But following a number of negative comments made by Humphries about transgender people, and a pushback in which comedian Hannah Gadsby played a prominent role, the festival renamed the award. As chance would have it, English transgender comedian Jordan Gray was among the nominees for this year’s top prize.
It’s funny because I met the man briefly (in passing), and, as corroborated by pretty much everyone who knew him personally, or worked with him, he was nothing but polite and kind…
And yet, people who never met him, complete strangers, are now saying the most viable things imaginable, just a day after he passed…
Never in my life did I think we would have “Dixie Chicks 2004 incident” flip political sides quite this fast, but here we damn well are…
“It’s a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger”
Ironic that the same stupid band ended up cancelling their own name, after the zeitgeist changed, lmao…
It was dumb that they changed their names. I always said they have freedom of speech but they needed to understand that country music is a more traditional/conservative fan base. Dame Edna was funny because a man in a dress is supposed to be humorous and not supposed to be taken seriously.
He started the Edna thing in the late 50s, but he had done stage stuff for 70 years…
Crazy longevity, honestly. His legacy will outlive all of these freaks.
Not sure exactly what he said, but basically that, yes. It was on the trans bathroom shit, and it was enough to get him cancelled, but you would have to look at the articles for the exact wording, I’m afraid!
I’ll look up some of his stuff. Like I said I love British tv (pre diversity obsession) and I’ve been meaning to look up some older Australian programming
Never in my life will I have as much bitterness and hate in my heart (I hope) as the posters of the Melbourne subreddit (where Humphries was born and raised) have for probably the most iconic Australian comedian ever...
Fuck's sake, he's not even in the ground yet, and they're already dancing on his grave...
It's vile. Yet that is what passes for "acceptable thought and discourse" online, now, apparently...
He pretty much founded that festival, and, up until a few years back, the main award for it was named in his honour...
This year, they got the evil witch who won the equivalent award to denounce his name, and how he could "In his later years, no longer read the room"...
Barry Humphries was one of the performers I had in mind when I wrote this post a few days ago. The other was Paul O'Grady, who, coincidentally, also died a few weeks ago.
Two drag performers from a different era whose focus was on comedy, not on propagandizing children to chop their dicks off.
Chance has nothing to do with it.
Like how the winner of Australian Idol this year was a lispy, very gay, obese, middle class Aboriginal…
They’re not convincing anyone at this point, with shit like “chance”…
What did he say? That men are not women? I love British tv and I’ve heard of Dame Edna. Was he around the time of Benny Hill or before?
Edit: oh I see he was Australian. Not sure why I thought he was British
It’s funny because I met the man briefly (in passing), and, as corroborated by pretty much everyone who knew him personally, or worked with him, he was nothing but polite and kind…
And yet, people who never met him, complete strangers, are now saying the most viable things imaginable, just a day after he passed…
Never in my life did I think we would have “Dixie Chicks 2004 incident” flip political sides quite this fast, but here we damn well are…
“It’s a sad, sad story when a mother will teach her daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger”
Ironic that the same stupid band ended up cancelling their own name, after the zeitgeist changed, lmao…
It was dumb that they changed their names. I always said they have freedom of speech but they needed to understand that country music is a more traditional/conservative fan base. Dame Edna was funny because a man in a dress is supposed to be humorous and not supposed to be taken seriously.
Before, I think. Or maybe slightly after…
He started the Edna thing in the late 50s, but he had done stage stuff for 70 years…
Crazy longevity, honestly. His legacy will outlive all of these freaks.
Not sure exactly what he said, but basically that, yes. It was on the trans bathroom shit, and it was enough to get him cancelled, but you would have to look at the articles for the exact wording, I’m afraid!
I’ll look up some of his stuff. Like I said I love British tv (pre diversity obsession) and I’ve been meaning to look up some older Australian programming
My god, Australian reddit is just... Wow.
Taking a giant dump on a deceased person before the body is even cold, because they didn't subscribe to your precious groupthink...
Geeze that place is evil... :-(
Never in my life will I have as much bitterness and hate in my heart (I hope) as the posters of the Melbourne subreddit (where Humphries was born and raised) have for probably the most iconic Australian comedian ever...
Fuck's sake, he's not even in the ground yet, and they're already dancing on his grave...
It's vile. Yet that is what passes for "acceptable thought and discourse" online, now, apparently...
We're doomed.
He pretty much founded that festival, and, up until a few years back, the main award for it was named in his honour...
This year, they got the evil witch who won the equivalent award to denounce his name, and how he could "In his later years, no longer read the room"...
Here's the Daily Mail's take on all this insanity: https://archive.is/NomTA
Of course anti-comedian Hannah Gadsby had to get her boot in too.
Barry Humphries was one of the performers I had in mind when I wrote this post a few days ago. The other was Paul O'Grady, who, coincidentally, also died a few weeks ago.
Two drag performers from a different era whose focus was on comedy, not on propagandizing children to chop their dicks off.