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Barry Humphries

    John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, satirist, and artist, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. His work is characterized by sharp satire and Dadaist humor, through which he commented on social and cultural phenomena. In addition to writing and acting, he also engaged in painting and theater, demonstrating his versatility.

    Mein schrilles Leben
    Women In The Background
    Punch Lines
    Handling Edna
    More Please. An Autobiography
    More Please
    • 2016

      More Please

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the make-up and glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' international stardom and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before.

      More Please
    • 2011

      Handling Edna

      • 376 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The real story behind Dame Edna, the international superstar!Written by the legendary Barry Humphries himself'Full of the hilarious innuendo that we love' Woman's Weekly

      Handling Edna
    • 1997
    • 1993

      Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished his biographers with half-truths and fiction, but now he has written his own account of his life. He tells of his schooldays, his Australian adolescence, his indiscretions, his renunciations and his appetites.

      More Please. An Autobiography
    • 1991

      Punch Lines

      150 Years of Humorous Writing in Punch

      • 372 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Doran, Amanda-Jane, Punchlines - 150 years of humorous writing in Punch. London, HarperCollins, 1991. 26cm. XII, 371 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes work by authors / comedians such as: John Bentjemen / Mary Dunn / Graham Greene / Melvyn bragg / Stevie Smith / William Boyd / Robert Graves / etc.

      Punch Lines