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Sir Leslie Colin "Les" Patterson, (born 1 April 1942) 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, Roman Catholic and from Sydney. Patterson's 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". ==Character origins== By Humphries' own account, the character of Patterson first appeared in a one-man show that he performed at the St. George leagues club in Sydney in January 1974.〔Humphries, Barry. ''A Nice Night's Entertainment'', pp. 178–83.〕 Appearing in the guise of the boorish, loud-mouthed and uncultured Patterson, Humphries claimed to be that club's own entertainments officer as he introduced the next act, Dame Edna Everage. As Humphries recalled, "I understood later that many members of the audience thought Les was genuinely a club official, which says a lot for his charm and sincerity".〔 Later that same year, the character (by now identified as Australia's cultural attaché to the Far East) was revived in a two-week cabaret appearance that Humphries performed at the Mandarin Hotel in Hong Kong. In Humphries' words, "The English merchant bankers and commodity brokers and Australian accountants there all recognised Les as someone they knew in the Australian diplomatic corps, and took him to their hearts."〔 Patterson went on to play an even larger role in Humphries' next one-man show in London, ''Housewife, Superstar!'' (1976), delivering a lengthy monologue that was included on the original cast album. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir Les Patterson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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