Your not going to wait for a reccomendation before you actually read it?
I thought it was great, till I read about his war crimes in Cambodias killing fields.
Barry Humphries
I have a copy of it, fancy a borrow as it is not properly available in Albion. Mine is a naughty copy, bought under the counter froma comic shoppe.
But not from borders, Mr Moore is being sued for insulting some litigous figure or other.
Just been watching Heroes of Comedy - Barry Humphries.
Most of these are an hour long, this one is an hour an 40 minutes
And I can see why.
What a genius, and I still call Dame Edna 'her' rather than him.
I watched Heroes of Comedy: Barry Humphries too the other night. I simply adore Barry, he's one of the quickest wits there have ever been.
And once more mischevious Mr Griff has made me look schizophrenic.
The scamp.
Such conduct just is not cricket.
Back on topic, Barry Humphries' autobiographies More Please and My Life As Me cannot be recommended too highly. Likewise his quasi-autobiographical novel Women in the Background. He is quite unique, being a wit, dandy, satirist, comedian and prankster of the highest order. He probably would have croaked long ago if he hadn't quit the booze.
Amusing to see Martin Sheen crack up when Dame Edna chides the audience for making a dumb "ooOOOooohh" noise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exDOgpY_cjs
Humphries has always been a brilliant one-off, whatever he's been involved in. His presence nearly made me have a look at 'Chickens'. But that would have meant getting Sky...
BH made himself unpopular, with Qantas (may have been banned for a while) many years ago for his airborne pranks (pretty grotty, details on request if you don't know 'em...)
One of his early Dadaist-inspired pranks was to put rashers of bacon in the socks on display in stores... perhaps the telly in Australia back then was particularly dull.