From Ricky Gervais, to the Prime Minister, tributes are flowing for entertainer Barry Humphries, best known for his alter ego Dame Edna Everage, after his death in a Sydney hospital aged 89.
Australian accents if we can. because we ve always felt, with our accents, rather inferior, you see, to our english cousins. as indeed we are. the real barry humphries was an art lover, a painter, a collector of rare books, polite, a loyalfriend. the opposite of another of his characters. and i have the honour to be the australian cultural attache. how are you, sirjohn? les patterson. barry. g day. but he and sir les did have one thing in common drink. it took a divorce and a spell in hospital to convince him to give up the booze in 1971. i had such a wonderful trip overseas, you know. but throughout his life he always had edna. from her beginnings as a mousy parody of the suburban melbourne values he d escaped. still, i dare say in a week or so i will have my australian accent back again!
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I am weightless. listen, you could do with losing a little. success has gone to yourjowls! you re being very, very cruel! for more than 50 years, she took pleasure in saying the unsayable. i ve had a little work done, but. have you? not quite as much as some! laughter and applause no. no, you are still recognisable, that s what i. laughter she was so familiar that it was easy to forget that behind the glasses and frocks was a man called barry humphries. that s me standing outside. oh, one of the big clocks they ve got. he arrived in britain in 1959, an australian comedian with a devilish delight in satirising the people he d grown up with. most of us who go to england try to get rid of our