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Comedy Is Cancelled, What Does That Say About Us?

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Comedy Is Cancelled, What Does That Say About Us?
Australian actor Barry Humphries, dressed as Dame Edna Everage, speaks to the media ahead of her farewell show "Eat Pray Laugh!" in Sydney on July 5, 2012. Rob Griffith/AP Photo
Graham Young
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If ANZAC Day is secular Australia’s one day of “religious observance,” Barry Humphries might have been one of our only secular patron saints, embodying the culture’s virtues, or at least what we thought were our virtues.

Graham Young
Graham Young
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Graham Young is the executive director of the Australian Institute for Progress. He is the editor and founder of OnlineOpinion.com.au and has conducted qualitative polling on Australian politics since 2001. Mr. Young has contributed to The Australian newspaper, The Australian Financial Review, and is a regular on ABC Radio Brisbane.
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