"In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy."

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About Barry Humphries

Australian comedian, actor, writer, and satirist best known for stage characters including Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

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