Australian comedian Barry Humphries, creator of Dame Edna, has died at 89.
Barry Humphries' Dame Edna Everage hosts high tea ahead of her My Gorgeous Life national tour on September 11, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, has died. He was 89.
Humphries had lived in London for decades and returned to native Australia in December for Christmas.newspaper last month that his physiotherapy had been “agony” following his fall and hip replacement. The character of Dame Edna began as a dowdy Mrs. Norm Everage, who first took to the stage in Humphries’ hometown of Melbourne in the mid-1950s. She reflected a postwar suburban inertia and cultural blandness that Humphries found stifling.
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