Legendary Australian performer Barry Humphries' comments about transgender people just one of the reasons to change comedy award's name: festival director
", sparking criticism from previous Barry winners including the likes of Hannah Gadsby and Zoe Coombs Marr.
"Barry Humphries has been a trailblazer and nothing will take that away from him. But it's time for our awards to be bigger now and represent that."Credit:It's not the only change the festival has seen recently: it's also cut ties with cartoonist Michael Leunig. The artist, who has a contract with this masthead, has in the past.
Gadsby has described Humphries's views as "irrelevant" and separated her Barry Award from the man it was named after when she won in 2017.
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