Dame Edna Everage in an interview with Michael Parkinson after she adressed her christmas message... Lenny Henry is the other talking guest and he can't stop laughing... One of the greatest interviews ever.. Enjoy... ;-)
Possums. Watching this today - April 22nd, 2023 - with news Dame Edna has passed away aged 89. I've got tears in my eyes, uncontrollably laughing and also with much sadness
I was privileged to spend an evening with Dame Edna during her Final Farewell Tour at the Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre in 2015. It was blissful evening with the brilliant and magnificent treasure, Barry Humphries and his beyond-delightful persona, Dame Edna... truly a night I have and will never forget. He was an absolute one of a kind and a gift to us all. RIP, you funny man.
I took my six-year-old son to see Dame Edna in San Francisco many years ago, not telling him what he was in for except that it would be quite fun. When she came out on stage and said hello possums, my insightful son leaned into me and said ‘dad, that’s really a man.’ I said ‘I know, that’s what makes it funny’ and we both laughed all the way through.
Dame Edna is INSANE. These days she would be tarred and feathered for some of what she said. BRILLIANT. Her wit is so sharp I have to watch her twice because I lol till tears roll down my face. Funny, funny lady.
There was a comedy award in Australia named after Barry Humphries but the snowflakes got it changed because of some jokes about gay people he told 20 years ago.
@@lapalad Ridiculous that they changed it! It was part of a tongue-in-cheek act for goodness sake. There was no malice in it as far as I can see. Her appearances with Matt Lucas and Will Young (the latter on the Rob Brydon show) had such leanings and they were hilarious - and I’m a gay man! There’s a difference between comedy and homophobia. Dame Edna, I believe, was not guilty of the latter.
The jokes about gays in San Francisco or Lenny Henry being West Indian wouldn't fly for most comedians. But Humphries was always able to get away with that because as brilliant as Edna is, he's also not afraid of sometimes making her look naive or backward. It's an amazing character.
Lenny seemed much sharper in those days (he's a completely unfunny relic now) but his attempt at wrestling with Barry was always going to be a failure.
I love to see Dame Edna among other comedians because you can sense they are intimidated and she never fails to crush them with her unrivaled wit and timing.
How fast is she...hear's "Kunte Kinte"...and quicker than lightning, upstages Lenny in a heartbeat. I loved Lenny's "frozen" look...he's a great sport and knows not to try and upstage her...notice she said straight after that comeback "Leonard"...you can't beat that quick wit...NOBODY CAN!
@@MAZ732 No!! Really? A man in woman's clothing? Really truly so? Imagine that! Good heavens! I never would have suspected! She's so dainty and feminine! I can't credit it! Honestly, I am shocked and bewildered to learn that Dame Edna is ACTUALLY A MAN! More shocking revelations: - Cancer can be FATAL! - Water is WET! - Blood is RED! - Birds can FLY! Thank you so much.
I remember an interview with David Walliams from Little Britain and he was having breakfast in a restaurant with Barry Humphries. A waiter approached the table and asked "fresh orange juice?" and Barry said "have you got any that's a few days old and on the turn?"
@@blueskye6372Lenny Bruce is out of his league here. Can’t keep up with the Dame. Just pulls comic faces because he doesn’t have a come back or know what to say.
Barry Humphries was an amazing talent. On the flip side Lenny Henry has a lot to thank that talent show for, same ol 💩year on year Caribbean accents and the like, soo boring an unfunny.
"Is Bombay the capital of West India?" These days that would be an instant Twitter twat war, with people calling for career-ending apologies. See what you've done, SJWs? You've literally sucked all the joy and humour out of the world...
I find it hilarious that anyone should take the time to "call out" an easily ignored comment that I made a year ago. Particularly in these trying times. Don't you have legitimate ballots to burn because you don't like where the cross is? Or long-dead relatives who have suddenly started voting again? Or, indeed, a cross to burn "ironically" in the name of BLM? Come on, kiddies - let's not allow that festering white privilege to go to waste. And that's before you start telling me how you're saving the world by wearing a mask because someone on TV told you to...
Dame Edna and Sir Led Patterson are two of the greatest persona's created by this genius of a man. A true comic legend. And then their is Sir, Lenny Henry. 🙈
She is so, SO funny. Sometimes I have to watch her stuff 2x to catch all of her asides and witticisms. Thank you for years of laughter Edna, thank you. I am one of her American possums, have loved her for years. She has become a very big deal out here, we need her now more than ever.
Putting on that pathetic American accent and then the "Why couldn't you be called Steve...or Kunte Kinta?" Which failed dismally and the latter feeding the Dame with the funniest and most savage comeback of the interview!
