Profiles

Fri 17 March 2006 12:31pm by
Filed under: Culture, Ranting 

So the other week I opened up the Good Weekend A2 (Saturday newspaper colour magazine). I ask you, does the world really need another profile of Barry Humphries?

I’m not asking for him to go and die or anything, and I find Dame Edna as amusing as the next person, but this continuing fascination for the baby-boomers is somewhat frustrating when so many other younger talented people aren’t getting a look-in.

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6 comments on Profiles

  1. Pete on Fri, 17th Mar 2006 8:15 pm

    2. good grief Barry Humphries, my parents thought he was so funny when we lived in Australia. He enjoyed a brush with fame here in England too for a while, but I didn’t know he was even still alive.

    Never found him that funny myself.

  2. Peter on Fri, 17th Mar 2006 8:55 pm

    3. Maybe, like talkback radio, the newspaper-reading population is greying?

  3. victor on Sat, 18th Mar 2006 1:52 am

    4. I think you are absolutely correct. It may be one of the reason….hope to see some more similar stuff.

  4. Andrew on Sat, 18th Mar 2006 2:12 am

    5. You X gen people will get you turn, if you have the stomach for it. Allow us to indulge ourselves. If you are a bit annoyed at our indulgences, I undertand. It does seem that we are a bit omnipresent. But you know full well, newspaper, readership, target audience. Humphries is always interesting becaue of his sexual ambiguity. Maybe finally we will read something that proves one way or the other. After seeing his ex wife on Australian Story tv, perhaps he may have been driven to jump the fence. It couldn’t be much worse than being married to her.

  5. Debbie on Mon, 20th Mar 2006 11:21 pm

    6. Can’t stand Barry Humphries or any of his alter egos – especially Dame Edna and Les Patterson. I think he is totally grose and disgusting and I really wish he would just go away!

  6. TimeCube Les Patterson on Sun, 2nd Apr 2006 3:57 pm

    7. Yep Barry Humprhies is usually pretty risque in his humour. Damn one wonders how different he really is to TV shows like “Pizza”, of the somewhat crude variety of humour.

    [Lengthy off-topic thing about TimeCube deleted]