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Lucy Kellaway recalls the years Barry Humphries lived with her family and left her unmoved by his prototype alter ego
The comedian’s intellectual rigour and deep research resulted in effortless delivery
An unmatched provocateur, whose most famous invention, Dame Edna, was a masterwork of snobbery, hypocrisy and an ebulliently monstrous ego
The music-hall artiste on longing for the stage — and his Australian homesick blues
The humorist presides over an evening of long-forgotten music from Germany
The entertainer best known as Dame Edna Everage contemplates the marvels of his home country Australia
The success of their home, resource-driven economy is putting Australians off staying in Britain
ABN’s cross-dressing chairman Gerrit Zalm has a keen sense of what humour can achieve
‘I’m not the only actor in history who finds that what he does on stage is more agreeable than real life’
The American songwriter’s self-absorption is remarkable; so is the wit with which it’s expressed
Dinner with Jung Chang, a pantomime with Dame Edna and finishing a novel about Josiah Wedgwood
Eye-catching sets, sumptuous costumes and the triumph of the pantomime Dame
The ‘manager’ of Dame Edna Everage has been rebelling against niceness for more than 50 years. On a break from rehearsals for his first pantomime, he orders a bizarrely orange cake
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