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Barry Humphries


Born
in Camberwell, Melbourne, Australia
February 17, 1934

Died
April 22, 2023


John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's. He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. ...more

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My Life as Me
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Handling Edna
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More Please: An Autobiography
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Women in the Background
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Bizarre
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Complete Barry McKenzie
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“We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.”
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“The best jokes are often only understood by one other person.”
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