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The Independent, April 6, 2013
...mean? He's the most reputable politician Australia has ever had!" The comedian is retiring his alter ego Dame Edna Everage. "She's exhausting," he said, "but you haven't seen the last of her." Nor Sir Les, we hope...
Australian Stage, February 20, 2013
...an hilarious riff, accompanied by childhood slides of himself, in his mother’s fancy dress designs; Mr Squiggle, Dame Edna Everage; first prize! A golliwog; got called into the principal’s office! The Dewey Decimal System of Library Cataloguing was...
NewsMaker, January 28, 2013
...as dry, cheeky and sarcastic. Performing artist Barry Humphries exemplifies this, through his satirical character creations of housewife Dame Edna Everage and wine loving Les Patterson, and Paul Hogan brought the outback to the big screen in the movie...
Mail Online UK, January 17, 2013
...that they had little in common now she'd 'turned superstar'. Or, as it seems to me, into Dame Edna Everage...
Mail Online UK, January 10, 2013
...accompanied by Michael Palin, 'walked out on to the stage with a parrot cage and the theatre erupted'. Dame Edna Everage materialised from Australia, 'where half the population are behind bars and the other half are leaning on them', to express her hope...
New Statesman, November 15, 2012
...the twin sister of Henry Root. Looking back, Whitehouse seems more like a work of fiction – the Dame Edna Everage of the West Midlands Bible Belt. Yet although she was a nuisance, she performed a useful function as an ideological counterweight,...
Irish Times, August 10, 2012
..." He was described in the Guardian newspaper once as writing the English of Shakespeare, Milton, Macaulay and Dame Edna Everage; Hughes enjoyed the description. His prose was lithe, muscular and fast as a bunch of fives. He was incapable of writing the...
E-Travel Blackboard, May 9, 2013
...he didn’t manage to secure the real person, Pablo Martinez from Mexico dressed up as Aussie icon Dame Edna Everage for his application. The 25 finalists are from 12 destinations, with NSW attracting the only finalists from India, Japan, Sweden and...
Visordown, May 9, 2013
...Birmingham's frozen motorways. TMAX 530 Black Max ... mean and moody Sharp and compact Clocks remind me of Dame Edna Everage's glasses but are easy to read, possums! Akrapovic pipe makes all the difference Screen isn't adjustable on the move:...
London Evening Standard, May 9, 2013
...is perhaps the most conspicuously versatile of the four, even if his grand Aunt Augusta sometimes sounds like Dame Edna Everage. Much of Travels with My Aunt is clever and funny. Yet when the plot becomes complex, the laughs dry up. Meandering is an...
London Evening Standard, May 9, 2013
Travel News, May 9, 2013
...he didn’t manage to secure the real person, Pablo Martinez from Mexico dressed up as Aussie icon Dame Edna Everage for his application. The 25 finalists are from 12 destinations, with NSW attracting the only finalists from India, Japan, Sweden and...
London Evening Standard, May 9, 2013
...is perhaps the most conspicuously versatile of the four, even if his grand Aunt Augusta sometimes sounds like Dame Edna Everage. Much of Travels with My Aunt is clever and funny. Yet when the plot becomes complex, the laughs dry up. Meandering is an...
NewsRT.co.uk, May 6, 2013
...vulnerability and defiance. Instantly recognisable, this photograph of Christine Keeler has been reproduced on T-shirts, sent up by Dame Edna Everage and even recreated in Lego, but looking at it afresh it is still possible to see how with one click of...