Kunte Kinte. I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it. That was so quick. Barry Humphries would have to be one of the best exponents of improvisation in the world.
@@hammy203 If you abbreviated it you would get something which sounds like cunt which is probably the rudest word in the English language (slang for vagina - female sex organ)
So glad you said that… I’ve never found him slightly funny at all. I always felt he was pushed forward and favoured by tv execs because he ticked a certain box !
Luv the double entendre... There I was rubbing my husband's obelisk..... With a mind so razor sharp it can cut anyone down in an instant. What a wit.... He should be on every schools curriculum.
5 min in Very "Awake" & totally not "Woke"! Very refreshing when you feel free to speak as you find. No doubt "she" wouldn't mind being the butt of jokes by gay couples either!
"It wouldn't surprise me if Martians didn't adore me." Made me think of a bustling population of aliens on Mars, all wearing wavy purple wigs and glittery cat glasses.
This is a rare grammatical error. “It wouldn’t surprise me if Martians adored me” is the correct version. Other than that I consider BH to be a master of the English language.
@@cragerzz Has anybody seen his first acts? He's as funny a syphilis and the only reason he ever I mean ever, got where he is is that he's, what can I say? He's of the right BBC material. They desperately needed one, he provided it. Take the word black from his act.... he hasn't got an act and if that's not racist against whites, what is? By the way, do you know hw once did a film where he 'whited up' That's right, he was made up to be white.... you RACIST Lenny, when are you going to apologise to every white person in Britain for that outrageous RACISM and why is everybody going out of their way to conceal the fact?
Thank you, so much. It's refreshing to learn that I'm far from the only one who thinks that Lenny of the wide eye roll is about as non-funny as a blackface parody
"Buffing up my husband's obelisk" . I died. For genuinely spit your tea out, "she sad what?" filth & quick witted unrehearsed one liners (the Kunte Kinte one especially) , Dame Edna is Queen...!
Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face....
Could watch Dame Edna all the time. Brilliant wit, timing and use if the character. You can sense that those around her are very wary about what they say. The character is so quick witted and cutting, no-one stands a chance.
Dame Edna giving Lenny Henry a lesson on what it is to be funny.
👍😊
Lenny Henry......as funny as watching an orphanage burn down.sitting next to a damn genius.........
Lenny Henry totally outgunned by a superior level of genius.
He still would be.
He has no talent and has earned a living being a pro black a race hustler, he is as funny as tooth ache
Try to upstage Barry H at your peril.
@@alextelford5176 I've always thought that...
Lenny Henry is so not funny. I’m amazed he’s got where he’s got
When he totally snatches the Kunta-kentae joke from Lenny it proves his unrivaled comedic genius.
Possums. Watching this today - April 22nd, 2023 - with news Dame Edna has passed away aged 89. I've got tears in my eyes, uncontrollably laughing and also with much sadness
I was privileged to spend an evening with Dame Edna during her Final Farewell Tour at the Los Angeles Ahmanson Theatre in 2015. It was blissful evening with the brilliant and magnificent treasure, Barry Humphries and his beyond-delightful persona, Dame Edna... truly a night I have and will never forget. He was an absolute one of a kind and a gift to us all. RIP, you funny man.
Oh how lucky , what a great thing to have done ❤️. Love the Dame 😀😀😀😀❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hi from Australia. Beautifully said.
I saw Dame Edna in Pittsburgh, PA. One of the best experiences I've ever had. The Dame probably has Heaven in stitches!
I took my six-year-old son to see Dame Edna in San Francisco many years ago, not telling him what he was in for except that it would be quite fun.
When she came out on stage and said hello possums, my insightful son leaned into me and said ‘dad, that’s really a man.’ I said ‘I know, that’s what makes it funny’ and we both laughed all the way through.
Woke BBC/Guardian types would crucify her these days.
Dame Edna is INSANE. These days she would be tarred and feathered for some of what she said. BRILLIANT. Her wit is so sharp I have to watch her twice because I lol till tears roll down my face. Funny, funny lady.
There was a comedy award in Australia named after Barry Humphries but the snowflakes got it changed because of some jokes about gay people he told 20 years ago.
@@lapalad
Ridiculous that they changed it! It was part of a tongue-in-cheek act for goodness sake. There was no malice in it as far as I can see. Her appearances with Matt Lucas and Will Young (the latter on the Rob Brydon show) had such leanings and they were hilarious - and I’m a gay man! There’s a difference between comedy and homophobia. Dame Edna, I believe, was not guilty of the latter.
