RIP 2023
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Novelist Anne Perry - also known as Juliet Hulme of Heavenly Creatures fame - dies aged 83.
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Mary Quant. Deserves kudos for the miniskirt. Icon of 60s fashion from both clothing and hairstyles.
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Barry Humphries. Comedy & Satire Great who seems to have been with us forever.
Australian comedy great Barry Humphries dies in hospital aged 89
Barry Humphries, the man responsible for some of Australia’s most loved characters, has exited stage left for the last time.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RIP 2023:
Barry Humphries. Comedy & Satire Great wh seems to have been with us forever.
Barry Humphries, the man responsible for some of Australia’s most loved characters, has exited stage left for the last time.
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
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@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry
For a while he was huge. He entered popular culture, even saw him on Austin Powers making fun of himself
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@MiketheSnow said in RIP 2023:
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry
RIP Jerry. Your crappy show was absolutely compulsive viewing during my days of
unemploymentbeing a student.
