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Barry Humphries: 'an eye for the absurd'

1975

Barry Humphries: 'an eye for the absurd'

1975

  • NFSA ID1SGJQ6Y5
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSeries
  • GenresWomen, Indigenous as subject, Current affairs
  • Year1975

Barry Humphries gives Mike Willesee an insight into his brand of satire, saying that he always has an eye for the absurd.

Humphries says he enjoys making films, but that 'to work directly with an audience is, to me, the greatest pleasure of all ... There is an immense pleasure in making an audience laugh.'

This clip comes from a compilation of Willesee At Seven interviews from 1975.

Notes by Beth Taylor

Courtesy of
Seven Network

Barry Humphries gives Mike Willesee an insight into his brand of satire, saying that he always has an eye for the absurd.

Humphries says he enjoys making films, but that 'to work directly with an audience is, to me, the greatest pleasure of all ... There is an immense pleasure in making an audience laugh.'

This clip comes from a compilation of Willesee At Seven interviews from 1975.

Notes by Beth Taylor

Courtesy of
Seven Network
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