Sky News host Caleb Bond says the Melbourne Comedy Festival did “absolutely nothing” to commemorate Australian comedian Barry Humphries.
“This is the same mob that a few years ago renamed the number one award for the Melbourne international comedy
festival from the Barry Award because of comments he’d made about transgender people five odd years ago,” he said.
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