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Writer and comedian                          

Selected Works:
Books:

Bizarre. Compilation. London - 1965
Barry Humphries' Book of Innocent Austral Verse. Anthology. Melbourne - 1968
Bazza Pulls It Off!: More Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Melbourne: Sun Books - 1971
The Wonderful World of Barry MacKenzie. With Nicholas Garland; a comic strip - 1971
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own. Photoplay - with Bruce Beresford - 1974
Dame Edna's Coffee Table Book: A guide to gracious living and the finer things of life by one of the first ladies of world theatre. Compendium - 1976.
Les Patterson's Australia - 1978
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. With Nicholas Garland - 1979.
The Sound of Edna: Dame Edna's Family Songbook. With Nick Rowley - 1979.
A Treasury of Australian Kitsch - 1980
A Nice Night's Entertainment: Sketches and Monologues, 1956- - - 1981. A Retrospective. Sydney - 1981
Dame Edna's Bedside Companion. Compendium - 1982
Punch Down Under. London: Robson Books - 1984
The Complete Barry McKenzie - 1988.
Shades of Sandy Stone. Edinburgh - 1989
My Gorgeous Life. As Edna Everage  - 1989.
More Please. Autobiography - 1992.
The Life and Death of Sandy Stone - 1990.
Neglected Poems and Other Creatures - 1991.
Women in the Background. Novel - 1995.
Barry Humphries' Flashbacks: The book of the acclaimed TV series - 1999.
My Life As Me: A Memoir: Autobiography - 2002.

One Man Show:

A Night With Dame Edna - 1979, which won the Society of West End Theatres Award
An Evening's Intercourse With Dame Edna - 1982
Three seasons of Back with a Vengeance - 1987-1988, 2005-2007
Look at Me When I'm Talking to You - 1996
Edna, The Spectacle - 1998
Remember You're Out which toured Australia in 1999.
Back With A Vengeance which toured Australia in 2007

Getting Back To My Roots, And Other Suckers 2003

Has made numerous theatrical tours in Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, and in the Far and Middle East.                          

First wife Bethany Goodman
Second wife Rosalind Tong, two daughters
Third wife Diane Millstead, two sons
Fourth wife Lizzie Spender - 1990 to present

                          

1975 - Douglas Wilkie Medal
1982 - Officer of the Order of Australia for "Services to Theatre" - Queen's Birthday Honours, Australian List.
1993 - J.R. Ackerley prize for his autobiography ‘More, Please’.
1994 - Honorary Doctorate at Griffith University
1997 - Sir Peter Ustinov Award for Comedy presented at the Banff Television Festival
2000 - Special Tony Award for a live theatrical event at the 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
2000 - Special Achievement Award by the Outer Critics Circle for The Royal Tour
2000 - Best Play from the National Broadway Theatre Awards for The Royal Tour
2001 - Centenary Medal
2003 - Honorary Doctorate of Law at his alma mater, University of Melbourne
2007 - Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "services to entertainment" - Queen's Birthday Honours, UK List.