Sir Les Patterson is a fictional character portrayed by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries. Supposedly Chairman of the Australian Cheese Board, Minister for the "Yarts" (arts), or more recently Minister for Sport with special responsibility to keep sports rampantly heterosexual and "blokey", he used to hold the post of Australia's cultural attaché to Britain. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Comedy is the use of humor in the form of theater, where it simply referred to a play with a happy ending, in contrast to a tragedy. ... Broadway Poster of Dame Edna Everage John Barry Humphries AO (b. ... A cultural attaché is a diplomat with special responsibility for promoting the culture of his or her homeland. ...

He is Dame Edna Everage's exact opposite: she is female, refined, Protestant, and from Melbourne; he is male, uncouth, Catholic, and from Sydney (Although he often claims to have attended Xavier College, a prestigious Melbourne Catholic school). A farting, belching, nose-picking figure of Dionysiac or Rabelaisian excess who is partly based on Humphries' earlier creation Bazza McKenzie, he allows Humphries to satirize Australia and its culture. Broadway Poster of Dame Edna Dame Edna Everage is a character played by Barry Humphries. ... Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing the splitting away from the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe—a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ... Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... This article is about the Australian city. ... This article is about the school in Australia. ... Several people in history have been known by the name Dionysius: Dionysius of Syracuse, a tyrant Dionysius the Elder, a Greek mythological figure Dionysius the Areopagite, a citizen of Corinth who was converted by Paul of Tarsus Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, identified by some with a Georgian theologist Peter the... François Rabelais (ca. ... Barry McKenzie or Bazza McKenzie is a fictional character originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries for a comic strip in the magazine Private Eye. ... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...

In 2000, a portrait of Barry Humphries as Sir Les Patterson by painter Bill Leak won the Packing Room award at the Archibald Prize. Bill Leak (born 1956) is an Australian political cartoonist who regularly contributes to The Australian newspaper. ... Marcus Willss winning painting in 2006, The Paul Juraszek Monolith, was based on this print by an earlier Marcus, Marchus Gheeraerts The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ...

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Sir Les Patterson Saves the World (1987) 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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