I'm the same, if I need a really good laugh, just look up Barry

Just laughed so hard!! Loved sir les!

@@copferthat I met him once, very briefly. We just said hello on the street while passing. We lived in the same suburb in Melbourne. I wish now, that i shook his hand & thanked him for his contribution for taking Australia to the world on the comedy stage.

@@Dave.C937 I know one thing Greg, we'll never see his likes again. I've watched everything he's done twenty times over and never tire of his brilliant creations. It's his ad libbing that truly made him so special.

A F! LEGEND ... I show Sir Les to my uni students all the time (PROPER education)! 👍🏻

It would not be taken in any other spirit nowadays but to try to cancel him. Shocking times we live in now.

She had no authority.

Cancel culture does take away the lessons we need in order to learn how to intend a better future. Barry Humphries, as far as public performances go, was ahead of his time in presenting comedy that was instructive in highlighting how oppressive those in power, on whatever level, could be toward those more vulnerable. It could just be on the level of a boss to an employee or an employee to a more vulnerable co worker. He gave a taste to everyone on all levels, of how tprivilege can be used to cause abuse and suffering. What follows in time, is normal people, as in this audience groaning and enjoying cringe laughing at his example of portraying what is now considered base behaviour. When Barry Humpries first started out with his characters he copped a lot of flack along the lines of " Nothing wrong with our behaviour, it's normal leave us alone." orelse " There is some bad behaviour like this in existence in some parts but don't show us up by pointing it out.".......and not just in Australia but the wider world also. Now look how far the world has moved forward in considering everyone's equal rights to freely realise their potential and contribute their talents and skills. Still a long way to go though. Still a lot more to do in remembering past champions for their good contributions, but also a need for reading the footnotes that need to be added about their detrimental mistakes as well, for making sure we don't repeat those into the future. I love Barry Humphrie's character of Sandy Stone that gentlemanly, wise old shining light of wisdom and wonder why, though I have regularly searched in the past, I cannot find a scrap of him on you tube. I would appreciate somebody pointing to where I might find Sandy if they know of a site.

I miss those days man. No one offended apart from when it was intended

@@summerrr1 Don't know if you noticed, but Jackie was laughing her arse off. She got the joke. Did you?

Yes.

Dear Garry is greatly missed. Dear one.❤

❤ indeed

11:33 "I'm chairman of the Australian Cheese Board..." Moments you can never forget.

Hilarious

No mean feat to contain himself As barry did his act Its a masterclass in comedy watching him

Absolutely

We lose him when we need him the most..

How can I cringe and feel sick when he dribbles and laugh and adore him at the same time- genius.

NOT gonna disagree

He will be missed...

@@zakofrx I actually preferred Sir Les to Dame Edna....... Funniest crack a rib laughing shit..... We Down Under HAVE and had pollies not at ALL dissimilar.....😉🤣

She had a good tutorial as the female lead in The Coming Of Stork.

Loved his Barry MacKenzie strip in Private Eyeb.

Gorgeous.

Yes Carmel. It’s a shame Hanna gadsby didn’t learn from him

@@patkelly6349 Don’t mention that hack and Barry in the same conversation !!

@@Lunchladydoyle agree

I like a kangaroo most weeks. Puts a spring in your step. Stay Free

austrailian culture is an oxymoron

Minister for the "Yarts"...😂

@@recoswell Do you not understand 'taking the piss'?

'ratbags, poofs and crashing bores'.. he'd be cancelled today.

Never

Spot on. It’s comedy genius.

Will they? How do you know that?

Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face,...

Your better off across the pond. England is going down the pan.

Moving from south eastern England to Mississippi must have been quite a culture shock? As a Mancunian, going on a road trip through northern Florida, Georgia and Alabama for a fortnight in the early 2000's was quite an eye opener. But I couldn't imagine moving there permanently.

@@OldhamSteve52 Dead right mate. There isn't a day goes by that I don't bless the day I climbed aboard a Peoples Express jet at Heathrow in 1984. What an ironic year I picked. Orwell's fever dream has come 100% true in modern Britain.

