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About the Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
Humphries’s characters brought him international renown. He appeared in numerous stage productions, films and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, the Dame Edna Everage character developed into a satire of stardom – a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted “housewife gigastar”.
Humphries’s other satirical characters included the “priapic and inebriated cultural attache” Sir Les Patterson, who “continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it”; gentle, grandfatherly “returned gentleman” Sandy Stone; iconoclastic 1960s’ underground film-maker Martin Agrippa; Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton; sleazy trade-union official Lance Boyle; high-pressure art salesman Morrie O’Connor; failed tycoon Owen Steele; and archetypal Australian “bloke” Barry McKenzie.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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