Saturday, 5 August 2006

ROTFLMAO

On one of my many procrastination trips to Wikipedia I stumbled across this prank that Barry Humphries liked to perform in his younger days:
This involved carrying a tin of condensed soup onto an aircraft, which he would then surreptitiously empty into an air-sickness bag. At the appropriate point in the flight, he would pretend to vomit loudly and violently into the bag. Then, to the horror of passengers and crew, he would proceed to eat the contents.
I cacked myself laughing when I read that!

I'm not so keen on Dame Edna, and I understand why most people are turned-off by Humphries's demenour, but that prank is just so funny that I had to share it!

1 comment:

Steffan said...

Would you like to know where that came from?

"The adventures of Barry McKenzie" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0068173/) did alot of things that people hadn't done in movies before then, including a scene where Barry (I think) throws up all over another character. Sure enough, it was Campbell's soup used as the chunder. Can you tell I haven't seen the movie? Barry Crocker (playing Barry McKenzie) said in an interview that he expressed worry to Barry Humphries at the opening screening that the audience wouldn't stand for something like that on the screen but sure enough the only thing riotous about their reaction was their laughter.