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Chapters: The Chaser Members, Ben Elton, Barry Humphries, Norman Gunston, Andrew Hansen, Chris Taylor, Chas Licciardello, John Clarke, Craig Reucassel, Fred Negro, Charles Firth, Julian Morrow, Wendy Harmer, Alan Fitzgerald, Will Dyson, Dominic Knight, Max Barry, Eddie Perfect, Flacco, Max Gillies, Bryan Dawe, Paul Livingston, Lance Curtis, Peter Wear. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Alan Fitzgerald (born 1935) is an Australian author and journalist, best known for his satire relating to Canberra and Federal politics.Fitzgerald arrived in Canberra in 1964 from Fiji where he had gone to join The Fiji Times, then owned by Pacific Publications, Sydney. However, he was also invited by editor, John Douglas Pringle, to write satirical columns for The Canberra Times , having met Pringle in London some years earlier. He later broadened his opinion pieces , writing for The Sun-Herald , The Sunday Observer , The Sunday Australian , The Bulletin , The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . Alan Fitzgerald also became a correspondent for CBC, Ottawa, in 1974 and as well conducted his own current affairs program for 9 years on Canberra radio station 2CA. He was also a frequent contributor to ABC radio programs and made regular appearances on Channel Seven's breakfast program.In 1967 he was elected to the ACT Advisory Council as a 'True Whig' on a joke platform of promising to do nothing. He was re-elected in 1970 with 21 per cent of the vote, ahead of the Liberal Party candidates and second only to the ALP team. For many years, he was a member and chairman of the ACT Historic Sites and Building Committee (now Heritage Council) that had been established at his initiative to protect historic homesteads and buildings at a time of rapid expansion of Canberra into the surrounding rural area. The Co... ... Read more

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Chapters: Kylie Minogue, Marie Bashir, Geoffrey Rush, Keith Miller, John Howard, John Farnham, Barry Humphries, Gary Ablett, Sr., Quentin Bryce, Karrie Webb, Ron Hamence, Silma Ihram, Mike Rann, Michael Jeffery, Phillip Adams, Nicholas Shehadie, Keith Payne, Geoffrey Blainey, Peter Cosgrove, Phillip Bennett, Angus Houston, Renfrey Potts, Mick Cronin, Alec Campbell, John Baker, Ray Martin, George Piggins, Russ Shalders, Doug Lowe, Edward Kenna, Harry Wells, John Sanderson, Tammin Sursok, Charles Cutler, Peter Gration, Bruce Dawe, Peter Howson, Mem Fox, Chris Barrie, Eric Abetz, David Smith, Donald Dunstan, Brian Pezzutti, Roy Longmore, Bruce Mcdonald, Neil Batt, Tom Lewis, Neville Mcnamara, Peter Tagliaferri, Edmund Capon, Tom Hughes, Peter Casserly, David Stratton, Carla Zampatti, Guy Green, Jack Lockett, Trevor Kaine, Walter Parker, John Stocker, Peter Leahy, Ken Freeman, Helen Hughes, Richard Larkins, Ben Humphreys, Eric Neal, Chris Ritchie, Ralph Slatyer, Peter Dowding, Sue Napier, Peter Shergold, Clem Christesen, Robin Batterham, Michael L'estrange, Marcel Caux, Ken Michael, Nicholas Saunders, Peter Karmel, Edward Smout, Jim Service, Philip Flood, John Avery, Trevor Rowe, Greg Westaway, Malcolm Brooks, Rob Akers, Francis Carroll, Bob Baxt, Warren Pearson, Clive Berghofer, Centenary Medal, Stephen Duckett, Jim Kennan, Peter Mcphee, Harry Moore, Vivian Smith, Graham Gunn, Gilbert Bennion, Colin Brooks, Khalil Eideh, Alfred Parsons. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 542. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Playing statistics to end of end of 1946 season . Miller, in the vertically-striped jumper, playing for St KildaKeith Ross Miller MBE (28 November 1919 11 October 2004) was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely re...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1061737 ... Read more

