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Speaker 1: And Amanda Jamnason. Nine.

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Speaker 2: Veteran entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins has been announced to host

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Speaker 2: the public memorial for Barry Hump.

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Speaker 1: Barry died in April, but the memorial itself is going

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Speaker 1: to happen at the Sydney Opera House in mid December.

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Speaker 2: Talk about milk it a bit, we'll talk.

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Speaker 1: About why did we have it earlier?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Why did we have it earlier? Was it COVID? No?

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Speaker 2: I wasn't COVID this year, wasn't. Everything just seems to blow.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it takes a while to arrange something.

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Speaker 2: But a lot of people are up in arms. One person,

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Speaker 2: one of Barry's powers apparently, has said family and friends

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Speaker 2: are aghast and they won't be going along to see the.

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Speaker 1: Thing because of Richard.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's outrageous. If I was to die, I would

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Speaker 2: love Richard Wilkins doing the whole MC.

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Speaker 1: He's the gone who knows what the story behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes is about. But this person has said that they

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Speaker 1: want they didn't really have enough of gravitas. The quote was, sure,

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Speaker 1: he's a nice bloke, but he seems to have no

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Speaker 1: gravitars and little, if any sense of humor.

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Speaker 2: I texted Richard last night. I was outraged. I said, mate,

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Speaker 2: you have gravitas, the biggest gravitas in the business.

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Speaker 1: So the quote was, he seems to have no gravitas

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Speaker 1: or sense of humor, and you said you've got gravitars.

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Speaker 1: You'll be so.

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Speaker 2: Flattered with him. He said, thank you, bro, and he

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Speaker 2: has got we does.

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Speaker 1: We are big fans of Richard obviously, so who knows

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Speaker 1: what's gone on behind the scenes here. I think his

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Speaker 1: Humphrey's widow has arranged for these arrangements, and some of

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Speaker 1: his children or other people on the inside would have

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Speaker 1: made different arrangements, and I think therefore that seems to

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Speaker 1: be what the problem is. His daughter said she won't go.

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Speaker 1: I think she was estranged from him for a couple

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Speaker 1: of years but was close again at the end. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure what's gone on, but this is interesting too

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Speaker 1: because he grew up in Melbourne or the Mooney Ponds thing,

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Speaker 1: and he grew up in Melbourne. But the family has

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Speaker 1: said that they didn't want this state funeral to be

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Speaker 1: held in Melbourne. It's under Humphreys and the family were

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Speaker 1: left unimpressed by the state government not intervening. When Barry

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Speaker 1: Humphrey's name was stripped from the Melbourne International Comedy Sess

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Speaker 1: they had the Barrier Award and in twenty nineteen there

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Speaker 1: was some controversy around Barry about his transgender remarks. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure, but a variety of comedians, younger comedians said,

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Speaker 1: look his old school and he's not you know, he's

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Speaker 1: offended a whole gaggle of people who mattered to us.

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Speaker 1: And so they took his name off the Barry Award.

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Speaker 1: And then, of course when he passed away, a giant

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Speaker 1: outpouring of love for an entire work of Barry's life.

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Speaker 1: And so I think the family felt that Melbourne didn't

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Speaker 1: come to his aid during the controversy.

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Speaker 2: What did they call the Barrier Award when they took

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Speaker 2: the barrier out of it?

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Speaker 1: Just the award Barry Free Zone. I think it was

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Speaker 1: just called what was it? The award? Was it right?

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Speaker 1: The Melbourne Comedy Festival Award.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a lot of printing on the trophy.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting though that other people have come to obviously

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Speaker 1: to the defense of Richard Wilkins, like me, you and

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Speaker 1: Australian TV producer who Mark Lewellan, who said Humphreys would

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Speaker 1: have abhorred these snobs. I once went to a party

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Speaker 1: at Richard's place where Barry Humphreys was one of the guests.

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Speaker 1: Lovely man and clearly happy in the company of a mate.

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Speaker 1: He said, shove the Gladiola up there, boycotting Bottom exactly.

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Speaker 2: Richard's got the biggest gravitars in the business.

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Speaker 1: No humor. According to Vandam Jones, I'm going to.

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Speaker 2: Write the whole thing to him. It's a Sunday, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know like Bombard, Poor Richard, he'd be sitting

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Speaker 2: there with his face mask on, ready to have a sleep.

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Speaker 2: I didn't want to, you know, Bombard. It