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John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (17 February 1934 - 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, perhaps 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. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he had appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna had evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' other major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London (with drawings by Nicholas Garland) which was first published in Private Eye magazine. The stories about "Bazza" (Humphries' nickname, as well as an Australian term of endearment for the name Barry) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences (much of which was invented by Humphries), and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker. Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it", gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele. Humphries died following complications from hip surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 22 April 2023.
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for Bruce in Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2: The Revenge of Doom
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Within the timeframe of the 1940s to present day, The toons of the world of Roger Rabbit have faced difficulties staying relevant as for one reason or another, many of the classic cartoons from the first have retired aside from the select few that include Roger, Jessica, Baby Herman and Benny the Cab. Despite having good work as two bit parts aside from miscellaneous work as entertainment at birthday parties and bar mitzvahs. A flashback before the main events of the film reveal the funeral of Eddie Valiant and many of the toons alongside his wife. Dolores and his friend, Lt Santino and some of the toons helped from the days of Valiant and Valiant. Everyone mourns the loss of Eddie. Within a darks and desolate place in Los Angeles, relatives of the Toon Patrol resurrect or make a new version of Doom that plans to destroy the toons by remaking and redoing them with subpar but profitable remakes that will lead to them falling out of favor with the general public and in the process allows him to take his revenge upon Roger and all of the toons for killing him and ruining his plans for the last time. Stay Tooned
