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Dame Edna Everage

December 2023

  • Entertainer Meow Meow performs during the State Memorial Service for Australian comedian and actor Barry Humphries at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. King Charles III has paid tribute to the late Barry Humphries at a state memorial service with a message that recalled the monarch's own apprehension when the comedian's alter ego Dame Edna Everage played a prank on him in a royal box a decade ago. (David Gray/Pool Photo via AP)

    Barry Humphries remembered as an ‘interstellar’ talent at Sydney Opera House memorial service

    ‘He loved to torment his audiences but it was from a place of love’, his son Rupert said of his father

23 April 2023

  • Australian comedian Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna

    ‘Treasured Australian icon’: Barry Humphries remembered as a ‘comic genius’ and ‘legend’

    Tributes have flowed across Australia, with both politicians and entertainers sharing messages praising the late comedian

22 April 2023

  • Barry Humphries

    ‘Simply the greatest’: comedians pay tribute to ‘genius’ Barry Humphries

    Ricky Gervais, Rob Brydon and Matt Lucas among those paying homage to the Dame Edna Everage star who has died aged 89
  • Barry Humphries at the reopening of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, in 2021.

    Barry Humphries obituary

    Entertainer whose outrageous caricatures Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson took the one-man show to new heights

    • Barry Humphries, Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna Everage, dies aged 89

    • Barry Humphries – a life in pictures

    • Barry Humphries was a master of provocation and glorious grotesquerie

March 2022

  • Barry Humphries DSC 2170

    This much I know
    Barry Humphries: ‘Edna is indestructible. She can say things I couldn’t possibly express’

    The comedian, 88, tells Richard Barber how lovely his legs used to look in tights, his alter ego Dame Edna Everage and his brand new tour

April 2020

  • The breakfast dress designed by Stephen Adnitt and worn by Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage

    V&A dishes up a fried breakfast dress for first lockdown design day

    Dame Edna Everage’s wacky gown takes centre stage in online activity day for children

July 2018

  • Jordan Pickford in action for Sunderland in September 2016, up against Romelu Lukaku of Everton.

    Brief letters
    Thank you for the Mackem memories

  • Barry Humphries: ‘It’s so much easier to shock people these days.’

    The G2 interview
    Barry Humphries: ‘I defend to the ultimate my right to give deep and profound offence’

February 2018

  • SZA in the GAP Logo Remix campaign

    The measure
    From glasses on a chain to galantines: this week’s fashion trends

    What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

January 2017

  • Castaway - 1986<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Cannon/Uba/REX/Shutterstock (5879136i) Oliver Reed Castaway - 1986 Director: Nicolas Roeg Cannon/Uba BRITAIN Scene Still

    Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways

    The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic

April 2016

  • Dame Edna Everage

    Dame Edna takes multiple swipes at The Project's Waleed Aly – video

    Dame Edna Everage refers to The Project host Waleed Aly as ‘little Wally’ and calls him a ‘pinko’ during her appearance on the Channel Ten show

January 2016

  • Barry Humphries ... aiming his laser at the outdated beliefs of tedious old men.

    Pass notes
    Barry Humphries: tactless bigot or another satirical creation?

    Dame Edna Everage’s hilariously offensive alter ego is back with an overcooked caricature of rightwing outrage. Just so long as he’s joking ...

October 2015

  • Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson

    Rewatching classic Australian films
    Les Patterson Saves the World rewatched: a spectactular turkey

    Australian cinema is not without its jaw-dropping flops and this messy, misjudged Barry Humphries vehicle was one of them – even with Dame Edna

July 2015

  • Ian Thorpe 2002 by James Houston type C photograph Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Gift of the artist 2002 National Portrait Gallery exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

    Germaine Greer and Ian Thorpe to bare all in Canberra exhibition

    National Portrait Gallery show featuring nude portraits of Ian Thorpe, Billy Slater and Dame Edna will explores issues of identity and personality, says curator

May 2015

  • Barry Humphries

    Barry Humphries: Australia's arts cuts linked to 'fundamental philistinism'

    Back to direct the Adelaide cabaret festival, Humphries has some advice for George Brandis from Sir Les and says he’s still available for 21st birthdays

February 2015

  • Mary Berry, Jennifer Saunders, Dame Edna Everage, Lulu, Joanna Lumley, Sue Perkins and Paul Hollywood in the The Great Comic Relief Bake Off, 2015

    TV and radio blog
    The 2015 Great Comic Relief Bake Off celebrity lineup is cause for celebration

    In the bleak winter TV schedules, there’s nothing quite like watching celebrities being rubbish at baking. And, from Dame Edna Everage, Jennifer Saunders and Victoria Wood to Alexa Chung and Zoella, this time I’ve actually heard of all but one of them

May 2014

  • Humphries and Jacobson

    The Australians who set 60s Britain swinging

    Documentary tells how Clive James, Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries and Robert Hughes, helped spawn Britain's counter-culture
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