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Dame Edna Everage, often known simply as Dame Edna, is a character created and performed by late Australian comedian Barry Humphries, known for her lilac-coloured ("wisteria hue") hair and cat eye glasses ("face furniture"); her favourite flower, the gladiolus ("gladdies"); and her boisterous greeting "Hello, Possums!"
John Barry Humphries AC CBE (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He was best known for writing and playing his stage and television characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.
A prominent contributor was one Ithome 32, now known as Barry Humphries, creator of "Edna Everage". Annual 'live' productions of the Children's Session (and Argonauts Club ) were a feature of Royal Shows in each State from 1947.
The Dame Edna Treatment (five episodes, 2007). Barry Humphries was interviewed in Patterson's guise on numerous TV talk shows, including Parkinson (1982), Clive James, Clive Anderson's All Talk (1995), The Panel (2003) and Rove Live (2005). In 1987, Sir Les Patterson was the basis of an ambitious full-length feature film, Les Patterson Saves ...
During the Second World War, she performed with ENSA. Around 1960, she founded a children's dancing school, The Patricia Perry Academy of Dancing, based in Crystal Palace in South London, which she ran for twenty-five years before deciding to return to acting in 1984. At that time, there was another actress named Patricia Perry, so she adopted ...
Emily Perry's appearance on the Dame Edna Experience was well-received; she subsequently became the definitive Madge Allsop, reprising the role in many of Humphries' other TV specials, including One more Audience with Dame Edna Everage (1988), A Night on Mount Edna (1990), Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch (1992), Dame Edna's Hollywood (1993) and ...
that “they” should manage our rights, the way we hire a professional to do our taxes; “they” should run the government, create policy, worry about whether democracy is up and running.
A great documentary series narrated by Humphries with Edna and Sir Les was Flashbacks which was a history of Australia from the 50s to the 80s, done for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and based on Humphries' recolletions. Edna also starred the 1987 comedy film: Les Patterson Saves the World Ozhistory 09:46, 20 October 2010 (UTC)