The New York Times

The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego

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 ...
TheWrap

Barry Humphries, Comedian Known as Dame Edna, Dies at 89

Australian comedian and entertainer Barry Humphries, best known for his character Dame Edna Everage, died April 22. He was 89. Humphries passed in a Sydney hospital following complications with hip ...
Yahoo

Barry Humphries: Outrageous comedian and creator of Dame Edna

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 ...
The New York Times

Barry Humphries (Dame Edna to You, Possums) Is Dead at 89

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 ...
The Washington Post

Barry Humphries, performer who embodied Dame Edna, dies at 89

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 ...