Barry Humphries as Sandy Stone

[@MM-yi9zn]

Are no words to justify his brilliance & unique genius. What an absolute treasure we enjoyed. Will miss forever.

[@JuliaL]

I grew up on Dame Edna and Les Patterson, but somehow I'd never heard of Sandy Stone until today. I was already crying after hearing the news, this made me worse. Just beautiful. Not sure why this is hitting me so hard, I suppose some people have always just been there my whole life, and you don't realise how much they impacted you until they're gone. RIP Barry.

[@lindsandkev]

Same here, Les was the best😄

[@CJ-ft9yo]

i love his monologues, just being introduced to Sandy Stone, very relaxing

[@tomtalker2000]

He's an absolute genius. And not just comedically speaking. But as a whole. Nobody else will ever come close to what he has achieved with all his characters.

[@johayes7529]

I've been to every gig Mr Humphries has preformed in Australia, since I was 19 years old. This is my all time favorite one. Especially when he dies, an ends up his chair in the local op shop. Then weirdly a young Italian couple buy it, & he ends up back in his old house..

[@noelhill9040]

There will never be characters of the same stature by the great Barry Humphrey. Fondly remember thanks for all the Laugh’s 😂😮😅💯💕

[@Ainzleeriddell]

This is pure genius

[@TheLongBlackCoat]

John Barry Humphries 17 February 1934 22 April 2023 Requiescat in Pace

[@markbull5281]

RIP….and thank you. Genius

[@llynfach]

Sandy is by far Humphries's cleverest creation.

[@DeadlyPants123]

Barry Humphries as Sandy Stone reminds me of my late great grandmother

[@mrsgritoli1]

I saw this show live. Barry is a very funny and witty man. As Billy Conolly once said "political correctness is the language of cowardness"

[@ghughesarch]

I think Billy was probably intelligent enough to say, "the language of cowardice".

[@user-dr3vf7ec4d]

Brilliant man🤩🤩.. saw you many times.👏👏👏 Now you will portray a new character up there.❤ Stay tuned❤

[@fordlandau]

Germaine misses the-point. Sandy describes a deep inner feeling we all share about ageing and death. Its an extremely poignant monologue.

[@ozkaz13]

You did well mate.

[@blogsfred3187]

Farewell Barry RIP.

[@1980Empirical]

😮 "Rolled out of the operating theatre onto oblivion"

[@paulsimpson6899]

Seems Clive James here almost foretold of the sad death of Barry. RIP.

[@mdee8784]

And yet Sandy came home to die in the end most poignantly RIP 🇦🇺

[@beldengi]

Before Barry or Germaine there were George Johnson and Charmian Clift who fled Australia for London and the Greek islands and whose greatest novels were about Australia as in My Brother Jack. You can take them out of Australia but you cannot dislodge the Australian within.

[@skippydebushkangarugus]

Best book on Australia was not by an Australian.It was Kangaroo by DH Lawrence.

[@mrsgritoli1]

Sandy reminds us of the fun and simple times.No rat race or i phones,just simple good honest fun.

[@Scotty-P]

Genius.

[@gyoza007]

Of course, "bleak" is Greer's (very) subjective opinion. For a middle class person (dreaming of life in London, or Paris, or New York) Melbourne in the late '50s and early '60s probably did seem very dull. I think, most working class people would have felt differently.

[@CJ-ft9yo]

especially after the privations of wartime Europe

[@australian6983]

Exactly but I'm sure there were people who loved Melbourne or other parts of Australia. I lot of brits came over here very willingly and because of the good weather and job prosperities that were tougher at the time in the home country.

[@ellonysman]

I still can only hear Dame Edna but in slow motion....

[@jamesross2373]

So this is where Family Guy got the voice for Herbert the Pervert!

[@googleisgay3289]

"They's all the first to go," puts paid the poor.

[@debiedog1]

What in bloody hell would Germaine Greer know??? Piss off - are you with me?

[@australian6983]

Deadset she said it as though everyone in Australia agrees with this cynical leftist sentiment.

[@australian6983]

Deadset she said it as though everyone would agree with her cyclical left wing sentiment.

[@coldacre]

with a bit of healthy 1950's xenophobia mixed in for good measure ;)

[@DenkyManner]

Weird that James believes Stone is the creation and Everage and Patterson are the aspects of himself. I don't know Humphreys at all but on the face of it it would seem the opposite

[@gleggett3817]

James knew Humphries in London in the 1960s. Time enough to study him.

[@raymondwelsh6028]

Why was Cruella the Krone introducing this.🇦🇺

[@stevecox7075]

Speak for yourself. Germaine Greer is a great Australian who is loved by many. She, like Barry Humphries and countless others Australian intellectuals, had to leave Australia in the 1960s in order to be taken seriously and to find success. Nothing much has changed, Australians still hate intellectuals and anything cultural.

[@debiedog1]

@debiedog1 And you, obviously!!!

[@glenemma1]

The only thing ''bleak'' in this video is Germaine Greer and her arrogant persona.

[@australian6983]

Right you are.

[@ArchibaldBagge]

Thank God this generation of crashing pompous bores is almost at an end

[@Jamie-my6xx]

Those who never experienced the beauty of this time will never understand

[@johndonga9067]

And a male.