More Please: An Autobiography

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As his father's building business prospered, Humphries was sent to Melbourne Grammar School where he spurned sport, detested mathematics, shirked cadets "on the basis of conscientious objection" and matriculated with strong results in English and art.

Humphries was a prominent art collector who, as a result of his three divorces, bought many of his favourite paintings four times. In the UK he made two highly successful series of his comedy talk show The Dame Edna Experience for London Weekend Television. In 1957 Humphries moved to Sydney and joined Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre, which became Australia's leading venue for revue and satirical comedy over the next decade. Humphries died following complications from hip surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst, Sydney, on 22 April 2023. The book version of the comic strip, published in the late 1960s, was for some time banned by the Australian government, because it "relied on indecency for its humour.Educated first at Camberwell Grammar School, Humphries was awarded a place in the school's gallery of achievement. Humphries' character, Sandy Stone, was an elderly Australian man, either single or married with a daughter who died as a child. Barry Humphries's name stripped from Melbourne comedy festival award after transgender controversy". In 2000 Humphries took his Dame Edna: The Royal Tour show to North America winning the inaugural Special Tony Award for a Live Theatrical Event in 2000 and won two National Broadway Theatre Awards for "Best Play" and for "Best Actor" in 2001.

The original and classic memoir from legendary comedian Barry Humphries, now reissued with a brand new cover. Bazza Comes into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia's first working-class hero—with learned and scholarly appendices and a new enlarged glossary. Humphries enjoyed avant-garde music and was a patron of, among others, the French composer Jean-Michel Damase and the Melba Foundation in Australia. This bestselling 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. He finally broke through to widespread critical and audience acclaim in Britain with his 1976 London production Housewife, Superstar!He talks of his life in Melbourne, and deals very unemotionally with his descent into alcoholism during his stage career. His parents finally had him admitted to a private hospital to 'dry out' when, after a particularly heavy binge, he was found battered and unconscious in a gutter.