Category: Barry Humphries

Comedy Is Cancelled, What Does That Say About Us?

April 27, 2023
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Commentary If ANZAC Day is secular Australia’s one day of “religious observance,” Barry Humphries might have been one of our only secular patron saints, embodying the culture’s virtues, or at least what we thought were our virtues. While throwing the Anzacs and Humphries together in one paragraph might seem as surreal as some of his…

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Deceased Comic Genius Would Have Been ‘Cancelled’ Today: TV Host

April 24, 2023
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Comic legend Barry Humphries would have been shouted down and cancelled in the modern entertainment scene says Australian TV host Kerri-Anne Kennerley. The death of the Australian entertainer and household name at the age of 89 on April 22 sparked an outpouring of tributes from at home and around the world. British comedian Ricky Gervais…

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‘Comedy Genius’: Global Tributes for Barry Humphries

April 23, 2023
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The death of Australian entertainer Barry Humphries has sparked an outpouring of tributes for the treasured national icon at home and around the globe. Humphries died on Saturday, aged 89, at St Vincents Hospital in Sydney where he was being treated for complications stemming from hip surgery earlier this year. He was surrounded by his immediate family, including…

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