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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🙈
Michael Parkinson is an amazing interviewer. With Dame Edna!! Wow. She is just wonderful. Just fantastic from the 3 of them. So clever and so entertaing. Love it.
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.
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.
Good old Parky, Edna on form as usual and great to see Lenny Henry as well. Shame we don't see Edna on tv as much these days but still great to see these old clips.
Dame Edna in Adelaide half a lifetime ago and she brought Sir Les and Sandy with her. What a great show that was and such a happy one. As usual she threw Gladies into the audience and I saw one heading toward me so I put my hand up to protect my face and caught it much to the annoyance of the person behind me who was hoping to catch it! How I treasured that flower and I dried it to look back on and remember that wonderful evening. Thanks to You Tube for keeping all those memories alive. I have watched those shows over and over again and they are so uplifting, every time. Thank you Barry / Dame Edna for your clever wit and happiness you gave us. Alas no more. 😢. R.I.P.
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.
He was so incredibly sharp and witty off the cuff...It's one thing having a prepared routine, but to be able to come back to questioning like that and be so funny. Absolute legend ! Is there anyone around now who is as funny as this off the cuff ? There was no filter with Dame Edna and yes sometimes, especially looking back there would have been an inappropriate bullet being fired off every now and then, but without that freedom you don't get that natural comeback and the flow of all the great lines live like this. People these days stop and think before they wise crack in case they upset someone and as such it's all become rather sterile. I literally cried laughing at some of those comebacks and stories. Humour is such a tonic to difficult times.
Barry Humphrey is unbelievably talented.He can also write. I really enjoyed reading his memoir of growing up in Melbourne, and a more serious supposed novel called Women in the Background.
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 quick. Humphries walked into lunch at Tasmania's Launceston Hotel around 1970. Saw red flock wallpaper, red table-cloths, red upholstery ... and said instantly ... ''One feels like a tick in an abattoir''. Lunch for two. Such a privilege
"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....
A comedic Genius. Michael Parkinson was always an amazing partner during these segments. Both enhanced one another so Naturally. Both very generous. Both now moved on. Two more stars in heaven which is now Richer with their presence. Thank you Barry and Michael for sharing with us. Gods speed..
@@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
I think there is only one person in the world who could have come up with that joke on the spot and, thankfully, she was sitting right there. Comic genius.
@@xchimino2 The first four letters of Kunte sound like the English word for coño--only it's a much more vulgar word in English than in Spanish; you could never say it on television.
I LOVE HOW MICHAEL REACTS TO DAME EDNA😜😜😜😜😜😜😜. HE CANT STOP LAUGHING AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY ARE GOOD FRIENDS. SO SO FUNNY!!!!! JOANN LAMONICA ONEONTA NEW YORK
I don't manage to get through the first minutes without cracking up ....or the unbelievable desire to hit the "comments section" ....",most women would not admit to the fact that they are glad their husbands have died "....Lord , Dame Edna .....you are the voice of reason in the insanity Lockdown has become ! Thank you ....the original Possum.
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.
Never gets old however many times you watch!
Watching Edna today. The day she passed in 2023. She will be sadly missed.
Dame Edna giving Lenny Henry a lesson on what it is to be funny.
👍😊
When he totally snatches the Kunta-kentae joke from Lenny it proves his unrivaled comedic genius.
I’m still laughing!! & it’s
2023!! Hooray 🥰
Nick Tino.. Almost 10 minutes is worth it.. Still one of my all time faves! 🙏🤣🤣
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
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!
Wonderful! Michael Parkinson & Lenny Henry play along fantastically with the great Dame's rapier wit. Great show!!
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.
No they're not intimidated, not in a negative way anyway.
@@nespressoman How?
I have a gladioli pressed. Before you became a Dame. Countless hours of laughter.
Barry the comic genius. Thank you ❤❤❤
Love the Dame! She just takes over and brings the house down.
In my life you have been the humour that keeps me laughing. Thank you so much Barry.
Rest in peace ❤ to an absolute icon 🙏 thanks Dame Edna for the laughs 😅
What a quick wit...
You'd be hard pressed not to succumb to a healthy belly laugh.
Brilliance supreme as seen here.
RIP.
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.
Parky just goes along with it 😂brilliant 👏 hilarious 😁 r.i.p...barry...❤
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
Comedy gold. Dame Edna could arguably be the funniest 'Lady' ever in TV history. We salute you dear Barry Humphries!!
Most definitely ...
Parky always got on very well with Dame Edna and her friends.
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.
She can say whatever she likes and gets away with it. Bless her!
Barry was so good off the cuff, what a fucking legend.
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'm in love with Dame Edna... Been binge watching her videos since yesterday
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?
Dame Edna is quite naughty and absolutely brilliant. What a gem💜
Her timing is outstanding. Such a comic genius
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...
His mind is so fast and sharp. Nobody ad libs like Barry Humphries
Best thing to come out of Australia! Legend!
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 💖😊
Amazing as this might sound but Dame Edna ad libs pretty much everything you hear. Just brilliant. So quick!
barry's dame never fails to crack me up, such a brilliant conversationalist.
Love seeing Dame Edna with Michael Parkinson, they are magic together!
crystalheart9 so true
Priceless and timeless.
It’s astonishing how good Barry Humphries is doing Dame Edna as he does. Incredibly entertaining & brilliantly funny.
Michael Parkstone and Dame are amazing
She is absolutely fantastic...!!! Quick witted and just born for this role. God bless Dame Edna...!!!
Barry Humphries was 76 years old back then.......and not a bit old -so full of life !Amazing !
