Barry Humphries
Biography: 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barry Humphries, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: February 17, 1934
Deathday: April 22, 2023
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Known For
Finding Nemo
2003-05-30
Finding Nemo
Overview: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
1974-12-12
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
Overview: Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972-10-12
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Overview: Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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Welcome to Woop Woop
1998-08-13
Welcome to Woop Woop
Overview: A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-13
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Mary and Max
2009-04-09
Mary and Max
Overview: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-09
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Shock Treatment
1981-08-21
Shock Treatment
Overview: Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show 'Marriage Maze' with the eccentric Bert Schnick, who suggests Brad be imprisoned in the local mental hospital. Meanwhile, Janet's star potential is skyrocketing but who is her mysterious benefactor, and who exactly are these doctors?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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Immortal Beloved
1994-12-16
Immortal Beloved
Overview: A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-16
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004-12-09
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Overview: The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-09
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978-07-24
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Overview: A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.
Genres: Adventure Music Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-24
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The Leading Man
1996-12-12
The Leading Man
Overview: Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-12
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Da Kath & Kim Code
2005-11-27
Da Kath & Kim Code
Overview: The squabbling mother and daughter, Kath and Kim, embark on an excursion into the unexplored crannies of life at Lagoon Court, Fountain Lakes.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-27
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012-12-12
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Overview: Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1984-12-30
Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Overview: Dame Edna shares her views and answers questions in front of a celebrity audience.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-30
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Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch
Overview: With her familiar greeting of "Welcome possums!" Dame Edna uses her purple possum picker to find three contestants from the all-female audience of her hit game show. The unprepared contestants find a camera crew poised in front of one of their homes ready to invade her bedroom, bathroom and her drawers and cabinets for all the world to see.
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Original Language: en
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Bedazzled
1967-10-30
Bedazzled
Overview: A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-30
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Barry Humphries at the BBC
2023-05-28
Barry Humphries at the BBC
Overview: Alex Jones looks back at the highlights of Barry’s career on a selection of BBC shows, featuring some of Barry’s funniest, rudest and most revealing moments from over the decades.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-28
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The Naked Bunyip
1970-02-02
The Naked Bunyip
Overview: A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976-12-29
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Overview: The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executive Martin Lewis. It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas...
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-29
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982-03-01
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Overview: Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-01
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Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
Percy's Progress
Overview: Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995-12-19
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Overview: A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. “marvelous, engrossing tribute” Allison Pearson, The Observer “painstakingly constructed.. sharp yet sensitive” Victor Lewis-Smith
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-19
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013-08-09
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Overview: A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-09
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Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
2003-12-08
Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers
Overview: Recorded live at the State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre on the 15th of August 2003. Contains the hilarious on-stage antics of Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone.
Genres: Comedy Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-08
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Parkinson at 50
2021-08-28
Parkinson at 50
Overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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Side by Side
1975-04-30
Side by Side
Overview: Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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The Great MacArthy
1975-08-04
The Great MacArthy
Overview: Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-04
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Salvation
2009-03-19
Salvation
Overview: Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian immigrant and prostitute. Seeking better lives, both Barry and Irina find strength in each other as they seek mutual salvation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-19
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
2014-04-13
Jack Irish: Dead Point
Overview: Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-13
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An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1980-12-26
An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Overview: Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-26
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Selling Hitler
1991-06-11
Selling Hitler
Overview: In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-11
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
1988-12-25
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Overview: The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-25
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Les Patterson Saves the World
1987-04-09
Les Patterson Saves the World
Overview: Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle East so he can be tortured to death by the country he insulted. Patterson's arrival is the prefect distract of a coup and he is spared. At a bar Patterson meets a bio weapons scientist who's developed a horrific disease for the KGB whom plan to distribute it to the Pentagon via toilet seats. Patterson of course is far too drunk to understand anything happening and teams up with Dane Edna to save the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-09
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Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
2023-12-23
Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh
Overview: Intimate, upbeat and honest look back at the life and work of Barry Humphries - the legendary comic trailblazer behind Dame Edna Everage and other characters - with incredible tributes from friends.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-23
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Dame Edna Rules The Waves
2019-12-31
Dame Edna Rules The Waves
