Dame Edna at the Michael Parkinson show PART 2

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  • @cannonlamont482
    @cannonlamont482 Год назад +87

    I was privileged to spend an evening with Dame Edna during her Final Farewell Tour at the Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre in 2015. It was blissful evening with the brilliant and magnificent treasure, Barry Humphries and his beyond-delightful persona, Dame Edna... truly a night I have and will never forget. He was an absolute one of a kind and a gift to us all. RIP, you funny man.

    • @annstar4306
      @annstar4306 Год назад +5

      Oh how lucky , what a great thing to have done ❤️. Love the Dame 😀😀😀😀❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @robertSharp-s3s
      @robertSharp-s3s 10 месяцев назад +1

      Hi from Australia. Beautifully said.

    • @rodman50
      @rodman50 8 месяцев назад +2

      I saw Dame Edna in Pittsburgh, PA. One of the best experiences I've ever had. The Dame probably has Heaven in stitches!

    • @keiththompson7785
      @keiththompson7785 5 месяцев назад +1

      I took my six-year-old son to see Dame Edna in San Francisco many years ago, not telling him what he was in for except that it would be quite fun.
      When she came out on stage and said hello possums, my insightful son leaned into me and said ‘dad, that’s really a man.’ I said ‘I know, that’s what makes it funny’ and we both laughed all the way through.

  • @stevebutler7006
    @stevebutler7006 Год назад +68

    Watching Edna today. The day she passed in 2023. She will be sadly missed.

  • @vova47
    @vova47 Год назад +32

    Never gets old however many times you watch!

  • @suehead109
    @suehead109 Год назад +116

    Dame Edna giving Lenny Henry a lesson on what it is to be funny.

  • @neilgutteridge6405
    @neilgutteridge6405 3 года назад +188

    Lenny Henry totally outgunned by a superior level of genius.

    • @robertcomer2767
      @robertcomer2767 3 года назад +16

      He still would be.

    • @alextelford5176
      @alextelford5176 3 года назад +10

      He has no talent and has earned a living being a pro black a race hustler, he is as funny as tooth ache

    • @WWAWHTR
      @WWAWHTR 2 года назад +22

      Try to upstage Barry H at your peril.

    • @Glamrock01
      @Glamrock01 2 года назад +4

      @@alextelford5176 I've always thought that...

    • @Muzzy68
      @Muzzy68 Год назад +25

      Lenny Henry is so not funny. I’m amazed he’s got where he’s got

  • @colleenwiedemann6521
    @colleenwiedemann6521 Год назад +22

    I’m still laughing!! & it’s
    2023!! Hooray 🥰

  • @yortsemloh1156
    @yortsemloh1156 4 года назад +92

    I love to see Dame Edna among other comedians because you can sense they are intimidated and she never fails to crush them with her unrivaled wit and timing.

    • @seanaustin609
      @seanaustin609 3 года назад +7

      i would love to have seen her against john cleese.

    • @nespressoman
      @nespressoman Год назад +4

      She shows just how unfunny Lenny Henry is.

    • @soeffingwhat
      @soeffingwhat Месяц назад +1

      No they're not intimidated, not in a negative way anyway.

    • @soeffingwhat
      @soeffingwhat Месяц назад

      @@nespressoman How?

  • @roseofsharon2156
    @roseofsharon2156 Год назад +32

    In my life you have been the humour that keeps me laughing. Thank you so much Barry.

  • @markwhitman9542
    @markwhitman9542 3 года назад +22

    Wonderful! Michael Parkinson & Lenny Henry play along fantastically with the great Dame's rapier wit. Great show!!

  • @mojo_guru4448
    @mojo_guru4448 Год назад +23

    Edna was always several steps in front and knew how to set up the joke before the receiving end had any clue what was coming. Genius!

  • @darraghgregory1269
    @darraghgregory1269 Год назад +55

    Rest in peace ❤ to an absolute icon 🙏 thanks Dame Edna for the laughs 😅

  • @anthonytino5103
    @anthonytino5103 Год назад +5

    Nick Tino.. Almost 10 minutes is worth it.. Still one of my all time faves! 🙏🤣🤣

  • @SuperStargazer666
    @SuperStargazer666 8 лет назад +303

    Comedy gold. Dame Edna could arguably be the funniest 'Lady' ever in TV history. We salute you dear Barry Humphries!!

