Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, is in a Sydney hospital with complications following hip surgery.
Barry Humphries arrives for the Oldie of the Year awards, at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, London, on Feb. 2, 2016. Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, is in a Sydney hospital with complications following hip surgery. St.
“His children were told in the beginning of the week it would be advisable if they wanted to come see him to do so … and they are all there right now along with his wife, Lizzie,” Ford told Perth Radio 6PR. “It was the most ridiculous thing, like all domestic incidents are. I was reaching for a book, my foot got caught on a rug or something, and down I went,” Humphries said of his fall.
Edna is one of Humpries' several enduring characters. The next most famous is Sir Les Patterson, an ever-drunk, disheveled and lecherous Australian cultural attache.
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