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Title: No More Please: Barry Humphries and Australian English.
Author: Anne Pender
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 160

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Chapters: Peter Cook, Willie Rushton, Ian Hislop, John Betjeman, Barry Humphries, Victor Lewis-Smith, Paul Foot, Christopher Booker, Auberon Waugh, Gerald Scarfe, Candida Lycett Green, Nigel Dempster, Ralph Steadman, Michael Heath, Francis Wheen, Ray Lowry, Phil Hammond, Craig Brown, Richard Ingrams, Claud Cockburn, Bill Tidy, John Wells, Christopher Logue, Marcus Berkmann, Nicholas Luard, Charles Peattie, Nick Newman, Barry Fantoni, Larry, Wally Fawkes, John Kent, Kevin Woodcock, Martin Honeysett, Nicholas Garland, David Austin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 183. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist 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 is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer 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. His Barry McKenzie comic strips about Australians in London appeared in Private Eye magazine with drawings by Nicholas Garland. 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 it invented by Humphries. Humphries was born and raised in the suburb of Camberwell in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Louisa and Eric Humphries, a construction manager. His grandfather w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=370482 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ben Elton, Barry Humphries, Norman Gunston, John Clarke, Fred Negro, Wendy Harmer, Alan Fitzgerald, Will Dyson, Max Barry, Eddie Perfect, Flacco, Max Gillies, Bryan Dawe, Paul Livingston, Lance Curtis, Peter Wear. Excerpt: John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist 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 is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer 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. His Barry McKenzie comic strips about Australians in London appeared in Private Eye magazine with drawings by Nicholas Garland. 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 it invented by Humphries. Humphries was born and raised in the suburb of Camberwell in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Louisa and Eric Humphries, a construction manager. His grandfather was an immigrant to Australia from Manchester, England. His father was well-to-do and Barry grew up in a "clean, tasteful and modern home" in Camberwell, then one of Melbourne's new 'garden suburbs'. His early home life set the pattern for his eventual stage career his parents bought him everything he wanted, but his father in particular spen... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=370482 ... Read more

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In 1989, the author spent a month in the wings of the Theatre Royal watching Barry Humphries perform as Dame Edna Everage. What emerges in this title is an account of the act and a portrait of the comedian and his art. ... Read more

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So very average
There's a long British tradition of men dressing up as women on the stage going back to Elizabethan times and more recently in the Panto. Of course, Dame Edna and her creator, Barry Humphries, is Australian, but Australian but many of the traditions are the same and certainly the historical heritage is the same.

John Lahr took on the Herculean task of interviewing Barry Humphries for this book but you'll see that the book sports his most famous character's name: Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation. Of the 274 pages of text, maybe forty pages are actually about Humphries. The bulk of the book is filler about waiting for a show to start and older gags and of course Dame Edna's "life."

Barry Humphries' instance on staying in character as Dame Edna for all of his public events makes me think of the San Diego Chicken aka Ted Giannoulas. That damn chicken started as a lame radio advertising campaign (thanks KGO!) and went on to be a piece of San Diego culture that could not be escaped. The chicken ended up being the mascot of the Padres for a while (and pretty much any other venue in San Diego). I remember in junior high there was a lot of hubbub over discovering the Chicken's true identity. It was stupid then and it is stupid in this book. ... Read more

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From the publisher's blurb: "Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', My Life as Me revisits his childhood, his adolescence, his love-hate relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various fascinations - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce - are explored, as are his friendships with comedians, artists and writers such as Spike Milliagan, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, John Betjeman, Stephen Spender and many others.; A master of comic writing, Barry tells us of his privileged youth in suburban Melbourne and, with a disarming candour that he already regrets, describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America. He also shares with us hilarious behind-the-scenes details of his life as creator and personal manager of Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and Dame Edna Everage." ... Read more