OT: RIP Barry Humphries -- "Dame Edna Everage"
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/22/celebrities/barry-humphries-dame-edna-dies-intl/index.html
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OK, perhaps not as well known as some, but "Dame Edna" will be missed. If you don't know her, you're missing some over-the-top camp. Funny, irreverant, obtuse, glamorous, self-important, ridiculous, mean, funny, just a good laugh at human excesses & foibles. Examples: "Australia is an outdoor country," he once said. "People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's a recent development."
Or, "To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
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Awwwwwwwwww. I love Dame Edna. Sleep well Barry. Thanks for the laughs Dame!
Dame Eda introduces the Queen
he was misunderstood in America (not the UK) because he was a Crossdresser not a Drag Queen and certainly not Trans
Americans don't seem to understand the difference
in the UK pantomime is a centuries old thing and we also have them
you have a persona of another gender to your usual one more like multiple personalities
it's nothing to do with sexual orientation
I mention this because American interviews with Dame Edna were so terribly cringe worthy to me, here when Barry was portraying her we just addressed her as her as another person separately to Barry who was referred to as a different person
Legend!
As an American I can say that I fully understood Barry and positively enjoyed Dame Edna whenever I got a chance to see her. I am sorry this enormous talent will no longer be with us. RIP Dame Edna
Condolences to Mr Humphries' friends, family, and fans.
Drag is performative cross-dressing, which is what Humpries was doing when he played Edna.
well generally the Drag Queen are trying to look attractive or at least outrageous
Dame Edna was an average suburban housewife at least at the start
he had other personas such as the very obnoxious uncouth Sir Les Patterson minister for the Arts and the Late Sandy Stone
it's more in the vein of the sort of characters played by the Monty Python Flying Circus except his made regular appearances
my comment about America was because of some really truly cringeworthy interviews I saw from there, I am Australian BTW and grew up watching him.
He was not without controversy either making comments he later retracted about Caitlyn Jenner
Drag is distinct from a cross-dressing because the motivation of dragging is typically non-sexualised.
Some of his Sir Les Patterson bits were so outragously innapropriate, like his "second hole" one... vile character but hilarious.
be careful with hair removal cream for your schnauzer .... if you know what I mean....
a legend
no more "Possums..."
RIP Barry. Thanks for the laughs.
Ozzie humour at it's best: Gently but persistantly taking the mick out of everyone and everything. Such a shame he's gone. He was in the same mould as 'Hinge and Bracket'. Now that both are gone, will we ever see anything similar again? Probably not, and the world will be a poorer place for it.
Regards,
Richard.
Yep, no more hello to the "Possums", and no more of that so-telling face she lets out, now and then. A cross between a scowl, disgust, how-dare-you, and fear. I never knew mouths could contort like that.
In my top 5 favourite Stralians along with Mel Gibson, Madge, Bee, Doreen and Kylie and Jason. Also Nick Cave and Eric Bogle.