Barry Humphries

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Australia

Active from

1934

Active to

2023

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Listeners

1,344

Total plays

4,618

John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife, and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to Britain. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. <a href="https://www.last.fm/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in <i>Escherichia coli</i> K-12 using PCR products

   · 2000 · cited 13,984x

2. <scp>CHARMM</scp>: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations

   · 1983 · cited 13,560x

3. Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions

   · 2001 · cited 11,540x

4. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,176x

5. Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure

   · 2003 · cited 10,037x

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Quotes

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

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Barry Humphries July 2001.jpg

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