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For over 40 years, the iconic John Clarke tickled the funny bones of Australian and New Zealand audiences. Now, in this | dG1fTG9nQ0E1TVNpbTQ
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00:00My whole life people asked me what it was like to have John Clark as a dad.
00:11Is that a Lauren's father?
00:13There's a daughter.
00:14There's a beach down there.
00:15That is a lesser spotted smart ass.
00:17His audience felt they knew him personally.
00:20This is the most exciting I've ever seen London.
00:22I've never seen this many people and I personally have seldom been this excited.
00:26Putting the rapier in deep.
00:28He was utterly unique.
00:30He could write.
00:31He could perform.
00:32He could knock up a poem for you.
00:34There's nothing he couldn't do.
00:35What makes someone go on to become a satirist in two countries?
00:39If we're starting the story of you and how you came to be you, where do we start?
00:44The actual key to him is his absolute visceral loathing of authority.
00:50Remember the headmates were saying to me, we are going to break your spirit.
00:53So I thought, we'll bring it on, son.
00:56He always said his strength was that he came from his audience.
01:01Yeah, g'day.
01:02How you doing alright?
01:03It's the story.
01:04Get out of there.
01:05He said, look, we can actually have fun with who we are.
01:07Kind of like a kick in the head with a gumboot that we always kind of needed.
01:11We don't know how lucky we are, mate.
01:14We don't know how lucky we are.
01:17There was an enormous fuss about it, of course.
01:19Television got bombarded with letters saying that I was a disgrace.
01:22Fred Dagg might have made quite a few people laugh lately, but the Prime Minister is not one of them.
01:28It's almost like he knew them personally too.
01:33Was that you?
01:34Huh?
01:35Must have been me.
01:36Sorry.
01:37What?
01:38Huh?
01:39Must have been me.
01:40Sorry.
01:41Wait.
01:42JayWiana podemos.
01:43Wait a moment.
01:44He wel Ying.
01:46Oh I will.
01:48Do you.
01:50How will this garage?
01:51Is the BillPLE huh Looking.
01:52What are we doing?
01:53Bill?
01:54Yes, that's it.
01:55All right.
01:56Have a used and there's a pump.
01:57A diffic.
01:58Kraudo, you can give away all these stuff.
02:00What do you have?
02:02We've made.
02:03What time does that want?
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