The most significant comedian since Chaplin?

He could not have enough of it; perhaps that is why he called his award winning first autobiography "More, Please"

Beside having been a brilliant entertainer, Humphries was also an incredibly deep, wise and broadly educated person who made people cry with laughter because the Dr Humphries in him knew well that laughter is indeed the best medicine.

He would sometimes wake up during the night laughing his head off at his own jokes.

He found those funnier than anyone else's.

And so did many other people.

Humphries saw life as a joke, which if you get, you laugh.

He spent a lifetime on helping us to get the joke.

He knew that life was tragicomic.

And he did everything in his power to bring out the comic from the tragic.