Thank you and good bye Dame Edna, RIP

[kenny]

I've loved the Tony-Award winner Dame E. for decades.
I'll miss her.

Dame Edna Everage is a character created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries in 1955.
She had a TV series where she interviewed celebrities.
She had a sly way of disguising an insult as flattery.

I read that many of her best lines were ad libbed on the spot.
With such a quick and brilliant wit, (s)he had to be a genius.

This pic is a good example of flattery (to Australia Sydney Opera House) that is also an insult (to the tackiness of some fashion).

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/07/391265266/after-60-years-of-fabulousness-dame-edna-embarks-on-her-farewell-tour

I think when the Queen participates in your comedy you've pretty much made it.

Here the jab is roasting the Queen for always being the last to arrive.

 

[kenny]

FF to 4:48

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

the possoms are sad

 

[kenny]

Indeed!

Now her all her trademark gladiolus are ... sadiolus.

 

[Dandi]

We've lost an icon. He's just one of those people that I figured would always be around. I can't quite grasp that he's gone yet.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Sir Peter Jackson mourns death of Barry Humphries

'It was our honour to count Barry as a friend and a colleague'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

The 'Kiwi' who was Dame Edna Everage's famous sidekick

A "widow from Palmerston North" was a key role in Barry Humphries' most iconic act - but who played Madge?

www.stuff.co.nz

 

[kenny]

Madge was the perfect sidekick for The Dame E. E..

IMO, she was a much more effective sidekick than was Ed McMahon for Jonny Carson.
It always looked like Ed was struggling too hard for something to say, and this awkwardness kinda dimmed Carson sparkle.

Madge just didn't give a sh!t.
She was the perfect opposite of the excessively-opinionated bulldozer, The Dame!

 

[dk168]

R.I.P..

How many more icons will die before the year is out?

DK

 

[missy]

RIP Barry Humphries.
A true genius and star