Who created the character of Dame Edna Everage?
Dame Edna Everage Dame Edna Everage Dame Edna Everage is a character created and performed by Australian comedian Barry Humphries, known for her lilac-coloured or "wisteria hue" hair and cat eye glasses or "face furniture", her favourite flower, the gladiolus ("gladdies") and her boisterous greeting: "Hello, Possums!" As Dame Edna, Humphries has written several books including an autobiography, "My Gorgeous Life", appeared in several films and hosted several television shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself and other alter-egos). Humphries has regularly updated Edna, originally a drab Melbourne housewife satirising Australian suburbia. Then he caused the Edna character to adopt an
Dame Edna Everage 2011 she appeared on the BBC-1 broadcast "William and Kate: The Royal Wedding", with Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson, covering the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Buckingham Palace, along with Tracy Grimshaw and Kathy Lette at Westminster Abbey. On 18 March 2012 Humphries announced he would "retire" the Dame Edna character because he was "beginning to feel a bit senior". On 15 March 2013 Dame Edna Everage appeared on "Red Nose Day 2013" as a guest star and judge for the "Comic Relief Does MasterChef" competition between Jack Whitehall and Micky Flanagan. In June 2013 Dame Edna