Less Is More Please

by Barry Humphries

Book by BARRY HUMPHRIES

Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's. He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter.

Reviews

[Jan Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Knowing how much I admire Barry, a friend gave me this little 53 page book she found in a thrift shop. What a delightful gem - a beautifully written reminiscence of childhood in Melbourne and at the extended family 'bush shack'. And I found eleven words whose meanings I had to locate in my dictionary - for example, the knurled knob on his Bakelite radio - 'having small ridges on the surface' - yes, exactly, Barry!
He's not only a comic genius, he's also a damn good writer.

[Gavin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good mix of innocence and retrospective meanness. Like me, his childhood appears to him as a series of fixations (licking the cake mixer, staring at a cement mixer, hushed discussion of lead poisoning from a pencil stab). Would probably be 4* in full.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very pleasant little read. Perfect for a DC Metro ride.

[Sarah Sammis · Rating 3 out of 5]

He was really popular about a decade ago. Haven't really thought about him since then.