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Lynn Barber has seen the lot. Across six decades as a celebrity interviewer, she's navigated a death threat*, a stand-off with a star best known for playing an amiable TV doctor and a wild animal at the dinner table.

Lynn Barber has seen the lot. Across six decades as a celebrity interviewer, she's navigated a death threat*, a stand-off with a star best known for playing an amiable TV doctor and a wild animal at the dinner table.

The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’, ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'

Barry Humphries will be remembered at the opening of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival on Wednesday night.

Humphries’ larger than life characters were vehicles to deride and challenge the mind-numbing intellectual climate dominating Australian cultural life in the 1950s and 60s.

I was with Barry at the Rooty Hill RSL club for the very first appearance of the not-yet-knighted Les Patterson, the character he told me he most enjoyed playing because, as a long-time sober person, he could channel all of his many negativities into that dreadful drunkard. When Barry died in April last year, neither he nor I had touched a drink for 53 years

Playbill remembers the actors, directors, playwrights, and other familiar faces of the stage who died this year.

In this Christmas special documentary, a host of top stars reflect on the life and comedy of Barry Humphries - AKA Dame Edna Everage - a trailblazer and a hellraiser whose road to worldwide fame was far from easy. In December 2023, the legendary comic is being honoured with a state memorial at the Sydney

Its a unique event in which the finest performers of the day come together for one night of family-friendly entertainment with top-tier royals as guests of honour.