@@grizcuz Let me explain. I didn't move from England to Mississippi. I didn't know where I was going. For the first year and a half I wandered from Toronto to Guatemala. I lived in Miami for decades. I also ran a one man trucking business for 11 years and lived in the truck. From 2007 to 2019 I lived wherever the truck was parked. I have been all around the world and all of North America has been my backyard. I know it all extremely well. I have lived in Maine, Texas, Mexico and Winnipeg too. I even spent over a year in Thailand. I was teaching in Malaysia. The main takeaway is that I am super glad I left England. A horrible place in 1984 with no opportunity and a life of drudgery. Thank god I left.

@@izifaddag8221 Thanks. You've certainly seen quite a bit of the planet. I feel depressingly unadventurous by comparison.

Now there’s a focus group deciding if we can laugh…….or not.

Well cobbers I beg to agree and disagree in a way, this is smart satire, and he's clearly taking the mickey out of a certain red-faced alcoholic type that existed in our times as we know. A certain kind of bloviated lecherous chauvinist type that was incredibly racist and colonialist and all the rest, and in 1981 we all knew what that was, and that it was funny because it was bloody gross. Hilarious send-up that would totally play today, if Australia had any decent entertainment industry left! (That's the real problem if you ask me, remember Hey Dad and Acropolis Now!? We used to have sitcoms for crying out loud...)

@@GlennDavey And, "Wogs Out Of Work". TRUE

Glenn Davey. And, love his 'Al Grasby' Wide, Striped tie. remember, Al Grasby, Italiano, Fed, labor minister.

@@MMM-dq9jj14up “a new colorful Australia”, "the colonial necktie"

I trust you didn't wash afterwards, Sir Les' spittal is like holy water, yer a lucky beggar.

As a Pom, I don't know why the fella at the end is?

@@nottmjas yeah ,I’m not to sure either and I’m talking from down here 🇦🇺maybe some old political has been I think?

@@nottmjas Look up Barry Jones (Australian politician), Sir Les called him Bazza, and read about him. One very clever man. Let me just say he was undefeated in quiz show competition. He only finished because he won the prize at the end. I'm not sure how many others actually won it, before they were knocked off by others. Couldn't have been many. 🇦🇺

@@victorcelna3028 Thanks for that. A very fascinating individual.

Not anymore... Bye Les..

Bob Hawke was great, but he was like the most clean-cut and successful of this kind of male in the mid-to-late 20th century

@@GlennDavey are you joking...

@@lifelongbachelor3651 he was prime minister, what have you done with your life?

@@GlennDavey he was also a drunk and a pants man, who cheated on his wife.

@@lifelongbachelor3651 right, and STILL the most clean-cut and successful of THIS kind of man (Les Patersons of the world). What part of my comment is wrong? And turn your brain on before you reply… I’m actually insulting Bob Hawke, dummy

The Dame Edna is waiting for ya.

That’s his art & that is what he does & he is the best at it .

Doesn't drop it for a second. While others are bent over roaring with laughter. No-one does it better than Barry...

It had me laugh out loud, ALONE

Cool name, ya got a twin down under.

@@pearl-pf6xz My son lives in Au. with my two grandchildren above Sydney so I have a link by proxy?

Why do you say that?

@@Tourist1967 Basically the first thing he did was lurch all over and attractive female guest then arrange a huge phallus to point in her direction. Followed by racially stereotyping Asians. Need I go on?

Loved the poem.

Indeed...popup satire, you might say.

I missed it as well on the first watch lol

I missed it as well on the first watch lol

I missed it as well on the first watch lol

That's what they were laughing at

@@samsearle4433 My ex girlfriend an Aussie hated him. I think she hated the idea that this represented an Aussie. I am an Aussie citizen so I am familiar with Aus humour. I think he is very funny. Not as keen on the Dame edna character but still its funny.

@@messenger8279 both are great!! Ive Only watched these characters the last two years, hilarious!

​@@messenger8279 in real life he was a conservative voter and he loved to make fun of corrupt politicians so we get Sir Les

​@@messenger8279 I'm a Brit and can tell you that Barry Humphries was absolutely loved over here. And most of us hope that the true Aussie is just as he portrayed - funny and politically incorrect. Just as the rest of the world should be.

Yes.