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The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’, ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'

Sunday: Barry Humphries at the BBC (BBC2, 9pm)

Australian comedian and actor, best known for his creations Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, has died aged 89

Through a career spanning seven decades, Barry Humphries emerged as a creative genius and one of the world’s greatest comics.

Famed for personas that also included the vulgar Sir Les Patterson, Humphries became a household name in a seven-decade career

Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna Everage, dies aged 89. Humphries was a master of provocation and glorious grotesquerie

Australian was never a genial humorist. There was always a whiff of sulphur in his comedy

During a seven-decade career, the stage and screen veteran entertained generations with satirical characters including Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson

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