Barry Humphries as Dame Edna: a career in clips

Despite never being one to hold her tongue, Dame Edna Everage has called time on a career spanning half a century. We look back at her greatest moments – from her unlikely fever for disco to a contretemps with Melvyn Bragg ...Although Edna's origins go back into the 1950s, the most famous Barry Humphries character of the 1960s was Barry McKenzie, a boorish but straightforward Australian in London, the hero of a regular Private Eye cartoon. McKenzie became so popular, in fact, that two films we...

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