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Let's Honour the Great Barry Humphries & Cheer ourselves up.

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SirTarquin · 22/04/2023 17:15

Really saddened to hear of the death of Barry Humphries and the wonderful Dame Edna Everage. A loss to us all.

Please do post links of your favorite BH/Dame Edna moments in celebration.

I've always loved this clip because of how Martin Sheen being interviewed just cracks up himself.

https://twitter.com/TSting18/status/1648771457990684674

https://twitter.com/TSting18/status/1648771457990684674

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KnickerlessParsons · 22/04/2023 17:36

Couldn't stand the man. Don't like anyone who parodies women.

Maireas · 22/04/2023 17:39

He was a racist arse to me and my husband. We were in the audience of one of his shows, and he thought it would be amusing to make jokes about us that would have been embarrassing in the 1970s. Prize shit.

Costacoffeeplease · 22/04/2023 17:40

I didn’t find him particularly funny, especially as Les Patterson, and not a drag fan either

RuthTopp · 22/04/2023 17:44

I'm sorry to hear he has died for his loved ones but didn't watch him or enjoy the ' humour '

bellac11 · 22/04/2023 17:46

Everything he did was absolutely dry and satirical. Fantastic

Random789 · 22/04/2023 17:54

I loved him. Didn't like Sir Les, because he was too disgusting. But Edna was great. Didn't seem like a drag act to me because it wasn't a sexualised parody. Seemed as much about class as sex. Will miss him. Lovely man.

bellac11 · 22/04/2023 19:09

Dame Edna/Les was a classic satirical swipe at the class system in Australia. The one they all pretend not to have. It wasnt a parody of women in the case of Dame Edna, it was a reflection of the things that the upper classes in Australia think about and do.

bellac11 · 22/04/2023 19:09

bellac11 · 22/04/2023 19:09

Dame Edna/Les was a classic satirical swipe at the class system in Australia. The one they all pretend not to have. It wasnt a parody of women in the case of Dame Edna, it was a reflection of the things that the upper classes in Australia think about and do.

I should have said the middle classes, the pretendy above themselves classes.

KnickerlessParsons · 22/04/2023 19:49

bellac11 · 22/04/2023 19:09

Dame Edna/Les was a classic satirical swipe at the class system in Australia. The one they all pretend not to have. It wasnt a parody of women in the case of Dame Edna, it was a reflection of the things that the upper classes in Australia think about and do.

Of course it was a parody!

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SirTarquin · 22/04/2023 20:45

@FisherthemsFriend - I love that. He is just so flawlessly deadpan that you almost believe he's serious.

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