Sir Les Patterson  

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Dr Sir Leslie Colin Patterson is a fictional character portrayed by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries. Obese, lecherous and offensive, this farting, belching, nose-picking figure of Rabelaisian excess is an antipodean Falstaff. He is Dame Edna Everage's exact opposite: she is female, refined, Protestant, and from Melbourne; he is male, uncouth, Catholic, and from Sydney.

His humour abounds in such a wide range of racist and sexual stereotypes that it would offend almost anyone who takes it at face value.

  • He boasts of his prowess with his "Girl Friday" and his trips to Bangkok "rub and tug shops"
  • He jokes that "the best place to hide something from a Pom is under a bar of soap".
  • He also resents Australians having died "stopping a bullet for the Pommy Empire."





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