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1934–2023 Australia

John Barry Humphries, AC, CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, artist and author.

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Also known as: Dame Edna, Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson

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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

My Life as Me: A Memoir (2002)

Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen* never let any of them live rent-free in his brain.

And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barry Humphries (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.