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	Barry Humphries Discography
		Barry Humphries featured on two tracks: The Ballad of the "Liver" Bird, and a reprise of the song.
		Barry Humphries appears as Edna Everage in soundtrack extracts from the film.
		Barry Humphries is featured on two tracks: The Royal Australian Prostate Foundation, and The Singing Superstar.
	www.cyberonic.net /~atrain/comedy/humph.htm (399 words)

	Back to my roots and other suckers, Barry Humphries - smh.com.au
		From the dapper refinement of Barry Humphries to the ludicrously grotesque Sir Les Patterson - rarely does the art of the quick-change yield such parodying excess and outlandish wonder.
		Humphries, if only to show his versatility, slips in a new character, the snorting pig-at-the-trough Owen Steele: an amalgam of corporate high-fliers fallen to earth in a stockpile of exploitative blunders.
		With Humphries in the shadows, the Dame's fortunes were sealed.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/06/1057430074172.html (721 words)

	Australia's Culture Portal - Stories - Barry Humphries
		Barry Humphries is first and foremost a comedian and satirist - one of the funniest and most loved performers Australia has produced.
		Barry Humphries was born in suburban Melbourne in 1934.
		Humphries is also regarded as one of the country's best landscape artists and is the author of several plays, books, novels, and autobiographies (he won the J.R. Ackerley prize for biography in 1993).
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/barryhumphries (0 words)

	Australia's Culture Portal - Stories - Barry Humphries
		Barry Humphries is first and foremost a comedian and satirist - one of the funniest and most loved performers Australia has produced.
		Barry Humphries was born in suburban Melbourne in 1934.
		Humphries is also regarded as one of the country's best landscape artists and is the author of several plays, books, novels, and autobiographies (he won the J.R. Ackerley prize for biography in 1993).
	www.acn.net.au /articles/barryhumphries (841 words)

	Barry Humphries
		A mordant commentary on the publicly funded film industry in Australia.
		The Weekly would have been the essential and probably the only regular reading matter for the prototypes of Edna Everage. As Humphries told Leser, "The Weekly was the Gideon's Bible of the period.
		The veracity of the picture that he paints will reflect his capacity to empathise with a wide range of human experience, but that is a very different thing from 'acting out'.
	www.the-rathouse.com /BarryHumphries.html (0 words)

	Barry Humphries: Finding Nemo, call him Bruce
		Barry Humphries seems relieved when the voice on the other end of the phone is that of an Aussie.
		Humphries had no difficulty settling into the comic role of Mrs Crummles, arguing that he is "a character actor so I should be able to play anything", he says, in response to being asked about being cast as a woman for the first time since Edna.
		So that night, Edna said she was suing Barry Humphries for embezzlement and was going to brief a lovely, skinny little lawyer called Ally McBeal." It appears that Kelley enjoyed the show and persuaded Humphries to join the cast in what would emerge as its final season.
	www.femail.com.au /barry_humphries_fiding_nemo.htm (1058 words)

	Barry Humphries - Speakers Biography - Celebrity Speakers Limited
		Barry Humphries is first and foremost a comedian and satirist - one of the funniest and most loved performers Australia has produced.
		Humphries has been a part of our cultural landscape for close to 50 years and has captured the hearts of millions of people from all around the world.
		Barry Humphries was born in suburban Melbourne in 1934.
	www.speakers.co.uk /csaWeb/speaker,BARHUM (241 words)

	Barry Humphries and Friends - Arts Reviews - Arts - Entertainment
		Indeed, Humphries is so razor-sharp and full of energy that it's tempting to think he shares the anti-ageing secrets of his most famous creation.
		The housewife megastar made quite an entrance, descending from on high atop an enormous pair of her trademark diamante-studded glasses, and launching into a witty ditty penned for the occasion of her Golden Jubilee.
		The last glimpse of Edna, wearing a dress shaped like a 50th anniversary cake, didn't close the curtain, and Barry Humphries, when he emerged to take a bow, received the highest possible mark of appreciation: a spontaneous, and thoroughly deserved standing ovation.
	www.theage.com.au /news/arts-reviews/barry-humphries-and-friends/2006/12/21/1166290652689.html (550 words)

	Stage Preview: Dame Edna to visit Pittsburgh with 'the show that cares'
		She has even implied that Humphries is a faintly embarrassing hanger-on whom she has to discipline with an occasional lawsuit over mishandling of funds.
		Such talk doesn't faze Humphries, who acknowledges that Dame Edna is a role he plays, though he's careful to speak of her in the third person.
		Humphries has written two autobiographies, "More Please" and "My Life as Me." Dame Edna has her own autobiography, "My Gorgeous Life" (1992), and there is a biographical study by Peter Coleman, "The Real Barry Humphries," and a fine critical work by John Lahr, "Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization."
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20031005edna1005fnp5.asp (1412 words)