Just checking...
You know her real name is Barry.
We're now in a sad place where miserable wokeism is trying to eradicate comedic geniuses like Dame Edna.
The jokes about gays in San Francisco or Lenny Henry being West Indian wouldn't fly for most comedians. But Humphries was always able to get away with that because as brilliant as Edna is, he's also not afraid of sometimes making her look naive or backward. It's an amazing character.
If Lenny Henry lives to be 100 he’ll never even approach Dame Edna wit.
Awww but Lenny is so funny and when I was a kid I loved his characters on Saturday morning tv. 🎉
Kunta Kinte. “Ooh I’m glad you didn’t abbreviate it, Leonard.” Spit-out-the-tea moment!
Watching Edna today. The day she passed in 2023. She will be sadly missed.
Barry Humphries was 76 years old back then.......and not a bit old -so full of life !Amazing !
Parky just goes along with it 😂brilliant 👏 hilarious 😁 r.i.p...barry...❤
Rest in peace ❤ to an absolute icon 🙏 thanks Dame Edna for the laughs 😅
Lenny seemed much sharper in those days (he's a completely unfunny relic now) but his attempt at wrestling with Barry was always going to be a failure.
I love to see Dame Edna among other comedians because you can sense they are intimidated and she never fails to crush them with her unrivaled wit and timing.
i would love to have seen her against john cleese.
She shows just how unfunny Lenny Henry is.
Comedy gold. Dame Edna could arguably be the funniest 'Lady' ever in TV history. We salute you dear Barry Humphries!!
Most definitely ...
Lennie is about as funny as scratching your hemorrhoids with a chainsaw
Love Edna with the Australians and British, majority of Americans just don’t have the same sense of humour….as the Dame said ‘they’re too serious’.
Lenny Henry trying to compete with Dame Edna is cringe. Bless.
What a quick wit...
You'd be hard pressed not to succumb to a healthy belly laugh.
Brilliance supreme as seen here.
RIP.
Lenny Henry learning from a comedian.
Barry was so good off the cuff, what a fucking legend.
Parky always got on very well with Dame Edna and her friends.
His mind is so fast and sharp. Nobody ad libs like Barry Humphries
Lenny Henry not liking being upstaged but then he's another talentless egoist and no match for the brilliant Barry Humphries.
Dame Edna is quite naughty and absolutely brilliant. What a gem💜
Edna was always several steps in front and knew how to set up the joke before the receiving end had any clue what was coming. Genius!
LOL…I’m in tears laughing with the Dame as she goes about “ buffering up her husbands obelisk”. …Comedic Gold I tell you..So good!
Never gets old however many times you watch!
Lenny Henry just ain’t funny
"In the cemetery, buffing my husband's obelisk."
Oh holy hell.... Thought I'd never catch my breath!
GENIUS. ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!
He used to like me doing that when he was still alive”!!!
@@paylmoffat3409 Subtle as a sledgehammer the Ol' Dame, for those who didn't get it the first time. 😂
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Makes you realise what a lightweight Lenny Henry was.
R.I.P. POSSUM
She can say whatever she likes and gets away with it. Bless her!
How fast is she...hear's "Kunte Kinte"...and quicker than lightning, upstages Lenny in a heartbeat. I loved Lenny's "frozen" look...he's a great sport and knows not to try and upstage her...notice she said straight after that comeback "Leonard"...you can't beat that quick wit...NOBODY CAN!
Flawless!!
100% agree
You do realise that dame Edna is really a man called Barry Humphrey’s. talking like he is a she!
Gimmick !
Masterclass at wit 👍
@@MAZ732 No!! Really? A man in woman's clothing? Really truly so? Imagine that! Good heavens! I never would have suspected! She's so dainty and feminine! I can't credit it! Honestly, I am shocked and bewildered to learn that Dame Edna is ACTUALLY A MAN! More shocking revelations:
- Cancer can be FATAL!
- Water is WET!
- Blood is RED!
- Birds can FLY!
Thank you so much.
Jason Hurd my comments wasn’t aimed at you so dick head
Really highlights how mediocre Henry is in comparison to a true talent such as Mr Humphries.
Love watching Michael, he always looses it when Dame Edna is on
He knows that once she is on, the show is not Parkinson, but Edna Live!
LOSES it
Lenny is really funny too😂
I never realised Michael Parkinson was so very good . He really brings out the brilliance in the Dame..
He knows how to be a good feed and then step back.
Parky is a superb straight man!...none better...
In my life you have been the humour that keeps me laughing. Thank you so much Barry.
Best thing to come out of Australia! Legend!
