RIP 2023
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I’m not sure him and his partner were the absolute best ambassadors for how kiwis were in the 80s but I always felt immense pride that a couple of genuine NZers ( Boris Zhukov was actually American as was Kamala as two examples ) were part of the WWF as it was then.
Thanks for the memories, wrestling in those days absolutely rocked and he was a part of that. Outlived loads of his contemporaries too.
It also cracked me up that they wrestled like “heels” ( bad guys ) with lots of biting and stomping but the crowd still loved them.
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Yeah I always thought that was bullshit until I heard them speak. Being able to achieve what they did is pretty astonishing.
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Novelist Anne Perry - also known as Juliet Hulme of Heavenly Creatures fame - dies aged 83.
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Barry Humphries. Comedy & Satire Great who seems to have been with us forever.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2023:
Barry Humphries. Comedy & Satire Great wh seems to have been with us forever.
I read earlier in the week that he wasn't well. Bye Possums
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@Victor-Meldrew You beat me to it. Terrible news. One of the greatest comics of all-time.
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His Barry McKenzie comic strips in Private Eye were great. I never really knew whether his authentic Australian sayings were actually authentic. The two I can recall were “you don’t cry stinking fish in your own backyard “ and “don’t come the raw prawn with me mate”.
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@Catogrande said in RIP 2023:
His Barry McKenzie comic strips in Private Eye were great. I never really knew whether his authentic Australian sayings were actually authentic. The two I can recall were “you don’t cry stinking fish in your own backyard “ and “don’t come the raw prawn with me mate”.
I think not quite knowing was part of his genius.
He also "discovered" and helped John Clarke - an equally great comedian - when the latter had a small role in The Adventures of Barry McKenzie way back when. A generous spirit by all accounts.
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From the BBC obit:
Humphries created the character, Barry McKenzie, the boorish, sexist, arrogant Australian, who appeared in a comic strip he wrote for the magazine, Private Eye.
There was much criticism of this character in his home country of Australia which, for a time, banned the sale of a book of the strips. Humphries would receive similar criticism for his character of the lecherous, hard drinking Sir Les Patterson.
He was happy to return the compliment. "Australia is an outdoor country," he once said. "People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's a recent development."
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Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry