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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