Amazing as this might sound but Dame Edna ad libs pretty much everything you hear. Just brilliant. So quick!
This is one of Dame Edna’s best. Barry’s wit and timing is unparalleled.
So agree. 💜👍🎥📺🎬😆
I remember an interview with David Walliams from Little Britain and he was having breakfast in a restaurant with Barry Humphries. A waiter approached the table and asked "fresh orange juice?" and Barry said "have you got any that's a few days old and on the turn?"
Astounding comic Troy
@@blueskye6372Lenny Bruce is out of his league here. Can’t keep up with the Dame. Just pulls comic faces because he doesn’t have a come back or know what to say.
@@lapislazuli7876 Lenny Bruce?
Barry Humphries was an amazing talent. On the flip side Lenny Henry has a lot to thank that talent show for, same ol 💩year on year Caribbean accents and the like, soo boring an unfunny.
Dame Edna is simply incredible. Nobody gets out alive. She's like some fantastic, relentless demon!
But a very nice demon as it’s all done with such wit.
The only person that made Micheal Parkinson laugh out loud
@@spizzenergi2292
Dame Edna is the cream when it comes to comedians unfortunately Lenny Henry isn’t
@@supersonicsid5930 he never has and never will.
"Is Bombay the capital of West India?"
These days that would be an instant Twitter twat war, with people calling for career-ending apologies.
See what you've done, SJWs?
You've literally sucked all the joy and humour out of the world...
And yet ironically you’re really triggered by it. 😂
Pipedown snowflake.
Funny you're the one writing this comment and keeping the war alive.
you’re the one feeding the flames
I find it hilarious that anyone should take the time to "call out" an easily ignored comment that I made a year ago. Particularly in these trying times.
Don't you have legitimate ballots to burn because you don't like where the cross is? Or long-dead relatives who have suddenly started voting again? Or, indeed, a cross to burn "ironically" in the name of BLM? Come on, kiddies - let's not allow that festering white privilege to go to waste.
And that's before you start telling me how you're saving the world by wearing a mask because someone on TV told you to...
OMG. "I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it, Leonard."
I dont catch the joke in this line.... Could you explain me? Thanks
Showing Lennie Henry how to be funny.
Dame Edna and Sir Led Patterson are two of the greatest persona's created by this genius of a man. A true comic legend. And then their is Sir, Lenny Henry. 🙈
Thank you for identifying the gentleman guest. I had no idea who he was. BTW, I has always adored Dame Edna 💖😊
She is so, SO funny. Sometimes I have to watch her stuff 2x to catch all of her asides and witticisms. Thank you for years of laughter Edna, thank you. I am one of her American possums, have loved her for years. She has become a very big deal out here, we need her now more than ever.
Same here. Sometimes she's so quick its almost hard to believe Barry Humphries is 85.
Like the one about not abbreviating Kunta Kinte. That one flew right over everyone's head.
LENNY NEVER FUNNY HENRY
Lenny Henry trying to outdo dame Edna, not succeeding
he was rubbish
He was embarrassing. Not at all funny. Totally out of Dame Edna's league.
Putting on that pathetic American accent and then the "Why couldn't you be called Steve...or Kunte Kinta?"
Which failed dismally and the latter feeding the Dame with the funniest and most savage comeback of the interview!
What a wonderful faithful woman, buffing up her husband's obelisk.
i have lauged more thru that short appearance...with actual tears running down my face, than I have done thru lenny henry's entire career !
I have a gladioli pressed. Before you became a Dame. Countless hours of laughter.
Barry the comic genius. Thank you ❤❤❤
You dont hear them called alice bands that much any more
We could use Edna's wisdom-laden humour these days. Time for an encore.
Love seeing Dame Edna with Michael Parkinson, they are magic together!
crystalheart9 so true
Her timing is outstanding. Such a comic genius
Don't take her on...she always wins!
I’m still laughing!! & it’s
2023!! Hooray 🥰
Kunte Kinte. I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it. That was so quick. Barry Humphries would have to be one of the best exponents of improvisation in the world.
I didnt get that joke, can you explaon pls?
@@hammy203 If you abbreviated it you would get something which sounds like cunt which is probably the rudest word in the English language (slang for vagina - female sex organ)
It's the facial expressions too..😆
I’m glad Lennie Henry is described as a comedian because you’d never know without being told🤨
So glad you said that…
I’ve never found him slightly funny at all. I always felt he was pushed forward and favoured by tv execs because he ticked a certain box !
He did well to keep his mouth closed largely, because no one would look like a comedian sitting next to the great Dame Edna.
