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November 12, 2012

Barry Humphries at National Press Club 1978

Filed under: Uncategorized — tgk1946 @ 10:41 am

From The Power of Speech (25 Years Of The National Press Club)
Edited by Tony Maniaty   Bantam 1989  IBSN 0 947189 28 9

Without any further ado therefore I feel I should throw the meeting open to questions. I, as I say, will not flinch from the most intimate. I am in the land of total disclosure. Nothing is a secret. It’s a country where the venetian blinds lock in the open position. Did not a former Prime Minister, a former speaker at this very table, speak of his wife, his lofty spouse as being good for bed and board? To the astonishment of the more prudish and more decorous amongst us. More recently, I understand, when the Honourable Mr Whitlam was asked to what he and his wife attributed their sexual compatibility he replied, ‘Not Masters and Johnson, sheer Hite.’ I was saving that one for the show but this is a preview. It must go no further.

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