotyping Asians. Need I go on?
What a legend Barry Humphries, RIP.
Rest in peace Barry Humphries, a great comic legend ❤.
i don't think i've ever seen barry jones enjoy himself so much . he's really entering in . great to see
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.
The millennials will be having hissy fits over this. Fabulous stuff.
Will they? How do you know that?
Rest in Peace our most beautiful Australian legend. How lucky to have had you for this long. God bless I love you Sir Les you always nailed it xxoo
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,...
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!
I don't remember another celebrity taking over and owning almost every interview they are Involved in . Barry is unmatched , a true comedian.
Absolute class what a guy how he acts drunk he does it to perfection brilliant rip Barry humphries u are a true legend d never to be forgotten
A era when we could actually laugh & nobody took offence !
Now there’s a focus group deciding if we can laugh…….or not.
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...)
@@GlennDavey And, "Wogs Out Of Work". TRUE
Glenn Davey. And, love his 'Al Grasby' Wide, Striped tie. remember, Al Grasby, Italiano, Fed, labor minister.
@@MMM-dq9jj14up “a new colorful Australia”, "the colonial necktie"
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!
He is hilarious. I've watched this interview several times. It never gets old.
'ratbags, poofs and crashing bores'.. he'd be cancelled today.
Never
Spot on. It’s comedy genius.
had three wonderful years among the aussies, lived at Bondi Beach and loved every minute among them
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.
Your better off across the pond. England is going down the pan.
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.
@@izifaddag8221 Thanks. You've certainly seen quite a bit of the planet. I feel depressingly unadventurous by comparison.
Im 48 and i feel so sad to see Barry go even at 91....what a bloody legend...😄😢
All four still with us; Jackie the youngest at 75 and Barry Jones the oldest at 90.
As a Pom, I don't know why the fella at the end is?
@@nottmjas yeah ,I’m not to sure either and I’m talking from down here 🇦🇺maybe some old political has been I think?
@@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. 🇦🇺
@@victorcelna3028 Thanks for that. A very fascinating individual.
Not anymore... Bye Les..
RIP Dr. Sir Les Patterson--you ripped our sides apart with your talent using the best medicine ever--laughter :-)
R,I.P. Barry Humphries, you were a true genius of great comedy and will be sorely missed. Go and entertain them in heaven now Sir Les.
He was one of the funniest man they ever was. I could watch his and his characters all day
When you see Barry Humphries in character you forget what an intelligent and erudite man he was, I loved the grotesque Sir Les RIP Bazza
Apparently the Australian government completely lost their 💩 at his depiction of politicians, questions were raised in their parliament.
Sir Les was always in control of the whole set. Bloody marvellous 👏
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.
That’s his art & that is what he does & he is the best at it .
Doesn't drop it for a second. While others are bent over roaring with laughter. No-one does it better than Barry...
It had me laugh out loud, ALONE
RIP Sir Barry
Very funny man with Les Patterson and Dame Edna
Many years of laughter
From New Zealand ❤
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.
I trust you didn't wash afterwards, Sir Les' spittal is like holy water, yer a lucky beggar.
so believable in every character he played. an amazing, no bars held, comedian. RIP legend
Are you with me? No worries. Brilliant comedian who was unique and will never be bettered.
Forgotten what belly laughs were. Got 'em back when I watched this. Brilliant!
Little did we know he represents the reality in the Australian political establishment. Although, he’s obviously one of the few good ones.
Bob Hawke was great, but he was like the most clean-cut and successful of this kind of male in the mid-to-late 20th century
@@GlennDavey are you joking...
@@lifelongbachelor3651 he was prime minister, what have you done with your life?
@@GlennDavey he was also a drunk and a pants man, who cheated on his wife.
@@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
Never seen or heard of Barry Humphries before this vid!
BRILLIANT!
I'm watching more!
The Dame Edna is waiting for ya.