    • @tjcint
      @tjcint Год назад

      Most definitely ...

  • @magzsara9892
    @magzsara9892 6 лет назад +89

    I never realised Michael Parkinson was so very good . He really brings out the brilliance in the Dame..

    • @paulhenshall2221
      @paulhenshall2221 5 лет назад +15

      He knows how to be a good feed and then step back.

    • @photo161
      @photo161 4 года назад +15

      Parky is a superb straight man!...none better...

    • @diangara3298
      @diangara3298 12 дней назад +1

      The obelisk set up was top tier

  • @yortsemloh1156
    @yortsemloh1156 4 года назад +97

    This is one of Dame Edna’s best. Barry’s wit and timing is unparalleled.

    • @blueskye6372
      @blueskye6372 4 года назад +4

      So agree. 💜👍🎥📺🎬😆

    • @delailama736
      @delailama736 4 года назад +8

      I remember an interview with David Walliams from Little Britain and he was having breakfast in a restaurant with Barry Humphries. A waiter approached the table and asked "fresh orange juice?" and Barry said "have you got any that's a few days old and on the turn?"

    • @JavenarchX
      @JavenarchX Год назад +1

      Astounding comic Troy

    • @lapislazuli7876
      @lapislazuli7876 Год назад +2

      @@blueskye6372Lenny Bruce is out of his league here. Can’t keep up with the Dame. Just pulls comic faces because he doesn’t have a come back or know what to say.

    • @nespressoman
      @nespressoman Год назад +1

      @@lapislazuli7876 Lenny Bruce?

  • @lekkki1
    @lekkki1 7 лет назад +151

    She is so, SO funny. Sometimes I have to watch her stuff 2x to catch all of her asides and witticisms. Thank you for years of laughter Edna, thank you. I am one of her American possums, have loved her for years. She has become a very big deal out here, we need her now more than ever.

    • @johnnyb9218
      @johnnyb9218 5 лет назад +9

      Same here. Sometimes she's so quick its almost hard to believe Barry Humphries is 85.

    • @kokoeteantigha389
      @kokoeteantigha389 3 года назад +5

      Like the one about not abbreviating Kunta Kinte. That one flew right over everyone's head.

  • @roseofsharon2156
    @roseofsharon2156 Год назад +15

    I have a gladioli pressed. Before you became a Dame. Countless hours of laughter.
    Barry the comic genius. Thank you ❤❤❤

  • @berniemcguire2782
    @berniemcguire2782 Год назад +42

    Possums. Watching this today - April 22nd, 2023 - with news Dame Edna has passed away aged 89. I've got tears in my eyes, uncontrollably laughing and also with much sadness

  • @jonc6250
    @jonc6250 3 года назад +47

    Her timing is outstanding. Such a comic genius

  • @xchimino2
    @xchimino2 4 года назад +21

    I'm in love with Dame Edna... Been binge watching her videos since yesterday

  • @manichairdo6346
    @manichairdo6346 5 лет назад +235

    Dame Edna is INSANE. These days she would be tarred and feathered for some of what she said. BRILLIANT. Her wit is so sharp I have to watch her twice because I lol till tears roll down my face. Funny, funny lady.

    • @lapalad
      @lapalad 3 года назад +21

      There was a comedy award in Australia named after Barry Humphries but the snowflakes got it changed because of some jokes about gay people he told 20 years ago.

    • @scswp6945
      @scswp6945 3 года назад +30

      @@lapalad
      Ridiculous that they changed it! It was part of a tongue-in-cheek act for goodness sake. There was no malice in it as far as I can see. Her appearances with Matt Lucas and Will Young (the latter on the Rob Brydon show) had such leanings and they were hilarious - and I’m a gay man! There’s a difference between comedy and homophobia. Dame Edna, I believe, was not guilty of the latter.

    • @christophertucker8031
      @christophertucker8031 3 года назад +3

      Just checking...
      You know her real name is Barry.

    • @Cloudberry46
      @Cloudberry46 3 года назад +9

      We're now in a sad place where miserable wokeism is trying to eradicate comedic geniuses like Dame Edna.

    • @libertyordeaf
      @libertyordeaf 2 года назад +4

      The jokes about gays in San Francisco or Lenny Henry being West Indian wouldn't fly for most comedians. But Humphries was always able to get away with that because as brilliant as Edna is, he's also not afraid of sometimes making her look naive or backward. It's an amazing character.

