Australian comedian Barry Humphries, whose alter-ego, the self-aggrandizing Dame Edna Everage, died Saturday, April 22 at age 89. In this “Sunday Morning” profile that originally aired April 4, 2010, Dame Edna talks with Russ Mitchell about her celebrity (which is bigger than anyone else’s), her Broadway appearances, and her “manager” (Humphries), who “resents the fact that I’m so popular.” Humphries, meanwhile, discusses the rather non-PC Edna who, he reflects, is “not very nice really.”
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A genius .RIP.
Brilliant subject; stodgy interviewer.
RIP, Barry Humphries. Dame Edna gave the world so much love and laughter 🥰 The "whispering prostate" bit made me laugh til I cried!
Rest in peace Dame Ed.
Rest in peace 🕊️🙏 Dame Edna 😢
I wish I'd seen him perform in person. May his passing have been peaceful!
Edna’s jewels belong in a museum!
❤Condolences to Family and Friends. Forever In Our Hearts ❤
Rip. Mr. Humphries was a comedy genius and a lovely person.❤❤
R.I.P lovely Dame
Thank you Mr. Humphries for all those laughs when I was kid, you always came on TV when I began to feel hopeless 😢
Rest in Love Dame Edna. 💝
Tennessee Florida and Texas Repugnicans would've banned her
The one thing Dame Edna never managed was sit like a lady…. No lady would have the back of her heel scratching the floor.. it’s the small things that gives it away 😏
Legend! Both of them!
😭
"Possums, am i over-dressed ?" Rest in Peace Barry. ⚘️💖👠👛👚👒
She/He will be missed RIP
Good-bye, dear Possum😌
RIP to the Dame. Drag performers bring joy, don’t let anyone tell you different
Her poor husband “Norm” will forever be remembered as the one and only sufferer of a “prostate murmur”. Brilliant Barry…just brilliant
Do American conservatives "get" that Dame Edna is a drag character?
Funniest man to ever walk the plant…and he's gone! It's hard to accept! RIP.
Dame Edna and Mrs Slocombe of Are You Being Served should have had their own show as dueling sisters.
Her Christmas special from 1987 is hilarious and available on DVD. Brilliant humor. As impromptu as it seems, every second was scripted for a seamless comedy masterpiece. She sang a wonderful Christmas tune called "It's Spooky" which she rhymed with "Matthew, Mark and Lukey!". Bear in mind that DeSantis would have her banned from Florida. Isn't it remarkable in 2023 that the GOP thinks it is OK for ONE MAN to declare what the rest of us can see and do?
A pioneering transvestite! An icon! She will be missed ❤
Australians have a unique take on the world and no one represented that quite like Barry RIP 🇦🇺
Hopefully the Dame will be alive forever on YouTube!
RIP. SHE WAS AMAZING!
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Even in nz. We loved dame edna. We grew up with her.
Truly Devastated he has gone RIP