Barry Humphries
- Australian
- Actor, writer, comedian, composer and satirist
Press clippings Page 7
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review
Some were trepidatious about this belated big-screen outing for the fashionista sitcom. In fact, post-referendum, the timing couldn't be better ... and neither could Joanna Lumley.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The movie - bolly good show!
The jokes spring out at you from our crumpled old friends, sharp and fresh and pleasingly tasteless.
Libby Purves, Daily Mail, 30th June 2016Review - Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
BBC comedy makes a wobbly transfer to the big screen but its two delicious lead performances keep the comedy fizzing along.
Jason Solomons, Reuters, 30th June 2016'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie': Review
"All I ever wanted was not to be fat and old!" cries PR guru and bad gran Edina Monsoon, bewailing the time when "the zeitgeist used to run right through me". As her best friend Patsy injects herself with Botox, flips through Tinder and quaffs Chanel No 5 because they've run out of Bolly, it's clear that writer/star Jennifer Saunders hasn't lost her touch over the quarter century since these characters were first conceived for TV.
Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily, 30th June 2016Barry Humphries to present An OAP's Guide To Britain
Barry Humphries, the actor behind the character Dame Edna Everage, is to present a Channel 4 series called An OAP's Guide To Britain.
British Comedy Guide, 1st April 2016Why Barry Humphries isn't afraid to cross the line
The actor, famous for portraying the hilarious Dame Edna Everage, knows what it takes to survive as a housewife superstar.
Stephen Daw, Radio Times, 13th January 2016Anne Edmonds, comedy review
Edmonds' tragi-comic portraits evoke both Victoria Wood and Barry Humphries and while there's not always belly laugh humour, her images linger, says Bruce Dessau.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 7th January 2016Barry Humphries: BBC insisted I mock Cameron as well
Barry Humphries, the Australian comedian best known for playing Dame Edna Everage, has mocked the BBC for refusing to let him make jokes about Jeremy Corbyn without also ridiculing David Cameron.
Jasper Jackson, The Guardian, 5th January 2016Bristol hosts Barry Humphries' final UK performance
It was an event which would have made Bristol the envy of the country. An audience in the city last night became part of comedy history when it laughed its way through Barry Humphries' final performance on British soil.
Marc Rath, The Bristol Post, 18th March 2014Review: Barry Humphries
Apart from appearances in film clips, Barry's more boisterous alto egos, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, were nowhere to be seen as he drew the audience closer and closer with a series of far more gently told reminicents of his long and highly successful career.
The Bristol Post, 18th March 2014