  • @orbs1062
    @orbs1062 4 года назад +132

    "In the cemetery, buffing my husband's obelisk."
    Oh holy hell.... Thought I'd never catch my breath!
    GENIUS. ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!

    • @paylmoffat3409
      @paylmoffat3409 4 года назад +12

      He used to like me doing that when he was still alive”!!!

    • @MrBenHaynes
      @MrBenHaynes 4 года назад +5

      @@paylmoffat3409 Subtle as a sledgehammer the Ol' Dame, for those who didn't get it the first time. 😂

    • @ANGELANGEL-ch7wh
      @ANGELANGEL-ch7wh 3 года назад +4

      🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

  • @crystalheart9
    @crystalheart9 7 лет назад +79

    Love seeing Dame Edna with Michael Parkinson, they are magic together!

  • @ts.elliot5870
    @ts.elliot5870 3 месяца назад +7

    Love the Dame! She just takes over and brings the house down.

  • @rosabuzzai8741
    @rosabuzzai8741 4 года назад +51

    Best thing to come out of Australia! Legend!

  • @stephenpike3147
    @stephenpike3147 Год назад +15

    Priceless and timeless.

  • @RHP9898
    @RHP9898 Год назад +20

    She can say whatever she likes and gets away with it. Bless her!

  • @simonrussell1944
    @simonrussell1944 Год назад +20

    i have lauged more thru that short appearance...with actual tears running down my face, than I have done thru lenny henry's entire career !

  • @MrsSonyaKS
    @MrsSonyaKS 6 лет назад +71

    Dame Edna is quite naughty and absolutely brilliant. What a gem💜

  • @yortsemloh1156
    @yortsemloh1156 2 года назад +49

    When he totally snatches the Kunta-kentae joke from Lenny it proves his unrivaled comedic genius.

  • @algoyo
    @algoyo 14 лет назад +288

    Dame Edna is simply incredible. Nobody gets out alive. She's like some fantastic, relentless demon!

    • @ixopo6715
      @ixopo6715 4 года назад +10

      But a very nice demon as it’s all done with such wit.

    • @spizzenergi2292
      @spizzenergi2292 3 года назад +6

      The only person that made Micheal Parkinson laugh out loud

    • @supersonicsid5930
      @supersonicsid5930 2 года назад +6

      @@spizzenergi2292
      Dame Edna is the cream when it comes to comedians unfortunately Lenny Henry isn’t

    • @spizzenergi2292
      @spizzenergi2292 2 года назад +3

      @@supersonicsid5930 he never has and never will.

  • @divox9pqr
    @divox9pqr 3 года назад +28

    LOL…I’m in tears laughing with the Dame as she goes about “ buffering up her husbands obelisk”. …Comedic Gold I tell you..So good!

  • @christianeerwin4837
    @christianeerwin4837 6 лет назад +120

    Barry Humphries was 76 years old back then.......and not a bit old -so full of life !Amazing !

  • @stephennagy6675
    @stephennagy6675 6 лет назад +91

    Love watching Michael, he always looses it when Dame Edna is on

  • @tomtalker2000
    @tomtalker2000 7 лет назад +100

    She is absolutely fantastic...!!! Quick witted and just born for this role. God bless Dame Edna...!!!

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube Год назад +26

    barry's dame never fails to crack me up, such a brilliant conversationalist.

  • @peterd788
    @peterd788 Год назад +19

    Parky always got on very well with Dame Edna and her friends.

  • @oddforestcritter
    @oddforestcritter 4 года назад +31

    His mind is so fast and sharp. Nobody ad libs like Barry Humphries

  • @Handleyman
    @Handleyman 6 лет назад +61

    Amazing as this might sound but Dame Edna ad libs pretty much everything you hear. Just brilliant. So quick!

  • @billyf5591
    @billyf5591 Год назад +25

    Dame Edna and Sir Led Patterson are two of the greatest persona's created by this genius of a man. A true comic legend. And then their is Sir, Lenny Henry. 🙈

    • @genramsey
      @genramsey Год назад +2

      Thank you for identifying the gentleman guest. I had no idea who he was. BTW, I has always adored Dame Edna 💖😊

  • @everettfuqua114
    @everettfuqua114 12 лет назад +46

    Absolutely hysterical! One of Dame Edna's funniest interviews.

