Australian radio presenter, Ross Stevenson co-wrote the comic television series The Games with John Clarke.
He says Clarke was a genius, and without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest satirist in the english language.
"At the same time, everyone knew him to be such a kind and gentle man, so much so that when he was skewering politicians, they didn't seem to mind, because they knew you were only going to get a square deal from John Clarke".
Ross Stevenson remembers a man he calls a genius
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