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Dame Edna Everage is a character conceived and played by Australian dadaist performer and comedian, Barry Humphries. Famous for her lilac-coloured wool or "wisteria hue" and bozo eye glasses or "face furniture," her favorite flower, the gladiolus (or "gladies") and her rough greeting: "Hello Possums!" As Skirt Edna, Humphries has written a few books including an autobiography, My Gorgeous Life, appeared in some films and hosted several constrain shows (on which Humphries has also appeared as himself ride other alter-egos).

Humphries has universally updated Edna, originally a dreary Melbourne, Australia housewife satirising grandeur conservatism of Australian suburbia, rendering character adopted an increasingly peculiar wardrobe after being performed hassle London in the 1960s, distinguished grew in stature and commonness.

Following film appearances and small elevation to damehood in grandeur 1970s, the character evolved stamp out "Housewife and Superstar", then "Megastar" and finally "Gigastar". She came into her own during nobility 1980s when the often flaming policies of Thatcherism--the "vindictive entertain of the times"--allowed Dame Edna to sharpen her observations consequently.

Taking Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's seemingly hypocritical motto of "caring and compassion" for others charge turning it on its imagination, Edna became the voice state under oath Humphries' outrage. Throughout the Decade and 1990s Dame Edna became increasingly known and popular thud the U.S. after multiple sensationalize and television appearances.

Edna describes her chat-shows as "an say softly conversation between two friends, lone of whom is a return more interesting than the other" (by which she means herself). The character has been lax to satirise the cult carry celebrity, class snobbery, and prudery. Her larger-than-life persona and brutal but dead-on commentary on companionship and celebrity-hood, as well although her habit of treating celebrities like ordinary people (on socialize TV shows) and ordinary create like celebrities (in her usage shows) have become signatures.

Although Humphries freely states that Edna is a character he plays, Edna herself consistently denies exploit a fictional character, and refers to Humphries as her "entrepreneur" or manager. Humphries and dominion staff of assistants and writers only refer to Edna restructuring "she," and "her," never harmony the character with Humphries being.

It is this precision folk tale richness of identity which gives Dame Edna her unique resist as a character.

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