  • @hismajestysmen
    @hismajestysmen 3 года назад +45

    Kunta Kinte. “Ooh I’m glad you didn’t abbreviate it, Leonard.” Spit-out-the-tea moment!

  • @barbararyan4084
    @barbararyan4084 Год назад +16

    A true genuis!! Thank you for the laughs!! 🤣RIP

  • @No_mans_flies
    @No_mans_flies Год назад +20

    Barry was so good off the cuff, what a fucking legend.

  • @warrenreddaway5734
    @warrenreddaway5734 Год назад +11

    What a quick wit...
    You'd be hard pressed not to succumb to a healthy belly laugh.
    Brilliance supreme as seen here.
    RIP.

  • @glensilvademelo4856
    @glensilvademelo4856 3 года назад +26

    Never gets old so very funny, always cheers me up when feeling sad she is the best

  • @beaconterraoneonline
    @beaconterraoneonline 2 года назад +19

    It’s astonishing how good Barry Humphries is doing Dame Edna as he does. Incredibly entertaining & brilliantly funny.

  • @fionaadams5210
    @fionaadams5210 5 лет назад +16

    Michael Parkinson is an amazing interviewer. With Dame Edna!! Wow. She is just wonderful. Just fantastic from the 3 of them. So clever and so entertaing. Love it.

  • @geekay1349
    @geekay1349 4 года назад +52

    We could use Edna's wisdom-laden humour these days. Time for an encore.

  • @etiennecfourie777
    @etiennecfourie777 5 лет назад +32

    The irrepressible and brilliant Barry Humphries! Oh what a laugh!

  • @diedrapayne6202
    @diedrapayne6202 5 лет назад +10

    I listen and watch and am never ready for the laughter...simply delicious!

  • @nathelondon3719
    @nathelondon3719 Год назад +30

    If Lenny Henry lives to be 100 he’ll never even approach Dame Edna wit.

    • @StMeadMary
      @StMeadMary 3 месяца назад +2

      Awww but Lenny is so funny and when I was a kid I loved his characters on Saturday morning tv. 🎉

  • @younowhythatis6381
    @younowhythatis6381 Год назад +19

    Lenny Henry......as funny as watching an orphanage burn down.sitting next to a damn genius.........

  • @jaysahota3275
    @jaysahota3275 5 лет назад +47

    Me too! Comedy genius - no equal, even today!

  • @binkwillans5138
    @binkwillans5138 2 года назад +16

    What a wonderful faithful woman, buffing up her husband's obelisk.

  • @jennyiedema680
    @jennyiedema680 3 года назад +16

    Luv the double entendre... There I was rubbing my husband's obelisk..... With a mind so razor sharp it can cut anyone down in an instant. What a wit.... He should be on every schools curriculum.

  • @mikecathy3875
    @mikecathy3875 4 года назад +48

    “I’ve helped this show how many times ? “ 😂😂😂

    • @tryan7
      @tryan7 3 года назад +6

      If you can call it a show. 😂😉😂

  • @MajellaRS
    @MajellaRS 11 лет назад +167

    How fast is she...hear's "Kunte Kinte"...and quicker than lightning, upstages Lenny in a heartbeat. I loved Lenny's "frozen" look...he's a great sport and knows not to try and upstage her...notice she said straight after that comeback "Leonard"...you can't beat that quick wit...NOBODY CAN!

    • @turnedaround4954
      @turnedaround4954 6 лет назад +9

      Flawless!!

    • @martinplatt5928
      @martinplatt5928 6 лет назад +4

      100% agree

    • @MAZ732
      @MAZ732 5 лет назад +4

      You do realise that dame Edna is really a man called Barry Humphrey’s. talking like he is a she!
      Gimmick !
      Masterclass at wit 👍

    • @jasonhurd4379
      @jasonhurd4379 5 лет назад +16

      @@MAZ732 No!! Really? A man in woman's clothing? Really truly so? Imagine that! Good heavens! I never would have suspected! She's so dainty and feminine! I can't credit it! Honestly, I am shocked and bewildered to learn that Dame Edna is ACTUALLY A MAN! More shocking revelations:
      - Cancer can be FATAL!
      - Water is WET!
      - Blood is RED!
      - Birds can FLY!
      Thank you so much.