😂😂
@@johnnyhock yep
@@hisheroshipleast of all him
A true genuis!! Thank you for the laughs!! 🤣RIP
Wonderful! Michael Parkinson & Lenny Henry play along fantastically with the great Dame's rapier wit. Great show!!
Lenny Henry surplus to requirements....then as now...
Me too! Comedy genius - no equal, even today!
I'd forgotten Lenny Henry is a comedy vacuum.
What a self aggrandising tone deaf non entity he is!
@@adrianmercuri8956 What a succinct and superbly accurate description!! Bravo!
Barry Humphries the epitome of Aussie humour, Subversive, silly and laughing at yourself
The irrepressible and brilliant Barry Humphries! Oh what a laugh!
In the days when we could laugh.
Luv the double entendre... There I was rubbing my husband's obelisk..... With a mind so razor sharp it can cut anyone down in an instant. What a wit.... He should be on every schools curriculum.
Shame Lenny Henry the unfunniest person is in this
She is absolutely fantastic...!!! Quick witted and just born for this role. God bless Dame Edna...!!!
She is always at her comedic genius best on Parkinson ☺☺He just lets her take over the show ☺☺Good on Parky 🙂☺
Yes. Freddie star was the same!
A true comedian,unlike Lenny Henry
barry's dame never fails to crack me up, such a brilliant conversationalist.
As I've said elsewhere, Humphries is a true legend. The current 'cancel culture' may have something to say, but his comic genius cannot be denied.
Agree!!
I agree 👍
“I’ve helped this show how many times ? “ 😂😂😂
If you can call it a show. 😂😉😂
God bless humphries Lenny got schooled
Lenny is cringey
I'm in love with Dame Edna... Been binge watching her videos since yesterday
It’s astonishing how good Barry Humphries is doing Dame Edna as he does. Incredibly entertaining & brilliantly funny.
5 min in
Very "Awake" & totally not "Woke"!
Very refreshing when you feel free to speak as you find.
No doubt "she" wouldn't mind being the butt of jokes by gay couples either!
I was in the cemetery, buffing up my husbands obelisk
"It wouldn't surprise me if Martians didn't adore me."
Made me think of a bustling population of aliens on Mars, all wearing wavy purple wigs and glittery cat glasses.
This is a rare grammatical error. “It wouldn’t surprise me if Martians adored me” is the correct version. Other than that I consider BH to be a master of the English language.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Never gets old so very funny, always cheers me up when feeling sad she is the best
Lenny is not funny TBH his jokes give me second hand embarrassment.
Absolutely hysterical! One of Dame Edna's funniest interviews.
RIP Dame Edna
Dame Edna showing Lenny Henry how to be funny
R.I.P Edna.
Lenny's never seen one of those before, a comedian.
He’s certainly never seen one in the mirror.
Lenny just isnt funny
@@cragerzz Has anybody seen his first acts? He's as funny a syphilis and the only reason he ever I mean ever, got where he is is that he's, what can I say? He's of the right BBC material. They desperately needed one, he provided it. Take the word black from his act.... he hasn't got an act and if that's not racist against whites, what is? By the way, do you know hw once did a film where he 'whited up' That's right, he was made up to be white.... you RACIST Lenny, when are you going to apologise to every white person in Britain for that outrageous RACISM and why is everybody going out of their way to conceal the fact?
He should have stuck to the likes of tiswas.
Thank you, so much.
It's refreshing to learn that I'm far from the only one who thinks that Lenny of the wide eye roll is about as non-funny as a blackface parody
"Buffing up my husband's obelisk" . I died. For genuinely spit your tea out, "she sad what?" filth & quick witted unrehearsed one liners (the Kunte Kinte one especially) , Dame Edna is Queen...!
Sarah holland absolutely love her!
Sarah holland haha Yes, she is simultaneously completely clean and absolutely filthy at the very same time. Genius!
True.
Lenny Henry thought he'd made the joke only to be upstaged and outwitted by Dame Edna.
Brilliant.
Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face....
Lovely to see how sensitive Lenny Henry is, his paper thin vanity shrivelling under Dane Edna.
Barry Humphries is living, comic genius.
He's dead
@@zapkvr He is not dead.
He just died -- April 2023.
@@zapkvr what is your problem mate?
Priceless. Dame Edna rules.
Priceless and timeless.
I've never really found Lenny funny and this clip just reinforces that view. Dame Edna puts him in the nursery.
Could watch Dame Edna all the time.
Brilliant wit, timing and use if the character.
You can sense that those around her are very wary about what they say.
The character is so quick witted and cutting, no-one stands a chance.