Barry Humphries, an Australian comedian who created and embodied the lilac-coiffed, cat-eye-bespectacled Dame Edna Everage, a character that began in the 1950s as a satire on suburbia and evolved ...

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 ...

By Margalit Fox Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more. To be unflinchingly precise, Barry Humphries, the Australian-born actor and comic who for almost seven decades brought that divine doyenne of ...

Dame Edna Everage, the bedazzled, 6’3″ in stilettos violet-coiffed “gigastar,” who entertained millions over a seven-decade career on stage and screen, has died, along with her creator ...

The Australian comedian Barry Humphries, best known for his drag character Dame Edna Everage, has died aged 89. ” He was completely himself until the very end, never losing his brilliant ...

But, in the same breath, what better tribute can we pay him than that his greatest creation, Dame Edna Everage, is forever in present tense? Like the indelible comic characters of Dickens or Twain ...

RIP Barry Humphries – one of the greatest ever Australians – and a comic genius who used his exuberant alter egos, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, to say the otherwise unsayable.

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"Hello, Possums!" By Rhett Bartlett Barry Humphries, the Australian entertainer whose gladioli-waving alter ego Dame Edna charmed and roasted celebrities, all with a Cheshire grin, outrageous ...