Barry Humphries / Dame Edna RIP

[Aladdin]

Barry Humphries: Dame Edna Everage comedian dies at 89

Tributes paid to "savagely funny" Australian entertainer whose characters were loved by millions.

www.bbc.com

He would have made such fun of the coronation.
Sad to hear he has passed away.
89...

 

[Gromit]

Its rumoured him and Dame Edna didn't get on so that's why you never saw them in the same room together.

 

[a_chap]

I shall watch some Sir Les Patterson videos later and raise a glass to the late Mr Humphries.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Barry Humphries: Dame Edna Everage comedian dies at 89

Tributes paid to "savagely funny" Australian entertainer whose characters were loved by millions.

www.bbc.com

He would have made such fun of the coronation.
Sad to hear he has passed away.
89...

 

[surreybrowncap]

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Star of my all time favourite film

 

[DotCommunist]

Boo always liked Dame Edna. He's the only thing good in the first Hobbit film as well, as the goblin king. Years ago I listened to him talking about falling off a cliff, a nasty business.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

RIP. I didn't realise how old Barry/Edna was. But then again, I remember watching Edna on telly when I was a teenager, so ....

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Wasn't he quite right-wing? Can't remember where I read that.

 

[Raheem]

 

[Aladdin]

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[The39thStep]

His Sir Les Patterson creation was one of the funniest characters I’ve ever seen . RIP

 

[urbanspaceman]

Wasn't he quite right-wing? Can't remember where I read that.

Well, in that case, let's celebrate

 

[Elpenor]

RIP

My Nanna was a bit of a fan but was always at pains to tell me that despite dressing up as a woman, “he has a wife”

 

[Hollis]

Always liked Sir Les Patterson. Happened to see him out of character as a guest on 'Saturday Kitchen' last year and he was hilarious.. really wish I'd gone to his stage show. He's got an interesting back story as a prankster in the 50s.

 

[Chilli.s]

RIP

 

[abe11825]

Oh wow, sad to see this. I remember going with a cousin to a Dame Edna show in Boston in the early 2000s. It was a fun time. RIP

 

[Orang Utan]

Star of my all time favourite film

Which is?

 

[Ax^]

rip heard his les patterson persona was almost like how he was most of the time

 

[Ax^]

Which is?

shock treatment sequel of sorts to the rocky horror show

 

[A380]

He was hilarious. But also one of those people I thought had died years ago.

 

[tim]

He was hilarious. But also one of those people I thought had died years ago.

I assumed he'd died after I came across books from his personal book shelves in a secondhand bookshop in Cecil Court. He must have just been having a clear out.

I also had him in my death list alongside Rolf, Rupert, Germain and Judith Durham a couple of years ago .

 

[redsquirrel]

Wasn't he quite right-wing? Can't remember where I read that.

Don't know about that.
But the Barry McKenzie films are really badly dated.
Of course people and the world changes and I've no idea what Humphries may have thought about those films now. But it's hard to see Barry McKenzie holds his own as another other than racist, sexist crap.

 

[weltweit]

Such a shame ..

Complications following a fall in Feb and a hip operation.

89 isn't a bad innings.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is a nice front page

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Wasn't he quite right-wing? Can't remember where I read that.

Well he's not any more.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Made more funny by Carol Vorderman who both introduces & cuts her off.

 

[UrbaneFox]

"I have a great gift: the ability to laugh at other peoples' misfortunes"

 

[cesare]

Awr RIP

 

[blossie33]

Was sorry to hear that, he was quite a character.
RIP