Talk:Barry Humphries

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:His character, Dame Edna, was inspired by a character from his earlier film The Adventures of Barry Mackenzie, in which he is sent by his aunt, Edna, around Europe to finish his education. This included a lovely scene where Mackenzie (Barry Humphries) finds out that curry is an aphrodisiac and so preparing for his first sexual encounter pours a tin of curry down his trousers - magic.
Aunt Edna in The Adventures of Barry Mackenzie was based on Edna Everage - who by that point had been around for years - not the other way around, and Humphries played Aunt Edna, not Barry (who was played by Barry Crocker).
The bit about the curry might be true - it wouldn't surprise me - but given the number of other errors, I'm not prepared to take the contributor's word for it.
--Paul A 09:15, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments

message: the "Pus in Boots" incident is mentioned in two successive paragraphs, one implying that it took place before he entered college, one implying after.  Can we resolve this? -- Antaeus Feldspar 17:04, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  the "Pus in Boots" incident 

message: Currently Humphries is listed in the List of transgendered people - this is clearly inappropriate. I have proposed deleting him from that list. --ukexpat 14:52, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Proposed? thats a bit slow being BLP and an obvious error it should have gone SatuSuro 01:01, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Transgender" 

message: "... at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, where he held the record as the only solo act to fill the theatre (since it opened in 1663) until controversial left-wing politician George Galloway sold it out in early 2007. " Surely 'I salute you... Saddam' couldn't have done this, what is the source for this? I have had a look at Google new and google and can see nothing about this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.86.243.150 (talk) 09:29, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the 'eck? 

message: I used to have a tape of Dame Edna performing this hilarious 1972 piece, with music by Nigel Butterley.  I remember some fleeting bits of it, particularly references to Evonne Goolagong (as she then was) being named "the Nullarbor Nymph", and someone or other being "frightfully North Shore" and therefore deserving of being taken by sharks rather than having to be bothered with blowflies, which are terribly common.  You get the idea.  It gets a run on ABC Classic FM from time to time, but I can't wait.  I'd really iike to see the text/libretto/poems, but cannot track it/them down anywhere.  Can anyone help?  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 04:54, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: ''First Day Covers''

message: Fan as I am of Australia's fourth greatest living comedian (as he's been described by someone somewhere at some time, I am sure) much of this is written as a hagiography. I mean, yes, the man's a saint, a saint,  as well as apparently having a CBE to go with the self-appointed knighthoods, but "Australia's leading exponent", "part of Australian folklore", "was legendary" and we haven't left the education section yet. (Anyone who says '.. but neither has he' should be spanked.) Can an Australian folklore expert, because ghod knows I'm not one, find a reference or two, yes? 
'London and the 1960s' needs reordering (as was said at the time), but it's the "Humphries' success is a tribute to the tremendous skill, style and insight—and hard work—that he invests in performing two-and-a-half hour shows of entirely original material, laced with ad-libbing, improvisation and audience participation segments" sentence in 'One Man Shows' which has me reaching for the NPOV tag. Or was it stolen from somewhere? Lovingboth (talk) 14:49, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV / citations 

message: Margaret Olley in personal life and patronage?--Senor Freebie (talk) 23:51, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worth mentioning? 

message: At one point, the acticle mentions Oscar Wilde's phonebook. I came across an essay that Humphries wrote for the Spectator in december 2009 that suggests that that particular item is not part of his collection:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5635893/part_3/christmas-notebook.thtml  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.171.172.159 (talk) 14:07, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oscar Wilde's phonebook 

message: Just wanted to say 'thanks' to those who have added material to this article. It's getting better all the time.
On a related note, whilst I appreciate (and have just attempted to address) some of the "constructive criticism" on this talk page, I would in turn like to make these seemingly obvious points:
1. Wikipedia is a collaborative enterprise
2. Most articles are free for anyone to edit
i.e. if you believe something needs correcting, or referencing, or does not sufficiently conform to NPOV guidelines, you're welcome to and free to edit it yourself. I REALLY fail to comprehend either the necessity or the value of this kind of prissy, self-righteous carping. If you don't think something in this article it's up to standard, get off your arse and fix it, instead of complaining without doing anything about it. Arrgh!
Dunks (talk) 10:40, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  thanks 

message: Do his song choices really belong in the article. A lot of people have been on the program. I doubt any of them give a list of tracks. -- 2001:14BB:636:6198:0:0:160E:EB01 (talk) 12:34, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desert Island Discs 

message: Leave any notes on this event here to avoid multiple edits. Frenchfriesaredelicious (talk) 18:05, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Looks like he passed away

message: It should be mentioned that Barry Humphris was raised a Christian & was even a Sunday school teacher Bach in the 1950’s … see link & can somebody please add link to main page. Cheers. 
https://www.qantas.com/travelinsider/en/lifestyle/people/travel-talk-with-barry-humphries.html
Melbourne Grammar School
is a Christian school. 49.185.188.5 (talk) 11:08, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page should mention humphries, Christian faith. 

message: In the infobox, Humphries' birthplace has been changed from Melbourne to the small (probably 10,000 inhabitants in 1934) suburb of Kew, and his death place has been changed from Sydney to the location of the hospital he died in in the Sydney community of Darlinghurst (population 10,600) within Sydney . Is there consensus for these infobox changes? It seems they give much less information to the reader and are more confusing. For instance, in the documentation for :Template:Infobox person, instructions for death place are to use city (not community). Softlavender (talk) 06:33, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: How do you define city though - e.g. City of Kew? If anything I think being more specific is more informative to the readers given how large Sydney and Melbourne are. The population of the locality isn't really relevant - what if he was born in a small country town with a few hundred people? It should just be the most basic geographic unit. GeebaKhap (talk) 06:59, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that's not what the infobox is for, and explicitly contradicts :Template:Infobox person, and is merely puzzling rather than edifying to readers, who do not care what specific hospital the person died in, only the city they were in (and presumably living in) at the time. Infoboxes are to inform quickly, not to confuse or mystify. Softlavender (talk) 07:13, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I came, I read, I was in no way "confused" or "mystified". BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 09:45, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise. I don't find an unfamiliar location confusing or mystifying. If an infobox is to be reduced to things we are already entirely familiar with, then it ceases to inform. If he died in a tiny village of 50 people, presumably there'd be no problem with mentioning its name, so why the inconsistency? It doesn't explicitly contradict the template advice, which is vague, and there's a debate currently going on there to try and find a more workable solution. Bretonbanquet (talk) 11:50, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

text: Likely depends on if you're local to the area of not.  For example, there's a lot of neighborhoods in List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, that locals would call a city, as it's what's listed on the postal address. But then Wikipedia gets quirky by calling everything on the Las Vegas Strip, which most everyone in everyday life refer to as part of "Las Vegas", as instead being in the unincorporated town of Paradise, Nevada.  I'm not sure what standard we use on WP for locations, other than non-locals relying on whether the WP page calls that place a "city" or not. Boroughs of New York City are another example where the listed location goes back and forth.—Bagumba (talk) 09:58, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox locations of birth and death have been changed to very small communities