    • @MAZ732
      @MAZ732 5 лет назад +1

      Jason Hurd my comments wasn’t aimed at you so dick head

  • @garygrimmett7945
    @garygrimmett7945 Год назад +37

    Parky just goes along with it 😂brilliant 👏 hilarious 😁 r.i.p...barry...❤

  • @davedaveson5495
    @davedaveson5495 3 года назад +18

    Could watch Dame Edna all the time.
    Brilliant wit, timing and use if the character.
    You can sense that those around her are very wary about what they say.
    The character is so quick witted and cutting, no-one stands a chance.

  • @ausplus
    @ausplus 8 лет назад +75

    Don't take her on...she always wins!

  • @geoffheaney5114
    @geoffheaney5114 4 года назад +21

    She is always at her comedic genius best on Parkinson ☺☺He just lets her take over the show ☺☺Good on Parky 🙂☺

  • @paulcafferkey865
    @paulcafferkey865 Год назад +3

    Michael Parkstone and Dame are amazing

  • @sarahholland1375
    @sarahholland1375 5 лет назад +55

    "Buffing up my husband's obelisk" . I died. For genuinely spit your tea out, "she sad what?" filth & quick witted unrehearsed one liners (the Kunte Kinte one especially) , Dame Edna is Queen...!

    • @torchyswinson7264
      @torchyswinson7264 5 лет назад +3

      Sarah holland absolutely love her!

    • @rjkral
      @rjkral 4 года назад +2

      Sarah holland haha Yes, she is simultaneously completely clean and absolutely filthy at the very same time. Genius!

    • @davedaveson5495
      @davedaveson5495 3 года назад +1

      True.
      Lenny Henry thought he'd made the joke only to be upstaged and outwitted by Dame Edna.
      Brilliant.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад +2

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face....

  • @peterskye5158
    @peterskye5158 3 года назад +73

    As I've said elsewhere, Humphries is a true legend. The current 'cancel culture' may have something to say, but his comic genius cannot be denied.

  • @waynemattimore7711
    @waynemattimore7711 4 года назад +8

    Good old Parky, Edna on form as usual and great to see Lenny Henry as well. Shame we don't see Edna on tv as much these days but still great to see these old clips.

  • @sarahdrenth1540
    @sarahdrenth1540 2 дня назад

    RIP Barry (aka Dame Edna). How fortunate are we that we can still watch this comedic genius on YT or other platforms.
    I think its a testament to his wit and delivery that he gets away with so much that a younger less understood comedian wouldn't.
    I rewatch the Parkinson episodes regularly because they're the best to my mind. Ill never stop rofl-ing to those.
    Ricky Gervais is the only other comedian to come close to Dame Edna.

  • @jkjerken
    @jkjerken 8 лет назад +42

    How great a talent is this Dame?

  • @philipjacobs7044
    @philipjacobs7044 6 лет назад +27

    The best entertainer ever!

  • @Mania28
    @Mania28 4 года назад +5

    Really quick witted and an answered for everything.

  • @Kinopanorama1
    @Kinopanorama1 8 лет назад +53

    Priceless. Dame Edna rules.

  • @Othmane589
    @Othmane589 8 лет назад +79

    "I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it" brilliant !

    • @barbarafitzgeraldd5855
      @barbarafitzgeraldd5855 6 лет назад +1

      Facebook's

    • @johnwilsonwsws
      @johnwilsonwsws 4 года назад +3

      I think there is only one person in the world who could have come up with that joke on the spot and, thankfully, she was sitting right there. Comic genius.

    • @xchimino2
      @xchimino2 4 года назад +1

      I'm not a native English speaker so I completely missed the joke... could someone explain it to me? Thank you!

    • @philipkuttner7945
      @philipkuttner7945 4 года назад +2

      @@xchimino2 The first four letters of Kunte sound like the English word for coño--only it's a much more vulgar word in English than in Spanish; you could never say it on television.

    • @andreavelardi9995
      @andreavelardi9995 Год назад

      Could you explain me foreign the joke you catch in thus line? K*** Is pronounced in another way than Kunta in Kunta Kinte.....

  • @JimBobH13
    @JimBobH13 2 года назад +10

    OMG. "I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it, Leonard."

