Dame Edna began as a satire and suburbia and became evolved into a global goddess of bling and irreverence that included a Tony Award.
The death was confirmed by the hospital on April 22, the Associated Press reported, but no other details were immediately provided. Mr. Humphries was hospitalized for complications after hip surgery.
The character became best known to American audiences through outrageous talk shows beginning in the late 1980s with “The Dame Edna Experience,” where Edna would playfully mock and tease guests such as the actor Charlton Heston, who was called Chuck. In 1999, Dame Edna opened at Broadway’s Booth Theater with her show “Dame Edna: The Royal Tour,” in which she skewered pretty much everyone and everything, on her way to a Tony Award. “The show is so funny that it brought on a friend’s asthma ,” the reviewer Richard Laermer wrote in The Washington Post.
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