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Post by metro1962 on Apr 22, 2023 11:29:48 GMT
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Post by Arch Stanton on Apr 22, 2023 12:54:49 GMT
That sucks!
He was really good fun. It’s only in the last year or so I was appraising his Barry Mckenzie films.
Some of his Dame Edna stuff wasn’t for me and his Les Paterson film and stand up stuff was a bit naff and crude at times but still amusing.
RIP Possum.
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Post by ontheslate on Apr 22, 2023 13:11:58 GMT
Watched his work as Barry McKenzie long after it was originally made but really enjoyed it, Dame Edna seemed to be a feature on ITV when I was younger didn’t appreciate it at the time but as an adult could see the genius of the character.
RIP
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Post by spacecadet on Apr 22, 2023 13:54:50 GMT
I always enjoyed his appearances as the Australian Cultural Attache. RIP Barry (and Les and Edna).
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Post by joshmel on Apr 22, 2023 20:26:05 GMT
RIP
Honourable mention of his name in The Beloved song Hello from the early 90s. That is where I heard of him first was not in the generation who knew of him prior to that.
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Post by AlanH on Apr 22, 2023 22:43:02 GMT
One of an increasingly diminishing old guard of British comedy (I say that knowing full well he was Australian, of course!). Dame Edna I think I appreciated more in later years, but Barry Humprhies was part of that generation of comedians who came in on the crest of the Beyond the Fringe wave. The world was a better place with Barry in it. RIP, Barry. Good on ya, sport!  |
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Post by jno on Apr 23, 2023 4:39:34 GMT
Very funny and was in Saturday nights when I was a kid. Good night Possums!
RIP
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Post by yoyopickles on Apr 24, 2023 6:54:48 GMT
When I was a kid, I really thought Dame Edna was a woman! I remember my uncle Arthur taking me to Madame Tussauds and seeing a wax work of Dame Edna R.I.P
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Post by gustav on Apr 24, 2023 15:50:34 GMT
I saw him live once as Dame Edna at an event. Incredibly funny. So quick witted, a brilliant comedian and satirist.
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Post by ltd on May 6, 2023 20:45:55 GMT
I saw him live once as Dame Edna at an event. Incredibly funny. So quick witted, a brilliant comedian and satirist. I was reading an excerpt from a Dame Edna interview he did with a pre-Downing Street Boris Johnson and it was absolutely bang on - he had the bloke measured up to a T. |
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