Barry Humphries "Sandy Comes Home" - Single Voices Monologue

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• PE

  @peterg7480 · 3 months ago

  I thought i had seen all of Barrie's genius....this is something else

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• AG

  @AGMundy · 11 months ago

  I absolutely loved this when I saw it 1990. Sandy Stone has become my favourite character of this comic genius.

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• FO

  @forgottentelevisiondrama2750 · 1 year ago

  Tx: 03 June 1990.

• GI

  @gideon_uk9754 · 2 years ago

  This is such poingnant stuff that would give Alan Bennett a run for his money. Humphries was a genuine comedy genius...it&apos;s not hyperbolic to say this. Much of his success was forged in Britain and many like me in the UK would like to claim him as our own. Truth is he was always a patriotic Australian and it is probably presumptuous for me to claim him. Why the Australians didn&apos;t knight him I do not know. He made no secret of the fact he would have liked that. For that matter...in the absence of an Aussie knighthood I don&apos;t know why the British didn&apos;t knight him....I mean they gave him the CBE which is the usual precursor to a KBE.<br>So going to miss the Barry&apos;s talent for lifting our moods. If Dame Edna was going to be a guest on a talk show you always knew it would be worth watching...even if you knew her routine lines by heart... somehow it never got old.

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• WA

  @warrenreddaway5734 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Absolutely brilliant.. The voice of our Grandparents.. Great Auntie&apos;s and Uncles..<br>That sacrificed so much...and gained a bit..<br>Australia 2023 has so many parasites.. Abusing the Australian way of life for there own gain..with no regard to our aged..Introduced by our own parliament...&quot; To make Australia.. fill jobs...&quot;<br>To comply to foreign policy. <br><br>God Bless those who work in aged care..And who care for those who gave so much.<br><br>The new, young Australians...<br>Seduction of the innocent...<br>Tik Tok.. Tik Tok...

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• DI

  @dickmiles6639 · 3 years ago

  WONDERFUL

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• MO

  @mortalclown3812 · 3 years ago

  Rest in paradise, possums.<br>❤

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• JA

  @James-kv6kb · 3 years ago

  Rest in peace Barry .

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• HE

  @helensalter5067 · 3 years ago

  Sandy was always my favourite alter ego of Barry&apos;s - he was Barry&apos;s too. &nbsp;Sheer genius. &nbsp;Bless you Barry, such wonderful memories, but to quote Sandy I will find it very difficult to &quot;Never go back!&quot; &nbsp;to those memories, even if they are now tinged with sadness. &nbsp;Rest In Peace, dear Barry.

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• AJ

  @AJ-tp9bk · 3 years ago

  How strange, now, &nbsp;to hear him say &quot;I&apos;m glad I never had a fall.&quot;

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• RO

  @robinsings · 3 years ago

  I wonder if that was off the cuff or scripted.. love him.

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• ST

  @stephenasbridge878 · 3 years ago

  For all his faults, I cannot help liking Sandy. Barry Humphries walks a fine line between affectionate mockery and harsh satire every time he writes something for him. Australian people of Sandy’s generation were so like my grandparents (I’m British) and it’s uncanny to see their ideas, habits etc pretty much replicated in a country on the other side of the planet.

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