Hollywood star Russell Crowe was among the prominent Australians who gathered to farewell esteemed broadcaster John Laws and celebrate his ability to connect with the ordinary person.

Laws, one of Australia’s most influential and controversial radio hosts, whose career spanned seven decades, was farewelled at a state funeral after dying peacefully on November 9, aged 90.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Russell Crowe’s hilarious goodbye at stirring funeral for John Laws.

His close friend Crowe headlined an impressive list of mourners, with prominent leaders including former prime minister John Howard, renegade former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce and NSW Premier Chris Minns among those at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney .

Fellow broadcasters Richard Wilkins and Ben Fordham, singer Marci

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