Richard Gere was so hammered. He didn't know quite how to handle it but did well. Lauren Bacall was an absolute joy! Barry Humphries was again, a genius!
Yes, Gere's backtalk is futile. I'm afraid he carries a little too much anger around under that smile, and Dame Edna (not to mention the Dalai Lama) picked up on it. Real strength for him would have been to submit and enjoy the display of her unsinkable ego.
Yes, Americans have a difficult time, laughing at themselves. The exceptions were Cher and Joan Rivers and to a lesser extent, Alec Baldwin. As the Dame would say, " Alec, tell me about your new movie. I think it's called Rust."
@@tonyneal4716 I disagree, if that was the case then the film Borat would have gone down in America like a lead balloon when it was released, but it was a gigantic hit. Americans can laugh at themselves but we don't always see that outside of there.
Dame Edna essentially does a monologue that largely ignores the host and keeps the other guests on the edge of their seats anticipating what hilarious remark she’ll make next. They clearly enjoyed her off-the-wall humor!
Agreed! That's a pattern seen over and over in many talk shows she's been in. RIP wonderful Barry Humphries. I'm so glad there are so many clips on YT so more people can share the experience.
Oh my God! When I need a good laugh.... no matter how many times I've seen it before. It never gets old.... Dame Edna does it for me. Martin Short as Jiminy Glick has my humour heart equally. They make my life better. Geniuses of comedy and hearts. Thank you!
@@sugarplumfairy420 Oh my God. Now I will not be able to get out of my mind the FANTASY of Glick and Edna on the same stage, or Glick interviewing her! Thanks for that, I needed a laugh!
Would have loved to have seen Dame Edna on stage live She was definitely a one off Will be sadly missed but at least we can watch WONDERFYL CLIPS LIKE THESE RIP 🙏 BARRY (DAME EDNA) 😇
Absolute genius. I can watch the same show over and over and laugh hysterically each time and be equally impressed with this amazing talent. Fortunately I saw a Dame Edna on Broadway many times and the way she deals with each audience It's a Marvel to behold.
I love Dame Enda. Was lucky enough to see her live with my daughter. We enjoyed every minute of the show. Didn't want it to end. Thank you for posting this.
It's incredible how the host of these talk shows just fade into obscurity when Dame Edna steps on stage. They may as well not be there 😂 She is electric and demands the attention, she becomes the host herself.
The impressive elegance of Madame Bacall and the sharp and smart British humour of Dame Edna are the perfect match. Glorious times. Edit: the sharp and smart Australian humour of Dame Edna. Re edit: Rest in Peace Dame Edna, they will have fun in heaven with you!
How do you cope with Dame Edna as a fellow guest? Such a gift for imaginative with with no fear or favour for the eminence of those alongside. Heaven must be in uproar right now, ringing with celestial laughter.
Dame Edna - never before, never again. I can't believe she's gone. Aspel - not quite in the same league as Parky. But the relationship was probably not as close. Anyway DE and MP - live forever, wherever you are. The world was a better place when you were both in it ❤
We saw her in the 90s. We were driving through San Francisco and saw that she was performing there that night and quickly bought tickets. My husband didn’t know what he was in for, but we both howled with laughter. Funnier in person. She was outrageously witty.
@@riverland22 Had the baby of the Yorks been named Katie, her initials would be KY, which reminds people my age of K-Y Jelly, a decades-old personal lubricant.
Yes, she said, you could get on slippery ground with that one. Possibly the best joke of the evening, but it slipped by so quickly it was missed. Glad someone caught it! Katie York. KY. Jelly. Delightful Dame! Loved it when she said she was jealous of Lauren, too!
On stage Barry was magnuficent.My brother waz waiting for me outside the theatre once and mistook the roaring laughter for screaming.He ' brought the house down ' right to the end of the show.
When dame Edna began to make it big on international tv many of the American stars just couldn’t understand all the Australian turns of phrase and emphasis that dame Edna has in her voice but that’s part of her humour is the phrasing, her intonation and Aussie accent. The way she rolls her eyes or screws up her mouth. It’s very Australian. So barbed and cruel in many ways. Aussies love that. They don’t take anyone seriously, least of all “stars”, politicians or leaders. So the big American stars are often mystified as to why everyone else is laughing with the Dame and not bowing down to them, which they seem to imagine is what a chat show is about! Silly them!!!! American humour isn’t about the laconic or the ironic as British and Aussie humour is. Americans are more slapstick and not about self-deprecation. You’ll Notice some of the dame’s early shows in the states on chat shows with people like George Hamilton just went over his head as do her jokes here with Richard Gere. Lauren Bacall on the other hand (like Joan Rivers, both Jewish) had a better appreciation having come from a stronger tradition of theatre and a variety of performance styles since her early days. I think being Jewish as well gave her an appreciation for Humphries camp pantomime schtick. Joan collins, on other shows, being British , understood Humphries so she loved it all. But I find watching Gere dumbfounded here quite cringey. He’s so tortured and uncomfortable because Edna is pricking his big fat Hollywood ego endlessly. Which is the whole point of comedy. It’s a great masterclass in the differences between Britannic, Colonial and American humour to watch chat shows starring dame Edna and big American stars. In this case: old Hollywood in Bacall versus new Hollywood in Gere. Old Hollywood types were so much more exposed in their training to the traditions of musical theatre, slapstick, vaudeville, camp and pantomime to which Humphries belonged. So they “get it.” When you watch Humphries in his prime it makes you realise how pathetically untalented and overrated many big American stars actually are. They’re really just famous for their looks, sex appeal or their style. Most aren’t that funny or even that talented. Case in point with Gere, here. I think he took himself way too seriously.
