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Barry McKenzie or Bazza McKenzie is a fictional character originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries for a comic strip, written by Humphries and drawn by Nicholas Garland, in the magazine Private Eye. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Nicholas Withycombe Garland (born 1935 is a political cartoonist for the Daily Telegraph. Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical Magazine, edited by Ian Hislop. They were filmed with Barry Crocker as Barry McKenzie. Barry Hugh Crocker OAM (born 4 November 1935, in Geelong Victoria, Australia) is a popular Australian singer with a crooning

He helped popularize Australian slang and culture in Britain, although much of the allegedly Australian slang was created by Humphries himself. Australian English ( AuE, AusE, en-AU) is the form of the English language used in Australia. The Demographics of Australia show it to be one of the most urbanised populations in the world the majority of Australians live on the coast The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

Many of the terms were euphemisms for bodily functions (toilet humour) or sexual allusions. Toilet humour, or scatological humour, is a type of off-colour humour dealing with Defecation, Urination, Flatulence, Vomiting

McKenzie's most memorable euphemism is for the act of vomiting, a technicolour yawn. Others are: parking the tiger, splashing the boots, draining the dragon, shaking hands with the wife's best friend, the one-eyed trouser snake and beating the JBoxer.

Private Eye, the fortnightly British satirical Magazine, has published various books and other material separately from the magazine The Adventures of Barry McKenzie is a 1972 Australian film starring Barry Crocker, telling the story of an Australian ' Yobbo ' on his travels Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Barry McKenzie Holds His Own is the 1974 sequel to the 1972 Australian Comedy Film The Adventures of Barry McKenzie. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.

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