    • @andreavelardi9995
      @andreavelardi9995 Год назад

      I dont catch the joke in this line.... Could you explain me? Thanks

  • @Allsgood4321
    @Allsgood4321 Год назад +14

    Love Edna with the Australians and British, majority of Americans just don’t have the same sense of humour….as the Dame said ‘they’re too serious’.

  • @JudyFord-fm6ju
    @JudyFord-fm6ju 3 месяца назад

    Dame Edna in Adelaide half a lifetime ago and she brought Sir Les and Sandy with her. What a great show that was and such a happy one. As usual she threw Gladies into the audience and I saw one heading toward me so I put my hand up to protect my face and caught it much to the annoyance of the person behind me who was hoping to catch it! How I treasured that flower and I dried it to look back on and remember that wonderful evening. Thanks to You Tube for keeping all those memories alive. I have watched those shows over and over again and they are so uplifting, every time. Thank you Barry / Dame Edna for your clever wit and happiness you gave us. Alas no more. 😢. R.I.P.

  • @martinweier505
    @martinweier505 7 лет назад +72

    Barry Humphries the epitome of Aussie humour, Subversive, silly and laughing at yourself

  • @americarsqueensland1667
    @americarsqueensland1667 5 лет назад +13

    Barry is so superb and witty as Edna and Sir Les too.

  • @trschaefer
    @trschaefer 8 лет назад +39

    This is hysterical!

  • @zorkwork3841
    @zorkwork3841 4 года назад +8

    I live Dame Edna...such wit...and gets away with saying things while being so charming and silly.

  • @lindawitherspoon446
    @lindawitherspoon446 2 года назад +8

    I do love Dame Edna. What a character.

  • @jlaw7842
    @jlaw7842 6 лет назад +39

    Dame Edna is hysterical!!

  • @Stikibits
    @Stikibits 12 лет назад +101

    Barry Humphries is living, comic genius.

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr 3 года назад

      He's dead

    • @NickGreenwoodable
      @NickGreenwoodable 3 года назад +4

      @@zapkvr He is not dead.

    • @Muswell
      @Muswell Год назад +1

      He just died -- April 2023.

    • @anthony-kelly
      @anthony-kelly Год назад +1

      ​@@zapkvr what is your problem mate?

  • @jhas888
    @jhas888 6 лет назад +17

    So quick. Humphries walked into lunch at Tasmania's Launceston Hotel around 1970. Saw red flock wallpaper, red table-cloths, red upholstery ... and said instantly ... ''One feels like a tick in an abattoir''. Lunch for two. Such a privilege

  • @Deborah-u7y
    @Deborah-u7y Месяц назад

    what wonderful cheeky humour from Barry a true pro and a lasting treasure to all of us Thank God for RUclips XXXXXX

  • @kimberlyloranger8321
    @kimberlyloranger8321 3 года назад +11

    "It wouldn't surprise me if Martians didn't adore me."
    Made me think of a bustling population of aliens on Mars, all wearing wavy purple wigs and glittery cat glasses.

    • @paulwilliams862
      @paulwilliams862 3 года назад

      This is a rare grammatical error. “It wouldn’t surprise me if Martians adored me” is the correct version. Other than that I consider BH to be a master of the English language.

    • @robertwilliams060
      @robertwilliams060 Год назад

      @Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

  • @robertSharp-s3s
    @robertSharp-s3s 10 месяцев назад

    A comedic Genius. Michael Parkinson was always an amazing partner during these segments. Both enhanced one another so Naturally. Both very generous. Both now moved on. Two more stars in heaven which is now Richer with their presence. Thank you Barry and Michael for sharing with us. Gods speed..

  • @rael1999
    @rael1999 6 месяцев назад +1

    He was so incredibly sharp and witty off the cuff...It's one thing having a prepared routine, but to be able to come back to questioning like that and be so funny. Absolute legend ! Is there anyone around now who is as funny as this off the cuff ? There was no filter with Dame Edna and yes sometimes, especially looking back there would have been an inappropriate bullet being fired off every now and then, but without that freedom you don't get that natural comeback and the flow of all the great lines live like this. People these days stop and think before they wise crack in case they upset someone and as such it's all become rather sterile.
    I literally cried laughing at some of those comebacks and stories. Humour is such a tonic to difficult times.