Overview: Filmed in front of an audience, Dame Edna will host a very exclusive evening with celebrity chat, staffed by some familiar faces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-31
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Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997-10-07
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
Overview: Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, friends, and neighbours must come to terms with Pixie's new "look". Her only chance to return to her normal state is to find the shaman who inflicted the curse on her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-07
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We Are Most Amused
2008-11-15
We Are Most Amused
Overview: We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust. Prince Charles attended the event with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and younger son Prince Harry. The show had a similar format to the Royal Variety Show and showcased a variety of comedy acts. The performance was televised by ITV to the public on 15 November 2008. Robin Williams made his first UK stage appearance in more than 25 years. Tickets were sold to the general public and the event sold out in one hour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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An Audience with Jackie Mason
1990-12-27
An Audience with Jackie Mason
Overview: The great American comedian Jackie Mason entertains a celebrity audience including Bruce Forsyth, Barry Humphries, Henry Cooper and Michael Winner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-27
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Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
2006-03-06
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
Overview: First there was ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, then ‘My Brilliant Career’, and now best of all ‘The Getting of Wisdom’. It is incomparably moving and powerful.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-06
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Blinky Bill the Movie
2015-08-21
Blinky Bill the Movie
Overview: Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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The Getting of Wisdom
1977-08-25
The Getting of Wisdom
Overview: The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. The film is about a young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-25
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An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
1986-04-14
An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna
Overview: Comedy special, filmed in Australia
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-14
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Nicholas Nickleby
2002-12-27
Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
2016-12-31
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
Overview: This documentary showcases a number of new clips which have recently come to light from sketches which were thought to have been lost forever, some not seen for over 50 years, plus rare footage of routines performed in Australia when Cook and Moore made two episodes of their show, Not Only... But Also..., for the country back in 1971. Rob Brydon narrates this very special programme as Pete and Dud fans, friends and colleagues watch these newly discovered clips in the studio for the very first time. The programme includes contributions from Not Only... But Also... producer Dick Clement, Pete and Dud collaborator Barry Humphries, and long-time fans Richard Ayoade, Josie Lawrence, Will Sharpe and Ronnie Wood as they enjoy the sketches and reflect on the career of one of Britain's best-loved comedy partnerships.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-31
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Spice World
1997-12-18
Spice World
Overview: World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-18
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2016-07-01
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Overview: Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-01
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A Toast to Melbourne
1981-01-01
A Toast to Melbourne
Overview: Using archival film, aerial photography, stills, prints and contemporary footage, this documentary presents the city of Melbourne and its lifestyle. Looks at the unique Victorian architecture that transformed Melbourne from a tent city during the Gold Rush to a modern and prosperous city. Captures the vibrant streetscapes, the trams, the elaborate arcades and some of the institutions that cater to Melbourne's elite such as the Georges store and the Melbourne Club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
2015-12-25
Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show
Overview: In this Christmas Day special, Michael presents leading comedians including Dara O Briain, the fabulous Dame Edna Everage, and ventriloquist and winner of America's Got Talent Paul Zerdin. Featuring music superstars Ellie Goulding and Tom Jones plus Michael's own inimitable style of comedy, the show promises a night packed with festive treats and surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-25
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Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
1992-10-08
Joan Rivers: Abroad in London
Overview: Joan delivers her biting tongue to the Queen and her country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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Standing Up for Sunny
2019-06-12
Standing Up for Sunny
Overview: An isolated guy with cerebral palsy is railroaded into helping an unassertive comedienne, and finds love and acceptance through stand-up comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-12
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A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
1984-02-17
A (BBC Arena) Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage
Overview: As much a parody of the typical BBC documentary style as an extravagant curtsy to Dame Edna Everage, Housewife Superstar. The Dame is known mostly through her special broadcast in 1983; in Britain s/he is a household name. This 1984 birthday tribute is a deeply probing investigative profile of one of the world's spookiest celebrities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Not Quite Hollywood
2008-08-28
Not Quite Hollywood
Overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968-09-11
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Overview: Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-11
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1984-10-08
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Overview: Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-08
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Kath & Kimderella
2012-09-06
Kath & Kimderella
Overview: Kath & Kim turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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Napoleon
1995-06-30
Napoleon
Overview: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Howling III: The Marsupials
1987-05-15
Howling III: The Marsupials
Overview: A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-15
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Making Mary and Max
2009-10-21
Making Mary and Max
Overview: Comedic behind-the-scenes film for the production of Mary and Max, originally released as webisodes.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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It Started with Swap Shop
2006-12-28
It Started with Swap Shop
Overview: Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and Maggie Philbin reunite for a one-off edition of the Saturday morning classic Swap Shop to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-28
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The Rocky Horror Treatment
1981-02-04
The Rocky Horror Treatment
Overview: A 1981 documentary looking at the Cult following of the Rocky Horror show and introducing the sequel "Shock Treatment".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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Show of Titles
2021-06-13
Show of Titles
Overview: An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-13
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