RIP Dame Edna
RIP Dame Edna
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/06
RIP Dame Edna #3
Posted: 4/22/23 at 8:35am
Just one of the funniest people to ever live. I remember seeing “Back With a Vengeance” and sitting directly in front of Sondheim and hearing him howl with laughter the entire show - one of my favorite theater memories.
Hope there’s fields of gladdies waiting in heaven for you, Barry. Thanks for the laughs. <3
RIP Dame Edna #4
Posted: 4/22/23 at 8:41am
I met Dame Edna when I was 16 and my parents and I saw her and Michael Feinstein in “All About Me”. Such a lovely person and a HELL of a performer. I don’t ever remember laughing at such sheer absurdity. RIP
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
RIP Dame Edna #6
Posted: 4/22/23 at 10:29am
RIP. I have never laughed as much in the theater as I did seeing Dame Edna live. A truly great comedic genius in my opinion.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
He was a treasure. 
RIP Dame Edna #9
Posted: 4/22/23 at 12:09pm
We saw Dame Edna on tour some years ago. So funny. Ta Ta For Now, Dame Edna and Barry.
RIP Dame Edna#10
Posted: 4/22/23 at 2:16pm
I saw Dame Edna once in Dallas, in 98 or 99. She was very funny. I remember catching one of her gladiolas.
RIP Dame Edna#11
Posted: 4/22/23 at 3:51pm
Repeating others’ thoughts, but I don’t think I’ve ever laughed as much as the five times I’ve seen the Dame onstage. Barry was one of a kind.
Leading Actor Joined: 5/23/22
RIP Dame Edna#12
Posted: 4/22/23 at 4:59pm
How fitting it is that this NYT obit is one of the funniest ever. Barry and Edna would have loved it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
RIP Dame Edna#14
Posted: 4/22/23 at 11:12pm
''How fitting it is that this NYT obit is one of the funniest ever ''
The NYT obit touches on it, but not everyone was a fan. Humphries sparked controversy after he called transgenderism a ''fashion,'' and said, ''It's pretty evil when it's preached to children by crazy teachers.'' And he was ''grateful'' for Trump.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/shut-up-and-retire-barry-humphries-slammed-for-transphobic-comments-20180723-p4zt0h.html
RIP Dame Edna#15
Posted: 4/23/23 at 2:44am
I think his excuse was Asperger's Syndrome; but yeah it was pretty nasty. Anyway, he's dead now. RIP.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/13
RIP Dame Edna#16
Posted: 4/23/23 at 5:07pm
Maybe the best obit every in the NYT:
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that his survivors include his wife of 30 years, Lizzie Spender, the daughter of the British poet Stephen Spender, as well as his children and 10 grandchildren.
Mr. Humphries continued to perform until last year, when he toured Britain (as himself) with a one-man show, “The Man Behind the Mask.” He returned to Australia in December for Christmas.
Dame Edna’s husband, Norm, a chronic invalid “whose prostate,” she often lamented, “has been hanging over me for years,” died long ago. Her survivors include an adored son, Kenny, who designed all her gowns; a less adored son, Bruce; and a despised daughter, the wayward Valmai. (“She steals things. Puts them in her pantyhose. Particularly frozen chickens when she’s in a supermarket.&rdquo
Another daughter, Lois, was abducted as an infant by a “rogue koala,” a subject Dame Edna could bring herself to discuss with interviewers only rarely.
Though the child was never seen again, to the end of her life Dame Edna never gave up hope she would be found.
“I’m looking,” she told NPR in 2015. “Every time I pass a eucalyptus tree I look up.”
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