I think you mean he was 67.
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.
"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. 😂
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
A true genuis!! Thank you for the laughs!! 🤣RIP
Kunta Kinte. “Ooh I’m glad you didn’t abbreviate it, Leonard.” Spit-out-the-tea moment!
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!
What a wonderful faithful woman, buffing up her husband's obelisk.
Lenny Henry......as funny as watching an orphanage burn down.sitting next to a damn genius.........
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😂
Michael Parkinson is an amazing interviewer. With Dame Edna!! Wow. She is just wonderful. Just fantastic from the 3 of them. So clever and so entertaing. Love it.
Absolutely hysterical! One of Dame Edna's funniest interviews.
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.
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. 🎉
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.
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!
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’.
Never gets old so very funny, always cheers me up when feeling sad she is the best
We could use Edna's wisdom-laden humour these days. Time for an encore.
November 2024 the Dame is eternally humorous
Good old Parky, Edna on form as usual and great to see Lenny Henry as well. Shame we don't see Edna on tv as much these days but still great to see these old clips.
Dame Edna in Adelaide half a lifetime ago and she brought Sir Les and Sandy with her. What a great show that was and such a happy one. As usual she threw Gladies into the audience and I saw one heading toward me so I put my hand up to protect my face and caught it much to the annoyance of the person behind me who was hoping to catch it! How I treasured that flower and I dried it to look back on and remember that wonderful evening. Thanks to You Tube for keeping all those memories alive. I have watched those shows over and over again and they are so uplifting, every time. Thank you Barry / Dame Edna for your clever wit and happiness you gave us. Alas no more. 😢. R.I.P.
I listen and watch and am never ready for the laughter...simply delicious!
Me too! Comedy genius - no equal, even today!
OMG. "I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it, Leonard."
I dont catch the joke in this line.... Could you explain me? Thanks
The irrepressible and brilliant Barry Humphries! Oh what a laugh!
I live Dame Edna...such wit...and gets away with saying things while being so charming and silly.
“I’ve helped this show how many times ? “ 😂😂😂
If you can call it a show. 😂😉😂
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 👍
Really quick witted and an answered for everything.
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
He was so incredibly sharp and witty off the cuff...It's one thing having a prepared routine, but to be able to come back to questioning like that and be so funny. Absolute legend ! Is there anyone around now who is as funny as this off the cuff ? There was no filter with Dame Edna and yes sometimes, especially looking back there would have been an inappropriate bullet being fired off every now and then, but without that freedom you don't get that natural comeback and the flow of all the great lines live like this. People these days stop and think before they wise crack in case they upset someone and as such it's all become rather sterile.
I literally cried laughing at some of those comebacks and stories. Humour is such a tonic to difficult times.
Barry Humphrey is unbelievably talented.He can also write. I really enjoyed reading his memoir of growing up in Melbourne, and a more serious supposed novel called Women in the Background.
I had completely forgotten there was such a thing as Lenny Henry.
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..😆
So quick. Humphries walked into lunch at Tasmania's Launceston Hotel around 1970. Saw red flock wallpaper, red table-cloths, red upholstery ... and said instantly ... ''One feels like a tick in an abattoir''. Lunch for two. Such a privilege
"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....
Priceless. Dame Edna rules.
The best entertainer ever!
Don't take her on...she always wins!
How great a talent is this Dame?
If only Dame Edna could live forever not just in recorded videos with new hysterical material!
Did him dead? Now?🙎🙎
Barry is so superb and witty as Edna and Sir Les too.
I do love Dame Edna. What a character.
Barry Humphries the epitome of Aussie humour, Subversive, silly and laughing at yourself
A comedic Genius. Michael Parkinson was always an amazing partner during these segments. Both enhanced one another so Naturally. Both very generous. Both now moved on. Two more stars in heaven which is now Richer with their presence. Thank you Barry and Michael for sharing with us. Gods speed..
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
"I'm glad you didn't abbreviate it" brilliant !
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I think there is only one person in the world who could have come up with that joke on the spot and, thankfully, she was sitting right there. Comic genius.
I'm not a native English speaker so I completely missed the joke... could someone explain it to me? Thank you!
@@xchimino2 The first four letters of Kunte sound like the English word for coño--only it's a much more vulgar word in English than in Spanish; you could never say it on television.
Could you explain me foreign the joke you catch in thus line? K*** Is pronounced in another way than Kunta in Kunta Kinte.....
I LOVE HOW MICHAEL REACTS TO DAME EDNA😜😜😜😜😜😜😜. HE CANT STOP LAUGHING AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY ARE GOOD FRIENDS. SO SO FUNNY!!!!! JOANN LAMONICA ONEONTA NEW YORK
JoAnn Lamonica ❤️
Maybe not PC but oh, so very, very funny. Just what i need today!
This is as funny as anything I can remember seeing.
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!
Comic genius. That's our Barry Humphries.
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?
Stunning artist 😊❤
Dame Edna wouldn't get away with her cheekiness in 2021.
Barry Is a Genius and he gets Better and Better!
Lovely to see how sensitive Lenny Henry is, his paper thin vanity shrivelling under Dane Edna.
Lennie is about as funny as scratching your hemorrhoids with a chainsaw
I’m watching in 2019 and laughing.......
I don't manage to get through the first minutes without cracking up ....or the unbelievable desire to hit the "comments section" ....",most women would not admit to the fact that they are glad their husbands have died "....Lord , Dame Edna .....you are the voice of reason in the insanity Lockdown has become ! Thank you ....the original Possum.