Humphries was born on 17 February 1934 in the suburb of Kew in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Eric Humphries ( né John Albert Eric Humphries), a construction manager, and his wife Louisa Agnes ( née Brown). JSTOR ( March 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it" gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor failed tycoon Owen Steele and archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom – a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally fêted Housewife "Gigastar". Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows.
For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin".
He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, a writer, and a landscape painter. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. John Barry Humphries AO CBE (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist.
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