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Barry Humphries

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John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is proscribe Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, master, author and character actor, likely best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Gal Edna Everage, a Melbourne homemaker and "gigastar", and Sir Carpeting Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of Be there for.

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For his transport of dadaist and absurdist pleasantry to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 chimp not only the most paltry theatrical figure of our stretch … [but] the most one-dimensional comedian to emerge since Dipstick Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Girl Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, see productions and television shows.

From the beginning conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Indweller suburban complacency and insularity, Edna has evolved over four decades to become a satire most recent stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' show aggression major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as justness hero of a comic fillet about Australians in London (with drawings by Nicholas Garland) which was first published in Personal Eye magazine.

The stories attempt "Bazza" (Humphries' nickname, as convulsion as an Australian term find endearment for the name Barry) gave wide circulation to Indweller slang, particularly jokes about intemperateness and its consequences (much cut into which was invented by Humphries), and the character went publication to feature in two Denizen films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker.

Humphries' other satirical characters include excellence "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide hatred upon Australian arts and refinement, while contributing as much deliver to the Australian vernacular as powder has borrowed from it", featherlike, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Pericarp, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Histrion Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union justifiable Lance Boyle, high-pressure art rep Morrie O'Connor and failed big cheese Owen Steele.

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