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Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Lilith7 - 21-04-2023
They're saying stable now. Or not, who knows.
Love the purple hair.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/barry-humphries-australian-comedian-hospitalised-in-sydney/923ad96d-f237-42de-a46e-6034edaa4a30
"Australian comedic legend Barry Humphries is in a stable condition in hospital, despite earlier reports he was "unresponsive".
A spokesperson for St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney confirmed to 9News the comedian is stable and said any claims he was unresponsive are "untrue".
The 89-year-old performer, best known for his character Dame Edna Everage, was hospitalised earlier this week due to complications from hip surgery.
"I spoke to the person who has been appointed by the family as their mouthpiece and their voice, and she has been given no update as far as she's concerned," he said.
"I hope to hell that those stories are wrong.
"But obviously, he is an 89-year-old man, he's not well.
Wilkins said Humphries' health "took a turn" this week.
"I have spoken to a few people close to Barry in the last couple of hours," Wilkins said on Wednesday morning.
"One of his very close friends and colleagues said that he spoke to him a couple of days ago and that he was in good spirits and in good shape.
"However, it appears that in the last little while, Barry has taken a turn for the worst and is back in hospital."
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Olive - 21-04-2023
There is presently a wonderful abundance of BH clips on Youtube. My favourites usually involve Sir Les Patterson.
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Lilith7 - 21-04-2023
(21-04-2023, 07:05 PM)Olive Wrote: There is presently a wonderful abundance of BH clips on Youtube. My favourites usually involve Sir Les Patterson.
He's really good value, always has been.
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Kenj - 21-04-2023
(21-04-2023, 07:13 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:(21-04-2023, 07:05 PM)Olive Wrote: There is presently a wonderful abundance of BH clips on Youtube. My favourites usually involve Sir Les Patterson.
He's really good value, always has been.
Cultural Attache to the Court of St James?
Funneeeee
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - nzoomed - 22-04-2023
Who remembers the show Neighbourhood Watch?
It was hilarious.
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - zippity - 22-04-2023
He never did it for me
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - harm_less - 23-04-2023
RIP Barry/Edna https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/apr/22/barry-humphries-dies-australian-comedian-death-dead-dame-edna-everage-sir-les-patterson
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - zqwerty - 23-04-2023
Barry Humphries: “It’s so much easier to shock people these days,” he told the Guardian in 2018. “I find it extremely provocative and therefore inspiring to find myself in a society that is so prudish when it thinks it’s being liberal. It’s ridiculous.”
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Kenj - 23-04-2023
Where's our Gladioli icon?
RIP Barry, you funny man!
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Lilith7 - 23-04-2023
Good bye, Head Possum & thank you.
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Kenj - 23-04-2023
If this doesn't make you laugh, nothing will. Thanks to NZ City
https://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=375286
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Lilith7 - 23-04-2023
(23-04-2023, 01:30 PM)Kenj Wrote: If this doesn't make you laugh, nothing will. Thanks to NZ City
https://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=375286
"You mustn't judge Australia by the Australians."
—Dame Edna Everage
Humphries once said that, of all his comic creations, Sir Les Patterson was the one that Australians found most offensive — possibly because it was just too close to the bone.
It was also the character Humphries, by his own admission, found the most enjoyable to inhabit.
"No story is too filthy, no gesture too lewd, no idea too racist," he told the 2008 documentary The Man Inside Dame Edna.
"I met Barry Humphries only about twice in my life, and it was two times too many. He's up himself, and I don’t get the point of him."
— Sir Les Patterson
Humphries had intended to skewer the 1950s' white culture he called "the age of Laminex" but came to love and empathise with Sandy Stone as he moved closer in age to his comic creation, who officially died in the 1970s, but came back to the stage and screen as a ghost.
"Over there somewhere is our old Astor 21-inch TV set. We bought it in the 1950s to watch the Melbourne Olympic Games. We saw Lorraine Crapp on that. Several times in black and white."
— Sandy Stone"
Brilliant Kenj, cheers for posting those.
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Lilith7 - 23-04-2023
Dame Edna's memorable moments in 80 seconds
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-65358301
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - TinkandTiff - 27-04-2023
RIP Barry Humphries.
Essentially one of the worlds earliest Drag Queens.
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Lilith7 - 27-04-2023
Found this on FB - obituary by Dame Edna Everage for Barry Humphries
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10229250401622089&set=gm.1189358385080234&idorvanity=248193715863377
RE: Dame Edna/Barry Humphries - Kenj - 27-04-2023
Lovely