He never went out of fashion because he was never exactly in fashion
‘Dame Edna was unequalled when it came to puncturing the celebrity carapace,’ writes Bruce Dessau Barry Humphries
. Probably the world’s most unlikely double act. It was not so much his politically incorrect riffing that was memorable, but the fact that the act culminated in Sir Les unfurling a large prosthetic penis in front of the petite pop star. Imagine if something like that happened today. Particularly if it had been caught on camera.until they crumbled. Even if in more recent times this did backfire.
Humphries’s chat shows contained many of his finest moments. As a fictional host interviewing real guests he changed comedy forever, blazing a trail where Caroline Aherne’s Mrs Merton and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G were to follow. A Venn diagram would also find overlap between Humphries and the recently departed Paul O’Grady, whose Lily Savage also had a healthy disdain for product-plugging waffle.
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