Barry Humphries Bücher
John Barry Humphries war ein australischer Komiker, Satiriker und Künstler, der vor allem für seine Bühnen- und Fernseh-Alter-Egos Dame Edna Everage und Sir Les Patterson bekannt ist. Sein Werk zeichnet sich durch scharfe Satire und dadaistischen Humor aus, mit dem er gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Phänomene kommentierte. Neben Schreiben und Schauspielerei widmete er sich auch der Malerei und dem Theater und zeigte damit seine Vielseitigkeit.
More Please
- 352 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the make-up and glasses in Barry Humphries' one and only autobiography Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor. This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries' international stardom and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before.
Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished his biographers with half-truths and fiction, but now he has written his own account of his life. He tells of his schooldays, his Australian adolescence, his indiscretions, his renunciations and his appetites.
Handling Edna
- 376 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
The real story behind Dame Edna, the international superstar!Written by the legendary Barry Humphries himself'Full of the hilarious innuendo that we love' Woman's Weekly
Doran, Amanda-Jane, Punchlines - 150 years of humorous writing in Punch. London, HarperCollins, 1991. 26cm. XII, 371 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes work by authors / comedians such as: John Bentjemen / Mary Dunn / Graham Greene / Melvyn bragg / Stevie Smith / William Boyd / Robert Graves / etc.