Absolutely halarious, and good comedy can watched over and over again 😆😂🤣😂🇳🇿 RIP BAZZA.
Can you imagine this live in 2022 ...😮
Barry Humphries a real comic genius, so funny. 😂
Absolute genius.
RIP Barry Humphries. Absolutely hilarious.
What a talent Barrie Humphreys is such brilliant wit.
Sir Les RIP. Having being born in the early 60's I clearly remember people lighting up pipes and cigarettes and cigars everywhere on Tv...live shows like this no exeption. Seeing it now in 2024 makes me feel 160, not 60.
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
Love oh Barry we love and miss your extraordinary talent never to be replicated!!!
RIP SIr Les, truly one of our greatest politicians.
Rest in peace, don't make them like that anymore, an amazing actor and comedian.
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..
that's a breath of fresh air
Loved the poem.
The excellence in comedy by the genius of Mr Barry Humphries. RIP
Absolutely brilliant, always a great down to earth laugh, long may it continue.
So good to see , haven’t seen much of this great man for sometime now ,what a class act is Barry 👍🇦🇺🤣
Saw him live one time. Hysterical show.
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.
Cool name, ya got a twin down under.
@@pearl-pf6xz My son lives in Au. with my two grandchildren above Sydney so I have a link by proxy?
God I love that man - a gem in a world of political correctness gone mad! Simply hysterical and how we will miss him ❤️🇬🇧
RIP you absolute fucken legend
Comedian Genius RIP Barry from Ireland
Much loved here in England too. RIP Barry. One of the greats 👏
I do like Barry (Jones) playing along with the gig. He's both a serious (and well-read) bloke with an acute sense of humour.
Love it. RIP Sir Les/Barry Humphries.
Les a true Australia icon.
Yes.
"Whether you be Hun, Nip, or Darkie, raise your glass of lager, rum, or saki and drink to my old cobba, dear old Parkie." - Sir Les Patterson (Barry Humphries)
Wow, this won't age well.
How long will it be before this is canceled?
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 remember watching this when I was a kid. It felt even funnier back then.
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
God bless you Barry Humphries - You was a one in a million and will sorely missed!! - Good on ya cobba! :-( xxx
This character has and will always make me bloody laugh!
Dear old Parky can't even stop laughing during the introduction!
I love him, but as a pom in Australia, there are plenty here who would rather he wasn't so popular. A very talented man
@@samsearle4433 My ex girlfriend an Aussie hated him. I think she hated the idea that this represented an Aussie. I am an Aussie citizen so I am familiar with Aus humour. I think he is very funny. Not as keen on the Dame edna character but still its funny.
@@messenger8279 both are great!!
Ive Only watched these characters the last two years, hilarious!
@@messenger8279 in real life he was a conservative voter and he loved to make fun of corrupt politicians so we get Sir Les
@@messenger8279 I'm a Brit and can tell you that Barry Humphries was absolutely loved over here. And most of us hope that the true Aussie is just as he portrayed - funny and politically incorrect. Just as the rest of the world should be.
Can't believe I missed his prop , unless it's the real thing of course , as he adjusts himself when he first sits down ,the first time I watched this,,,hilarious,,,
Indeed...popup satire, you might say.
I missed it as well on the first watch lol
I missed it as well on the first watch lol
I missed it as well on the first watch lol
That's what they were laughing at
RIP Barry...You will be missed
* A one off comic genius
R.I.P . .. not a sad day today cos I can't stop laughing at these uploads. .. Genius 👏 👏 👏
God bless Australia.
Australia is dead. What is Australia? It’s lost it’s identity, no one holds it values anymore and that’s targeted at locals and migrants.
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.
Just his best character, utterly hilarious
RIP Barry you were a true legend🙏🙏🙏
Rest in peace you funny funny man. heaven will be in stitches tonight
sheer genius RIP Barry
Television was just fantastic then . Nothing fake . What a performance from Barry Humphreys