Barry Humphries
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John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (17 February 1934 - 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, perhaps 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. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he had appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna had evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' other major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London (with drawings by Nicholas Garland) which was first published in Private Eye magazine. The stories about "Bazza" (Humphries' nickname, as well as an Australian term of endearment for the name Barry) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences (much of which was invented by Humphries), and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker. Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "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 and failed tycoon Owen Steele. Humphries died following complications from hip surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 22 April 2023.
Filmografi (Rol Aldığı Yapımlar)
Parkinson at 50
Micallef Tonight
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Magical Land of Oz
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Selling Hitler
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
A Night on Mount Edna
The Team: A Season With McLaren
Mary ve Max
QI
RTL Samstag Nacht
QI
Kayıp Balık Nemo
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Hollywood Squares
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Hobbit: Beklenmedik Yolculuk
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Graham Norton Show
We Are Most Amused
Omnibus
Omnibus
Ölümsüz Sevgi
Da Kath & Kim Code
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
An Audience with Jackie Mason
The Man Inside Dame Edna
Boulevard Bio
Single Voices
Parkinson
Saturday Night Live
Nicholas Nickleby
Not Quite Hollywood
Benim Güzel Günlerim
Side by Side
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Ally McBeal
Napoleon
The Tony Danza Show
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Bedazzled
The Osbournes
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
The Dame Edna Treatment
The Dame Edna Experience
A Comedy Roast
Şok Tedavi
Kahraman Şövalye
Welcome to Woop Woop
The South Bank Show
Wogan
The South Bank Show
The Naked Bunyip
The Last Impresario
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Kahraman Koala
The Getting of Wisdom
Kath & Kimderella
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Absolutely Fabulous Filmi
An Audience with...
An Audience with...
The Great MacArthy
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
Standing Up for Sunny
The Wednesday Play
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Süperstar
Salvation
Spice World
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Les Patterson Saves the World
Çığlık III
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Who Do You Think You Are?
The View
The One Show
The One Show
Pebble Mill
Percy's Progress
Making Mary and Max
Little Britain Down Under
Dame Edna's Hollywood
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Q&A
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
A Toast to Melbourne
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
It Started with Swap Shop
The Rocky Horror Treatment
Show of Titles
Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant
Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs
Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway
A Late Lunch With Sir Les
Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
Gaybo Laughs Back
Royal Variety Performance 1984
Le Bain Vorace (Dial P for Plughole)
The Unseen Spike Milligan
Russell Harty
Betjeman and Me
Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford
Brilliant Creatures
I'd Do Anything
A Granny's Guide to the Modern World
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