	Barry Humphries, comedian
		Humphries has known Hildegarde since the 70s and in 1999 she was alive and well in New York at the age of 93.
		Barry, the gender bender, is at work in his choice of Noel Coward’s Mad About the Boy and he includes the once banned piece of harmless naughtiness Ain’t It Gorgeous — the old 78 was probably hidden in one of the garages with a pile of yellowing Man magazines.
		Were it not for Barry Humphries and Bill Armstrong the glorious effortless singing of Lucienne Boyer (1901-1983) and the youthfulness of Ann Lenner (1910-1997) would remain lost and abandoned.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage31/Barry-Humphries.html (1689 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barry Humphries was born in the Melbourne suburb Kew in Victoria, Australia.
		Humphries' success is also a tribute to the tremendous skill, style and insight — and the sheer hard work — that he invests in performing two-and-a-half hour shows of entirely original material, laced with ad-libbing, improvisation and audience participation segments.
		The talk show format provided a perfect outlet for Humphries' rapier wit and his legendary ability to ad-lib, and it enabled Edna to draw on a wide and appreciative pool of fans among fellow actors and comedians, with scores of top-rank stars lining up to be lampooned on her shows.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Barry_Humphries (3795 words)

	Life's No Drag for Barry Humphries
		Barry Humphries seems relieved when the voice on the other end of the phone is that of an Aussie.
		Humphries had no difficulty settling into the comic role of Mrs Crummles, arguing that he is "a character actor so I should be able to play anything", he says, in response to being asked about being cast as a woman for the first time since Edna.
		Humphries loved the experience "of working with that fine group of players" and it gave him a taste, he adds, "of working with other actors after the comparative solitariness of my job." Yet Edna continues to work hard.
	www.girl.com.au /barry_humphries_fiding_nemo.htm (971 words)

	The Prince of Wales - HRH attends a gala concert to mark 100 years since the birth of Sir John Betjeman
		The gala concert, hosted by Barry Humphries, was the culmination of a series of events to mark the centenary of the poet's birth.
		Comic Barry Humphries was included in the programme alongside a dramatic choral performance from the choir of St Paul‘s Cathedral - a tribute to the poet‘s love of churches.
		Barry Humphries and Joanna Lumley, who are also Patrons of Sane, revealed that the gala had raised more than £100,000 for the charity.
	www.princeofwales.gov.uk /newsandgallery/news/hrh_attends_a_gala_concert_to_mark_100_years_since_the_birth_829.html (692 words)

	Barry Humphries Discography
		Barry Humphries featured on two tracks: The Ballad of the "Liver" Bird, and a reprise of the song.
		Barry Humphries appears as Edna Everage in soundtrack extracts from the film.
		Barry Humphries is featured on two tracks: The Royal Australian Prostate Foundation, and The Singing Superstar.
	www.cyberonic.com /~atrain/comedy/humph.htm (399 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Humphries maintains a palpable distance from the doughty and malicious "but in a caring way" character.
		In that sketch, Humphries presented Edna as a frumpy, pompous suburbanite more house-proud than hospitable, suggesting that her son "would be tickled to death if you could let us have a real Red Indian" when asked what nationality of athlete she prefers.
		Humphries' father was a homebuilder who piled the family into the car for painfully slow Sunday drives touring new suburban developments.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/feat/archives/2006/01/22/2003290272 (1179 words)

	MILESAGO - People - Barry Humphries
		Dr. Barry Humphries is one of the most famous and successful Australians of his era, and a man of many and impressive accomplishments.
		Barry Humphries was born on 17 February 1934 in Kew, Melbourne.
		Although Humphries himself downplays it, many have speculated that the excesses of his perpetually sozzled Les Patterson are to some extent reflective by his own battles with the bottle.
	www.milesago.com /People/humphries-barry.htm (2736 words)

	Barry Humphries / Nicholas Nickleby
		Humphries had no difficulty settling into the comic role of Mrs Crummles, arguing that he is "a character actor so I should be able to play anything", he says, in response to being asked about being cast as a woman for the first time since Edna.
		So that night, Edna said she was suing Barry Humphries for embezzlement and was going to brief a lovely, skinny little lawyer called Ally McBeal." It appears that Kelley enjoyed the show and persuaded Humphries to join the cast in what would emerge as its final season.
		Humphries loved the experience "of working with that fine group of players" and it gave him a taste, he adds, "of working with other actors after the comparative solitariness of my job." Yet Edna continues to work hard.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Profiles/Articles/BHumphries/BHumphries.html (804 words)

