{"id":45346,"date":"2011-06-20T07:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T12:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?page_id=45346"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:39:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T12:39:40","slug":"barry-humphries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/the-hobbit\/cast\/barry-humphries\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Humphries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia: <\/em>John Barry Humphries<\/strong>,\u00a0AO<\/a>,\u00a0CBE<\/a> (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian,\u00a0satirist<\/a>,\u00a0dadaist<\/a>, artist, author andcharacter actor<\/a>, best known for his on-stage and television\u00a0alter egos<\/a> Dame Edna Everage<\/a>, a Melbourne housewife and “gigastar”, and\u00a0Sir Les Patterson<\/a>, Australia’s foul-mouthed\u00a0cultural attach\u00e9<\/a> to the\u00a0Court of St. James’s<\/a>. He is 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\u00a0absurdist<\/a> humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only\u00a0the most significant theatrical figure of our time \u2026 [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since\u00a0Charlie Chaplin<\/a><\/em>.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Humphries’ characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy\u00a0Moonee Ponds<\/a> housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna has 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\u00a0bloke<\/a> Barry McKenzie<\/a><\/em>, who originated as the hero of a\u00a0comic strip<\/a> about Australians in London (with drawings by\u00a0Nicholas Garland<\/a>) which was first published in\u00a0Private Eye<\/a><\/em>magazine. The stories about “Bazza” (Humphries’ nickname, as well as an Australian\u00a0term of endearment<\/a> 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\u00a0Barry Crocker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Humphries’ other satirical characters include the “priapic<\/a> and inebriated cultural attach\u00e9” 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”\u00a0Sandy Stone<\/a>, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa,\u00a0Paddington<\/a> socialist<\/a> academic Neil Singleton, sleazy\u00a0trade union<\/a> official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O’Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.<\/p>\n

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