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Dame Edna Everage, often known simply as Dame Edna, is a character created and performed by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, known for her lilac-coloured (" wisteria hue") hair and cat eye glasses ("face furniture"); her favourite flower, the gladiolus ("gladdies"); and her boisterous greeting "Hello, Possums !"
- December 1955, Return Fare
- Barry Humphries
- 2019, Dame Edna Rules The Waves
- Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries AC CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. Humphries's characters brought him international renown.
- 1953–2023
- Character comedy, satire
Apr 22, 2023 · CANBERRA, Australia — Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose...
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Apr 22, 2023 · Australian entertainer Barry Humphries, best known for his comic character Dame Edna Everage, has died aged 89. The star had been in hospital in Sydney after suffering complications following...
Apr 22, 2023 · Humphries best-known creation, Dame Edna Everage, became a huge hit in the 1970s. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images. CNN — The Australian comedian Barry Humphries, best known for his drag...
- Helen Regan
Apr 23, 2023 · Dame Edna Everage joins Barry Manilow at the Sydney Entertainment Centre for a duet of Can’t Smile Without You on May 16, 1994. Ben Rushton. This is a fallacy; or, as she would have had it in her fondness for Mrs Malaprop, a phallus. History was, apparently, not one of the Dame’s many strengths; but then, she always lived for The Moment.
Mar 20, 2012 · March 20, 2012. Dame Edna Everage, the self-proclaimed housewife/megastar, one of the most formidable comedy turns of the twentieth century, is hanging up her diamonté harlequin glasses, her...
