More Please: An Autobiography

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Comedy Performance of the Year, Society of West End Management, London (now known as the Laurence Olivier awards) for A Night with Dame Edna [47] Like her ever-present bunches of gladioli, one of the most popular and distinctive features of Edna's stage and TV appearances was her extravagant wardrobe, with gaudy, custom-made gowns. Her costumes, most of which were created for her by Australian designer Bill Goodwin, routinely incorporated Aussie kitsch icons such as the flag, Australian native animals and flowers, the Sydney Opera House and the boxing kangaroo. Her outlandish spectacles were inspired by the glasses worn by the Melbourne eccentric, actor and dancer Stephanie Deste, as were many other aspects of Dame Edna's personality. [79] [80] [81] [82] By the late 1980s Dame Edna had become an institution, though critics began to complain that Humphries’s subversive talent had sold out to commercialism and “safe” television.

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Even as a chat show host on prime-time television, Dame Edna subverted the rules. Studio guests – Joan Collins, Cher, Larry Hagman, Mel Gibson – included some of the biggest names in showbusiness, accustomed to deferential treatment from sycophantic television lightweights. In 2016, Humphries defended the philosopher and writer Germaine Greer, who described transgender women as “men who believe that they are women and have themselves castrated”. Thompson, Tom (7 September 2013). "Lewis Morley: Eye on the iconic, heart for the home". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 April 2023. Barry fathered daughters Tessa and Emily with second wife Rosalind Tong (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) With horror, when another asked if he had ever considered Alcoholics Anonymous: “I felt soiled and degraded”. (He would later attend AA meetings).In 2003, Humphries voiced the shark Bruce in the Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, using an exaggerated baritone Australian accent. [36] Groves, Don (23 March 2010). "Beresford reflects on his 'colossal mistake' ". SBS. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023 . Retrieved 23 April 2023. Wouldn’t give us any beer because they felt the film displayed their product in a vulgar way. At the time there were commercials being done... in which people in a boat on Sydney Harbour were seen to be sipping Foster’s lager from what looked like liqueur glasses with sort of crooked pinkies, to show it was not just a yobbo’s drink. He writes with wry humour, “A doctor told me that my liver was inflamed and asked me how much I drank. It was a difficult question to answer. Did he mean, for example, before or after breakfast?” How We Met: Barry Humprhies & Jeffrey Archer". The Independent. London. 6 April 2008 . Retrieved 26 April 2010. [ dead link]

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