The Man Inside Dame Edna

Davee, you lovely, vivid little thing, where do you live? Wollongong, Australia's top comedian Barry Humphries is best known for his mocking creation, Dame Edna, but there are some nice houses, there aren't any, you live in it, any one of them needs everyone, but she's not the one all. story throughout the '60s, its shows featured a whole cast of characters, from a dropout surfer to a sleazy union leader in the mid-'70s, although Humphries had found the three characters with which to conquer the world Edna, Grandpa's sandstone, to make me if I may to meet me and political incorrectness Grandpa Celeste Patterson my name is Miss Planet Earth we track so there are two an exclusive Melbourne bar her relationship with Humphries like so many other things about the comedian is shady I've only met Barry Humphries about twice in my life and that was twice too many he's up there himself and I'm missing the point he's not my type and he's not a good A-list rep that's all I'm trying to say not saying more less Patterson is the most likable character no story is too dirty no gesture too lewd no idea too racist that he can't articulate it with his special kind of joy boy a lizard is vulgarity on roller skates oh there's a stone faced old Fela sitting around here oh she has a success in life half sucks mango ladies in yellow nothing personal ma'am I assure you Celeste Patterson is barry humphries rants against political vanity and a certain type of Australian masculinity we were invited to a drinks party at the Australian embassy or in the Australian embassy The Consul in London and Barry got there and the Consul was getting drinks out of the fridge.

I could see him very much looking at him with his burning eyes and I thought it was Barry watching. He seems to be very interested in this guy he was observing. He was like a hawk all night and then the next thing I saw was Patterson showing up. Listen. I was born as I was born. He was worried when he was a child. Holly. I don't think I told you this. I was worried. It was a little misshapen there in the wedding tackle area, but you never complained, didn't it, Holly and I go way back? You said last night in my remember Liz, you go back a long time.

Liz is pretty close to the real thing. There are a number of Australian editors exactly like Liz Patterson, worse, much worse, there was a superstition and then Australia had no culture, but my point was that we have a culture that comes from ourselves. I often feel embarrassed and it is very raw but I have met so many Australians like Les Patterson that I recognized the truth in the character there were even questions raised in the Australian Parliament, should Les Patterson or Barry Humphries really be allowed to feature less Patterson in abroad? Far East and I have little friends there of the opposite sex and I have a very nice common man.

I am very careful, although I have never learned anything that has lasted long. It's more than a caricature. one less third dimension that comes from within Humphries himself, he does all the things I try not to do, he smokes, for example, and is woefully promiscuous or I wish he weren't a research assistant, he is safe in his company but strangely attractive for women and then there's his penchant for drinking, something Humphries knows more about. There was a period when he drank so much that it seemed like he couldn't recover as a human being, much less as an artist.

Once again, it's fair to say that Berry's career was going down the toilet. He had, yes, a big drinking problem, of which he makes no secret that my addiction to alcohol was at one point, in the late 1960s, a problem that threatened my life, a house, no doubt, serious health. . problem and of course it affected all my relationships he said my marriage collapsed it's really a direct result of this uh they are my drink down today it's not fishing I interviewed a dizzy frog AK when you need to be away today less it's the opposite of everything Humphries Appreciate, but it's their old demons that keep yours alive, look, when you go to the dry cleaners or give them, you have to tell them what the stains are, it helps them, right?

I just write a little bit of paper and give them a cross gasp you look at it when I leave the store they usually say look it's vomit sperm blood if you know her I'll tell her a little about everything ah solez and Dame Edna let Humphreys get away from the comedy, murder, rampant sexism, casual racism, and mocking cruelty are obviously not his flaws, but theirs.