The telling thing about his Patterson performance generally is that it captures almost all of the caricatures of Aussie middle aged men post 1950 I remember...as do obviously thousands opf mu fellow baby boomers...his Les Paterson leer, is pure ' Sydney Halen/Honest John Gilbert-working-an-RSL-crowd ' look..at an RSL..or yacht club..or smoke nights...ageing disgracefully...'cos they could....as a visual commentator of your times, Humphries is a giant.....an antipodean Charles Dickens.......
@kevinherbert I'm a babyboomer Australian living in the US, and thank God for you tube where we can excavate great stuff like this. You've summed it up brilliantly. Humphries is an unparalleled genius.
@kevinherbert Don't know about Syd Halen Or Honest John, but he is definitely the penultimate Aussie politician, a politician I knew closely resembled and acted as Sir Les would, the bum pinch and leer, always horny, but I think it applies to many other Australians of that vintage. Australian humour is crass, quick witted and bludgeoning, Rodney Rude as an example.
@kevinherbert You have just made my appreciation of the wonderful Barry H soar to even greater heights.
Dear Old Honest John and Sydney ("from Sydney") were great old troopers the likes of whom will never reappear save through the work of Sir Les and Barry H.
Long live Sir Les and Dame Edna.Wonderful and dare I say it,proud Aussies.
Eeww, Joan Rivers looks like a malnourished poodle.
clumpft 6 days ago
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME HE HAS MADE ME LAUGH! =-D
atomicnortherner 2 months ago
@atomicnortherner Are you American?
clumpft 1 week ago
@clumpft English =D
atomicnortherner 1 week ago
Sir Les for President !!!
FloydyTube 7 months ago
The telling thing about his Patterson performance generally is that it captures almost all of the caricatures of Aussie middle aged men post 1950 I remember...as do obviously thousands opf mu fellow baby boomers...his Les Paterson leer, is pure ' Sydney Halen/Honest John Gilbert-working-an-RSL-crowd ' look..at an RSL..or yacht club..or smoke nights...ageing disgracefully...'cos they could....as a visual commentator of your times, Humphries is a giant.....an antipodean Charles Dickens.......
kevinherbert 1 year ago 4
@kevinherbert I'm a babyboomer Australian living in the US, and thank God for you tube where we can excavate great stuff like this. You've summed it up brilliantly. Humphries is an unparalleled genius.
1957MCL 10 months ago
@kevinherbert Don't know about Syd Halen Or Honest John, but he is definitely the penultimate Aussie politician, a politician I knew closely resembled and acted as Sir Les would, the bum pinch and leer, always horny, but I think it applies to many other Australians of that vintage. Australian humour is crass, quick witted and bludgeoning, Rodney Rude as an example.
webaroos 9 months ago
@webaroos : rodney rude broke new......wind...he was gr8 I agree.....his disability (being from Perth) never seemed to affect him.......much......
kevinherbert 7 months ago
@kevinherbert You have just made my appreciation of the wonderful Barry H soar to even greater heights.
Dear Old Honest John and Sydney ("from Sydney") were great old troopers the likes of whom will never reappear save through the work of Sir Les and Barry H.
Long live Sir Les and Dame Edna.Wonderful and dare I say it,proud Aussies.
nam9506 9 months ago
So proud to be Australian x
patnelle 1 year ago
No worries!
KidsWithGuns1992 1 year ago 2
Great edit - priceless. Wish we could see the whole thing!
britcomic 1 year ago
now there a fomidable pair, just beautiful
thefairlysimple1 1 year ago
OMG Joan's fushia sleeves are humogous
HCShannon 1 year ago
Master of comedy
coltrane291 1 year ago
OOHH!!! I love that poem..
dont you worry about my saliva LOL!!
roshimiztu 2 years ago 2
love it
SimplyBen84 4 years ago 6
HAHAHHA "i know wt stand up comedian means" - he's so fantastically, hilariously repulsive!!
trainwreckchild 4 years ago 6
Sir Les and Dame Edna are both still around
rhyslings 4 years ago 5
is Sir Les nowadays Dame Edna ???
liljoe666 4 years ago 3
@liljoe666 : Dame Edna is Barry Humphries is Les Patterson...one of the globe's gr8 satirists....
kevinherbert 1 year ago
fantastic
zawam 4 years ago 4
classic
harrytuttle100 4 years ago 7