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Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

Barry Humphries

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
BARRY HUMPHRIES

Comedian Fate Seriously Taken Terrible
I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don’t feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It’s worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.
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Comedian People Thinking
If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.
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Explain Give Up might Satire
I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.
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Athletic Contemporaries Coronary Golf Occlusion
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one’s mother.
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Mother Night Party
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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Funny Laughing Priceless
He’s very, very well-known. I’d say he’s world-famous in Melbourne.
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Known Luck Well World
I’ve decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don’t, if you put them first, they never thank you. You’ll never get a word of thanks from them.
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First Lasts Secret
If you can’t laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
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Century Joke Laughing Missing
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn’t so bad. BO chic it should be called.
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Bad Chic Little People Unhygienic
Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
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Beautiful Men Secretary Sex Thing
Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that’s only a recent development.
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Country Funny Humor
I love Australia – I think.
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Country Emotion Love Thinking
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Country Sheep Thinking
It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.
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Fun Needs Together
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
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Humor Laughing Memorable

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

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