SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Elton John, Rupert Murdoch and King Charles III paid tribute to Australian comedian Barry Humphries, whose character Dame Edna Everage earned him plaudits as one of the ...

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 into ...

She’s Australian royalty, a major player on the world stage, a self-described “gigastar”. But our magical mauve-haired Dame Edna Everage insists that at heart she remains an immensely humble woman ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by An Appraisal Audiences were eager to humbly suffer the stinging quips tossed out by the towering figure that was Barry Humphries’s creation. By Ben ...

Dame Edna Everage was to become an institution in Humphries’ adopted country (AP) Barry Humphries brought from Australia a biting humour that tied in with Britain’s 1960s satire boom. His “housewife ...

Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer. By Margalit Fox Oh, Possums, Dame Edna is no more. To be ...

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It's not too often a true dame comes to Boston. But when Dame Edna arrives in town, one must pay tribute. "I'm a very approachable person. All you need to do is curtsey," says Dame Edna, comfortably ...