  • @readmelancholystrumpetmaster
    @readmelancholystrumpetmaster 12 лет назад +31

    This is as funny as anything I can remember seeing.

  • @copferthat
    @copferthat 4 года назад +56

    Lenny's never seen one of those before, a comedian.

    • @Knappa22
      @Knappa22 3 года назад +8

      He’s certainly never seen one in the mirror.

    • @cragerzz
      @cragerzz 3 года назад +7

      Lenny just isnt funny

    • @copferthat
      @copferthat 3 года назад +4

      @@cragerzz Has anybody seen his first acts? He's as funny a syphilis and the only reason he ever I mean ever, got where he is is that he's, what can I say? He's of the right BBC material. They desperately needed one, he provided it. Take the word black from his act.... he hasn't got an act and if that's not racist against whites, what is? By the way, do you know hw once did a film where he 'whited up' That's right, he was made up to be white.... you RACIST Lenny, when are you going to apologise to every white person in Britain for that outrageous RACISM and why is everybody going out of their way to conceal the fact?

    • @imgoodatmoaning9561
      @imgoodatmoaning9561 3 года назад +3

      He should have stuck to the likes of tiswas.

    • @graemeking7336
      @graemeking7336 3 года назад +3

      Thank you, so much.
      It's refreshing to learn that I'm far from the only one who thinks that Lenny of the wide eye roll is about as non-funny as a blackface parody

  • @GlenTVandFilms
    @GlenTVandFilms 11 лет назад +71

    Absolute genius!!!

    • @ameagher2
      @ameagher2 11 лет назад +3

      Yep, quality stuff. Now listen here young man - you shouldn't be watching an adult show with an errection ... now go to your room! ...

    • @Saraaa2538
      @Saraaa2538 11 лет назад

      You must be a woofta

    • @ameagher2
      @ameagher2 11 лет назад +2

      Sir, I don't know what a woofta is but I'm sure I'm not one coz I'm a vegetarian. I made a pun on the top comment who's name ends with "errect". Harmless. Is that a snap of your daughter on your home channel? ... nice - is she a vego too?

  • @fredflintstone8569
    @fredflintstone8569 3 года назад +52

    I'd forgotten Lenny Henry is a comedy vacuum.

    • @adrianmercuri8956
      @adrianmercuri8956 3 года назад +3

      What a self aggrandising tone deaf non entity he is!

    • @rnw2739
      @rnw2739 3 года назад +5

      @@adrianmercuri8956 What a succinct and superbly accurate description!! Bravo!

  • @suemcdermott3482
    @suemcdermott3482 3 года назад +7

    Micheal Parkinson loves her and l love the way he just can't help himself and piss him self with laughter lol

  • @margaretcaine4219
    @margaretcaine4219 3 года назад +7

    Barry Humphrey is unbelievably talented.He can also write. I really enjoyed reading his memoir of growing up in Melbourne, and a more serious supposed novel called Women in the Background.

  • @paulcafferkey865
    @paulcafferkey865 Год назад +4

    Stunning artist 😊❤

  • @newtonwhatevs
    @newtonwhatevs 3 года назад +6

    I had completely forgotten there was such a thing as Lenny Henry.

  • @bobbydazzler330
    @bobbydazzler330 3 года назад +19

    Lennie is about as funny as scratching your hemorrhoids with a chainsaw

  • @jslasher1
    @jslasher1 6 лет назад +52

    Comic genius. That's our Barry Humphries.

  • @sebastiansaville2043
    @sebastiansaville2043 4 года назад +54

    Kunte Kinte. I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it. That was so quick. Barry Humphries would have to be one of the best exponents of improvisation in the world.

    • @hammy203
      @hammy203 3 года назад +1

      I didnt get that joke, can you explaon pls?

    • @timothyblake9213
      @timothyblake9213 3 года назад +2

      @@hammy203 If you abbreviated it you would get something which sounds like cunt which is probably the rudest word in the English language (slang for vagina - female sex organ)

    • @tigerfeet2813
      @tigerfeet2813 3 года назад +1

      It's the facial expressions too..😆

  • @carolwood9270
    @carolwood9270 5 лет назад +10

    I’m watching in 2019 and laughing.......

  • @allysonfoster9532
    @allysonfoster9532 9 месяцев назад

    I love her! I saw her in concert, and she was amazing ❤️