Barry Humphries

Offset

Wonderful comedian.  I saw him in London in the late 1980s - managed to be unbelievably rude without offending anyone.  One of the funniest people ever.  Les Patterson was a creation of genius.

RIP.

DrCornelius

Great innings but still a shame we’ve lost him . Very clever guy - you summed it up in that he was very rude without getting nasty or personal with it 

Tannin

A very funny man. RIP.

Tannin

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-22/barry-humphries-comedian-behind-dame-edna-everage-dies/6962192

guitartango

Les Patterson Saves the World ! RIP

DiscoStu

A comedy giant. RIP 

Offset

Sir Les's book 'The Traveller's Tool' is absolutely side-splitting but utterly politically incorrect.  And all the funnier for being so.

EricTheWeary

Strangely enough I was watching the Andertons interview with Geoff Whitehorn yesterday and Geoff was talking about playing guitar on a Dame Edna party album and what a lovely guy Barry was. 

Barry/Edna/Les huge figures in comedy for a long time, always on the edge of chaos and the Dame Edna character was brilliant for pricking pomposity. 

RIP. 

Kittyfrisk

Genuinely a giant of comedy. Witty, thoughtful, sharp, barbed, subtly offensively hilarious but without actually causing genuine offence.
RIP Barry, you genius. You'll be missed.

CoffeeAndTV

RIP Barry.  He was so funny.

Kilgore

A truly great comedian. As others have said shockingly rude without being nasty. RIP.

Dominic

Hello Possums

LastMantra

Harry Bumphries

I would have sworn he had already passed away. I feel I even remember people talking about it.

Anyway, RIP. 

boogieman

Aww jeez, I saw a thing on social media earlier that said he was poorly but still with us, I hadn’t realised he’d actually passed on. 

Wonderfully funny bloke, in all his various guises. RIP possum. 

bertie

one word

genius


RIP

scrumhalf

One of the funniest people in the history of the world.

"when I first had hair I could sit on" still makes me laugh. 

exocet

What a great innings he had. Looking back at my childhood "Dame Edna" was on UK TV in the 70s. I was too young to get the humour then. I then remember Sir Les appearing on "The Tube" with "12 inches of Les" . Barry Humphries would have been in his 50's then..such a cultured clever person that defied the personas played. 

axisus

He was amazing at conjuring entertainment out of nothing, so quick witted and intelligent. One of those giants of comedy the like of which we don’t see any more. 

roberty

bertie said:

one word

genius


RIP

Agreed

Here is is more recently, sharp as a tack

https://youtu.be/j05aITNM4qo

RIP old fella

rlw

I shall never forget Dame Edna saying to oh so posh Joan Bakewell - maybe on Parkinson, maybe not - that she looked as if she needed something warm inside her.    Cue the show falling apart.

boogieman

Some of my favourites from BH in various guises. 

“He was a really generous bloke. He’d give you his arsehole and shit through his ribs”

As Dame Edna, to Jayne Seymour
”ah dear Jayne, you’re so lovely. Tell us the secret of a successful marriage darling. After all you’ve been successfully married 4 times”. 

And as Edna to Jilly Goulden, the wine expert. 

“I don’t understand much about the etiquette of wine tasting. So tell us Jilly, do you spit or swallow?”