	PictureAustralia - Barry Humphries
		Barry Humphries AO (b.1934) is an actor and writer.
		Clifton Pugh and Barry Humphries became friends in the 50s and Humphries and his partner often went to stay at Pugh's house in the bush near Melbourne.
		Humphries describes the effect on the public as 'gratifyingly subversive'.
	nla.gov.au /nla.cs-pa-HTTP://WWW.PORTRAIT.GOV.AU/ARCHIVE/SEARCH/SEARCH_SHOWDETAILS.CFM?WORK_ID=58 (258 words)

	Barry Humphries's Biography : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
		Born in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, Humphries was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Melbourne University, where he read law, philosophy and fine arts.
		In Sydney, in the late Fifties, Humphries joined the Philip Street Revue Theatre, Australia's first home for intimate revue and satirical comedy which allowed him to develop a cast of character such as grandfatherly Sandy Stone, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle and socialist academic Neil Singleton.
		Humphries has been married four times; his fourth wife Lizzie Spender is the daughter of British poet Sir Stephen Spender.
	www.chortle.co.uk /comics/b/33214/barry_humphries (679 words)

	Barry Humphries : Comedian Profile
		Barry Humphries is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain.
		Humphries is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an "award-winning" author and an accomplished landscape painter.
		Humphries' characters, especially Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows.
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/h/humphries-barry.htm (412 words)

	Barry Humphries - 14 Nov to 10 December 06 at Enjoy Perth!
		Barry Humphries - 14 Nov to 10 December 06
		Barry Humphries is Back with a Vengeance, and will be performing at the Regal Theatre in Subiaco from 14 November to 10 December 2006 (2 extra weeks have been added!
		To celebrate Dame Edna’s 50 years on the stage and coincidentally, his own theatrical jubilee, Barry Humphries is presenting a new show in Australia.
	www.enjoyperth.net /2006/09/barry-humphries-dame-edna-06 (301 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But when it's fueled by creator Barry Humphries' sweetly savage wit and inimitable observations, more of the same can only be a good thing.
		While Edna traditionally occupies only the second act of Humphries' live shows in Australia and Britain, the relative inaccessibility for American auds of the actor's other staple characters leaves it to the dame to fly solo in Stateside engagements.
		What makes the show so outrightly enjoyable despite this slight imbalance is the dizzying alacrity of Humphries' ad libs and his uncanny ("spooky," Edna might say) ability to retain and refer back to the names and personal data mined from a series of randomly selected targets in the audience.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117925609?categoryid=33 (905 words)

	Barry Humphries - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barry Humphries finally realised his long-delayed dream of success in the United...
		Barry Humphries' Flashbacks: The book of the acclaimed TV series.
		Barry Humphries - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Barry Humphries Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/barry-humphries/95166/main?uid=5620&_pgtyp=pdct (92 words)

	Amazon.ca: More Please: Books: Barry Humphries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the positive side, Humphries wonderful use of language is evident in his autobiography.
		For fans of the various immortal creations of Barry Humphries - Dame Edna Everage,Sir Les Patterson et al.- his autobiography seems at first sight to be a no-lose proposition.
		Sadly, once Humphries decamps for England, having become about as 'artistic' as is possible in Australia without being incarcerated, his memory becomes highly selective.
	www.amazon.ca /More-Please-Barry-Humphries/dp/0140154965 (754 words)

	Letter From New York - Bazza Hits Broadway
		I was somewhat surprised to see that Barry Humphries is doing well on Broadway.
		The targets of his attention were the old and overweight and I was shocked that Barry Humphries would stoop to the level of a third grade bully to get a cheap laugh.
		Despite his tendency to "prey on the weak" and his sadism, or maybe because of these traits, Humphries is doing well in the Big Apple.
	www.letterfromnewyork.com /letterfromny107.cfm (1038 words)

	(John) Barry Humphries Online Encyclopedia Article About (John) Barry Humphries (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He created the Barry McKenzie comic strip in Private Eye (1964–73) and wrote the screenplay for The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), in which he also appeared.
		He is best known for his characters Sir Les Patterson and ‘housewife megastar’ Dame Edna Everage, who have frequently appeared on television and in film.
		His books include Barry Humphries' Treasury of Australian Kitsch (1980), Neglected Poems and Other Creatures (1991), two autobiographies More Please (1992) and My Life as Me (2002), and an autobiographical novel Women in the Background (1995).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/034/John-Barry-Humphries.html (228 words)

	Barry Humphries - Latest news, reviews and interviews
		Surviving BEE GEES ROBIN and BARRY GIBB are hoping to reach a whole new audience by recording a catchy TV chat show theme tune.
		BARRY HUMPHRIES' comic creation DAME EDNA EVERAGE has been honoured with the key to the city of Melbourne, Australia.
		Veteran comedian BARRY HUMPHRIES has admitted hitting a photographer who followed him from a cafe in Sydney, Australia.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/artist.nsf/artistnames/barry%20humphries (140 words)

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