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 ...

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 ...

Dame Edna Everage was never one for modesty. “Everage is probably the most popular and gifted woman in the world today,” trumpet the program notes accompanying the self-proclaimed Australian ...

Following her sell-out farewell tour, Dame Edna Everage has been offshore, enjoying some luxury downtime on-board her enormous superyacht, The Ocean Widow. She’s back, for one outrageous night of ...

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 ...