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Best of Dame Edna Everage
Who could have guessed that a suburban housewife from Moonee Ponds would become the gigastar Dame Edna Everage is today? Created by satirist Barry Humphries AO, CBE in 1955, even he was taken by...
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The best of Dame Edna Everage through the ages
She's made generations of Aussies simultaneously laugh and cringe. It's the one and only Dame Edna Everage!
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True British Spunk by Edna Everage
Barry Humphries’ recording career has paralleled his stage and screen activities. On the A side he is joined by Australian actor Dick Bentley (who appeared with Humphries in the first two Barry...
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Dame Edna Everage on talkback radio
This is an excerpt of a radio broadcast on the day Dame Edna Everage cheerfully took over the airwaves on Dean Banks' morning show on station 2CC on 23 February 1984. In her element when it comes...
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'Neighbours' theme song by Dame Edna Everage
Dame Edna sings a cover of the very recognisable theme song from Neighbours, the long-running Australian television soap opera (1985–current). The song was written by Tony Hatch with lyrics by Jackie...
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True British Spunk by Edna Everage
This is the 'B' side of a Barry Humprhies EP, A Track Winding Back (Philips 6205 019). It features Edna Everage singing 'True British Spunk', originally written for a BBC TV series in 1969 but...
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A Track Winding Back by Barry Humphries and Dick Bentley
Barry Humphries’ recording career has paralleled his stage and screen activities. On the 'A' side to his EP A Track Winding Back (Philips 6205 019), he is joined by Australian actor Dick Bentley (...
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Dame Edna dabbles in numerology
Dame Edna Everage uses hilariously bad numerology to compare then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the man who would become his successor - Malcolm Fraser. In this interview with Mike Willesee on his...
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An Aussie Audience With Dame Edna: Celebrities
Dame Edna Everage entertains a studio jam-packed with Australian celebrities in 1986. In this opening from An Aussie Audience With Dame Edna we see the megastar's celebrity-pulling power. Guests...
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Madge Allsop: Edna's bridesmaid
One of the reasons behind Dame Edna Everage's success as a character is her rich backstory, created by Barry Humphries. Here on her 1987 talk show The Dame Edna Experience, Everage introduces her...
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