Hailed as a comic genius, Barry Humphries has produced some of the most enduring characters of the last 50 years. With Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson he has turned unadulterated vulgarity, snobbery and pretension into comedy gold. But how did he do this? What mysterious parts of the very private Barry Humphries brought these grotesques to life?
Accompanying Humphries on his 2007 tour of Australia, this programme follows the comedian as he goes back to his roots. As Humphries revisits the streets where he grew up, the public school he attended and the theatrical archives where 50 years of props and costumes are stored, he is transported back to the moments that defined him and his characters.
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