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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation seems the whole world is morning.

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Speaker 2: The loss of the great Australian Barry Humphreys aka Da Medna,

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Speaker 2: aka Sandy Stone aka Les Patterson. He was an extraordinary

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Speaker 2: performer and such an erudite, smart man and a charming,

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Speaker 2: charming man, but particularly with Edna. When Edna first started,

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Speaker 2: she was holding up a mirror to our suburban small mindedness.

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Speaker 2: And so it was sort of a very a satirist

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Speaker 2: who then became a megastar in her own right.

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Speaker 3: Really yeah, yeah, And the reviews that he used to

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Speaker 3: do at when he was in law school all those

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Speaker 3: years ago, they didn't they didn't use him much. And

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Speaker 3: then it wasn't until Edna came out as this sort

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Speaker 3: of small character, and then that went on to the

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Speaker 3: movie Barry Mackenzie.

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Speaker 2: So Edna first appeared on screen in a Barry mackenzie film,

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Speaker 2: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: That's pretty much it? Yeah, in a movie, And the

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Speaker 3: movie was made. I think they spent it was like

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Speaker 3: two hundred thousand.

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Speaker 4: Dollars Adventures of Barry McKennon.

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Speaker 3: And then it ended up making a million dollars and

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden it became this It became this

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Speaker 3: hit and also featured Barry Mackenzie just drinking Foster's Lager

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Speaker 3: all the time, and Dame Ednan was interviewed about it.

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Speaker 1: Why does the film have a fetish about Foster's Lager.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's because it's the Australia's national drink

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Speaker 5: and it caught on in a way and it's become

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Speaker 5: a very popular drink. You see it in most of

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Speaker 5: the shops. Now, don't you Are there.

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Speaker 1: Any sort of commercial Undertaoners No.

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Speaker 5: In fact, Foster's Laga didn't provide any money whatsoever for

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Speaker 5: the making of the film. That many people have thought

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Speaker 5: that the film looked like a two hour commercial. In

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Speaker 5: fact it isn't.

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Speaker 4: That's before the ego went crazy.

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Speaker 2: But she Edna was such a fabulous guest on so

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Speaker 2: many fabulous shows.

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Speaker 4: It's he's just a couple of them. Here is Dame

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Speaker 4: Medna everage with Michael Parkinson.

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, so less it's less luck And hello there,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen.

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Speaker 2: I must a handful of bust something.

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Speaker 5: Oh sorry, Mike, what is it?

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Speaker 1: I grew in my hands, I'm sure.

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Speaker 3: To you I was.

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Speaker 1: I was just giving myself a quick application before the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to use an applicator, but I generally go.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember the time Celes Patterson was on Alan

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Speaker 3: Jones's show. Remember we had that Alan Jones Live five

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Speaker 3: o'clock in the afternoon and it was wrapping up and

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Speaker 3: there's a bit where Alan was talking about the next

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Speaker 3: guests that come out, and Celestie's I've never heard of

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Speaker 3: any of these sea bomb and that went live to

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Speaker 3: wow and because he thought his mics were off.

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Speaker 4: But also pure Les Patterson, I know, I just just

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Speaker 4: the way he said.

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Speaker 3: I remember sitting at home just watching it.

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Speaker 4: Did he just let's just drop the sea would have

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Speaker 4: soiled himself? No one, no one complained, no one said anything.

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Speaker 3: It was the In the next day. I was looking

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Speaker 3: in the newspapers. No one mentioned anything.

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Speaker 2: Les Patterson was such a great creation as well, the

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Speaker 2: ghost diplomat who was always drunk, food on his.

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Speaker 3: Tie, and his thing was he'd always come in and

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Speaker 3: shake your hand and you have something on his hand,

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Speaker 3: something foul.

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Speaker 2: And he's the fabulous Graham Norton having a chat with

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Speaker 2: Dame Menna.

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Speaker 4: This is brilliant.

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Speaker 1: I had a school, a little drama school, at my

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Speaker 1: home when I was just a housewife, before megastardom smiled

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Speaker 1: on me. Yes, and it was called the Dead a

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Speaker 1: d It was the name Edna Academy of Drama. I

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Speaker 1: used to hear a little knock on the kitchen door,

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Speaker 1: and it was mister and missus Gibson a little mile

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Speaker 1: saying could I help him teach him some poems? And

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Speaker 1: and then of course mister and Missus Minogue brought little

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Speaker 1: Kylie along soon after she was born. I used maybe

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Speaker 1: little Kylie. As a matter of fact, I breastfed her once.

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Speaker 2: The royals always loved the Queen, The Queen Charles King

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Speaker 2: Charles huge fans.

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Speaker 4: Morgan talked about the royal family.

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Speaker 1: It's true, and actually Charles is a very charming, intelligent man.

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Speaker 1: When you and a very hard working man, don't you

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Speaker 1: run away with the idea of my little American possums.

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Speaker 1: That Prince Charles is idol. Whatever he's meant you, there's

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Speaker 1: always been a slightly mischievous clint.

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Speaker 3: In his eye.

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Speaker 5: Did you ever think things could have panned out differently?

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Speaker 1: I think he was attractive to me, and he likes

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Speaker 1: with your women. Look at Camilla and I. He likes

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Speaker 1: the older lady. He likes an old lady with plenty

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Speaker 1: of hair in the right places.

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Speaker 2: You may have seen a sketch that was part of

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Speaker 2: a Royal Command performance. This was being played over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: It's just so brilliant. So there's Camilla, there's Charles. I

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Speaker 2: keep going to say, in the Corporate Box hitting pies.

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Speaker 2: After there they are in the.

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Speaker 4: Royal Box with Maus.

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Speaker 2: And Brendan Jones drunk, and then day Medno is brought

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Speaker 2: in and then she sits down and says hello, and

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Speaker 2: then there's a tap on her shoulder and a page

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Speaker 2: gives her a piece of paper.

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Speaker 1: They've found me a better seat.

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Speaker 2: Up she gets and guys, but I've been part I

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Speaker 2: met Barry Humphreys the number of times, but the first

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Speaker 2: time I met him was at a royal wedding. It

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Speaker 2: was Fergie and Andrew's wedding. We had to mention Andrew

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Speaker 2: without being tased, of course, So Fergie and Andrew. Channel

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Speaker 2: nine was covering the wedding and I was working at

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Speaker 2: the Midday Show with when You're in the Boso a

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Speaker 2: research for the Midday Show with Ray Martin, but also

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Speaker 2: doing occasional stories. It was the most thrilling time. And

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Speaker 2: we were covering the royal wedding, so along the Royal

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say roots because I know that

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Speaker 2: you'll raise an eyebrow.

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Speaker 4: The Royal route. I knew you'd say it.

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Speaker 2: So we had a double decker bus where we were

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Speaker 2: broadcasting from and watching all the royal family and all

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Speaker 2: the dignitaries and all the guests make their way. I

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Speaker 2: think it was to the abbey. So I'm standing next

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Speaker 2: to Barry Humphreys. I watched him transform into Barry when

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Speaker 2: the week goes on into day Medna. So when the

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Speaker 2: wig goes on, he's Edna. And so I'm standing next

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Speaker 2: to day Medna and there's a carriage with Diana and Charles.

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Speaker 2: It comes up the road, up the road, and Diana

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Speaker 2: looks up seese Barry sees Edna squeals and waves, and

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Speaker 2: I thought, what a pinch me moment, and I what

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Speaker 2: a brilliant, brilliant time, And I just I mean, the

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Speaker 2: whole world, as I said, is morning.

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Speaker 4: The loss of Barry Humphrey