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Speaker 1: Look, I think we all knew that at some stage

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Speaker 1: on the weekend we were going to see the headline

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Speaker 1: that Barry Humphries had died.

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Speaker 2: And it was still just as sad, though it wasn't

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Speaker 2: had it come out of the blow.

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Speaker 3: Always a shock when you actually hear the news is

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Speaker 3: when it's confirmed.

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Speaker 1: Horrible, but gosh Barry Humphreys. In a seven decade career

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Speaker 1: spanning theater, television, books and film, Humphreys was famed for

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Speaker 1: his absurdest, discomforting and transgressive humor, poking fun at Australian

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Speaker 1: culture with his cast of personas, some of which would

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Speaker 1: rank among the best loved comedic creations of all time.

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Speaker 1: Dame Edna Everidge, the gaudy housewife from Mooney Ponds, Sir

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Speaker 1: Les Patterson, the vulgar and boozy Australian cultural attache, the

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Speaker 1: fundamentally decent and senile Sandystone Sandystone always made me cry,

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Speaker 1: and of course the archetype or Ossie Bloke, Barry Mackenzie.

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Speaker 2: There is so much to miss.

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Speaker 4: I had, in a sense been discovered first by Rupert Murdoch.

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Speaker 4: Some friends of mine in Melbourne had sent my photograph

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Speaker 4: to the Morning Murdoch and they were appealing for the

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Speaker 4: lovelyest mother in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Well, the cut.

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Speaker 5: Along story short I won from the whole of Australia.

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Speaker 5: Ednery really only happened in nineteen fifty five.

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Speaker 2: Excuse I.

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Speaker 5: Big advertisements appeared in the morning Murdoch begging housewives to

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Speaker 5: consider you know Latvian shot putters and Celanese fast bowlers.

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Speaker 5: Ray Lawler, who is the director of the company, said

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Speaker 5: to me, look, write something about the Olympic Games. And

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Speaker 5: so I said, well, I'll write them about a Melbourne

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Speaker 5: housewife offering her beautiful home.

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Speaker 4: I was called by a person, Carberry emphis Is. He

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Speaker 4: had made some television appearances in the very early days

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Speaker 4: of Australia in television, and he was doing a show,

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Speaker 4: a comedy show, and he wanted to impersonate and take

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Speaker 4: the mickey out of Melbourne Housewives, which is.

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Speaker 5: Typical of him. And when I finished it, Laula said,

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Speaker 5: why don't you play the part? I said, no, it's

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Speaker 5: written for Zoe Caudell. He said, I think when you've

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Speaker 5: been reading it to me, it's funnier if you do it.

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Speaker 5: I ended up by appearing on the stage instead of Barry,

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Speaker 5: the director assisted on it and his nose has been

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Speaker 5: out of joint over that for years.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the words so much to mess. It's just

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Speaker 3: a little bit of a story.

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Speaker 1: There was a Barry described Everage and Patterson in particular

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Speaker 1: as wonderful outlets. He said, I'm very careful myself about

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Speaker 1: what I might say Edna and Sir Les, on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, can point to the nudity of the emperor. Ah.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he had away with words, didn't he?

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Speaker 3: Smith me?

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Speaker 1: And you know, as was mentioned that he just had

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Speaker 1: such a grasp on Australianism. I mean, he's remember going

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Speaker 1: to see one show, so many shows at the Regal

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Speaker 1: Theater and he was talking about talking about people with

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Speaker 1: the chuck cloth in the shape of being ben over the.

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Speaker 2: Tap. Just little things that we do that he just got.

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Speaker 1: Had the great fortune of interviewing Barry many times over

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Speaker 1: the years. This job, you know, very privileged, that very privileged.

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Speaker 1: And there's nothing funnier than being in a studio with

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Speaker 1: Barry dressed as Barry. And he was also the ultimate

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Speaker 1: you know there's been he'd come in a long cape

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Speaker 1: and a hat and there he dressed as Barry. But

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Speaker 1: doing Dave Medner and he would always close his eyes

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Speaker 1: if he was.

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Speaker 2: Doing day Medner, and he wasn't in the day Medna Garb.

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Speaker 3: That is magnificent. You say lucky, the lucky is the word,

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Speaker 3: because I remember one of the final two is being

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Speaker 3: able to. I was the one who drew the lucky

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Speaker 3: store of our team three where I got to speak

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Speaker 3: to day Minna for twenty minutes. Yeah, I'm sure it

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Speaker 3: was the old brewery building by the river. Yes, and

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Speaker 3: Dame Edna that day was fun and flirty. I was

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Speaker 3: very flirty there always, and you wouldn't dare to ask

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Speaker 3: a stupid question unless you were unless you were coming

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Speaker 3: from a fun angle, because.

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Speaker 2: You would get ripped. Oh totally, well and truly.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem with interviewing someone so intelligent intelligent. I

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Speaker 1: think my favorite part of the show was always the

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Speaker 1: signature ending when Dame Edna would come out and it

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Speaker 1: was Glady all the time.

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Speaker 2: It's Glady, and I caught well, of course you did.

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Speaker 2: I kept it for alive for as long as I could,

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Speaker 2: that Gladdy.

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Speaker 1: But you should completely go the people in the front

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Speaker 1: couple of rows, of course, and refer to their greedy

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Speaker 1: Gladdy grabbing actually.

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Speaker 3: Dangerous place to sit with the brilliant comedians.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, first three rows no. A statement from

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Speaker 1: Barry's family on the weekend read he was completely himself

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Speaker 1: until the very end, never losing his brilliant mind, his

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Speaker 1: unique wit and generosity of spirit. With over seventy years

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Speaker 1: on the stage, he was an entertainer to his core,

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Speaker 1: touring up until the last year of his life and

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Speaker 1: planning more shows that will sadly never be a King Charles.

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Speaker 1: We can call him King Charles. The coign Nations just

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Speaker 1: around the corner. He phoned the hospital last week to

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Speaker 1: check how Barry was. The Royal family loved everything Barry,

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Speaker 1: but particularly day matter.

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Speaker 3: And let's be honest, the Queen would not have had

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Speaker 3: anyone at a Royal Variety performance if she didn't was

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Speaker 3: incredibly fond of them. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: Well, Barry Humphrees, we will miss you, but thank you

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Speaker 1: for just the glorious, glorious memories.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely good night,