Joan Collins is also Jewish. But what that's got to do with Edna is anyone's guess. Americans can be hilariously funny you just need to get out more. Richard Gere was uncomfortable because Barry Humphries, being Australian, was doing everything he could to make him feel uncomfortable. Australians like to do that with famous people. Under the circumstances I thought Richard Gere was amazingly cool. I don't think you get Edna at all by the way. You're confusing pantomime schtick with satire.
Omg! She is so funny! Death is so unfair! It's just wrong. She makes me laugh so hard! She is just so, so, so funny! To spark such joy, to make one laugh so hard. I literally have tears streaming down my face.
@@georgeplagianos6487 I’m 62 Year old Australian and All the rapiers I’ve seen in my life are blunted and all they do is smack each other with them .I like academics because on occasion they are funny and they don’t even know it. ;)) Barry was a comic genius. Ill leave it there.
.. 'for being on the Michael Aspel's show' (the host). Completely taking over his over place... and then thanking him for being on his own show. So funny.
Dame Edna needed no co-pilot. If the host of the show made the mistake of thinking they were still the host of the show when she was there it never went well.
So sad that Dame Edna has left us. Thankyou for so much fun.
I'm also very sad that Dame Edna has left us!🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂
She’s just stepped down the street for a bag of crisps…
She made me laugh through hard times. I'll miss her humor, style, and audacity. RIP Madame. I'll love you always.
@@bonniehutchinsonliwinsky7799 Correction. It was a He, not a She.
I couldn't believe it was a year ago! I had to google it. And I still can't believe it.
I love the way she just came in and took over the entire show. What a star!
She ALWAYS takes over the show. That's her trademark.😟😬
Yes woe betide a guest who tries to top Edna.
@@reidphx A"MEGA STAR" 🤣🤣🙂💫
RIP, Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna Everage. You brought to much laughter to a weary world for so many years. Thank you!
It must have been a joy to make Lauren Bacall laugh like that. She was such a smart lady.
I'm sure Barry Humphries considered it a rare privillege to entertain such a legendary showbiz icon.
Lauren Bacall was wonderful; she completely ‘got it’.
Lauren Bacall did not suffer fools. She clearly loved Dame Edna and the irreverent sharp wit.
@@chriscunningham8807 ...and Bacall was stunning, full of life. Good God, I couldn't take my eyes off her.
I loved how much she was laughing in this 😆 what a great sense of humour she has 😍
Richard Gere was so hammered. He didn't know quite how to handle it but did well. Lauren Bacall was an absolute joy!
Barry Humphries was again, a genius!
Yes, Gere's backtalk is futile. I'm afraid he carries a little too much anger around under that smile, and Dame Edna (not to mention the Dalai Lama) picked up on it. Real strength for him would have been to submit and enjoy the display of her unsinkable ego.
Yes, Americans have a difficult time, laughing at themselves. The exceptions were Cher and Joan Rivers and to a lesser extent, Alec Baldwin. As the Dame would say, " Alec, tell me about your new movie. I think it's called Rust."
@@tonyneal4716
Lauren Bacall's certainly American & I don't think she has trouble at all !
Don't forget, Richard Gere is an actor, and the rest is bullshit, you must be a mushroom, only mushrooms thrive on bullshit.
@@tonyneal4716 I disagree, if that was the case then the film Borat would have gone down in America like a lead balloon when it was released, but it was a gigantic hit. Americans can laugh at themselves but we don't always see that outside of there.
quite a good combination. 2 of the most attractive stars in the World and Richard Gere
Richard Gere was overwhelmed..Edna had the whole interview just playing the part that she was such a genius at..
I need a dose of Dame Edna every now again when life gets too hard.
You are so right😂😂😂
Agreed
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
Dame Edna hasn't failed me yet.
@@ukrandr How are you doing pretty ?
This is a masterclass of comedic delivery and ad lib hilarity. ❤
I saw dame Edna in Orange County, California about 10 years ago, she was hysterical, the entire audience was in stitches. You are missed❤
You can see Lauren Bacall is totally enamoured with Dame Edna she didnt take her eyes off her.
Dame Edna essentially does a monologue that largely ignores the host and keeps the other guests on the edge of their seats anticipating what hilarious remark she’ll make next. They clearly enjoyed her off-the-wall humor!
Agreed! That's a pattern seen over and over in many talk shows she's been in. RIP wonderful Barry Humphries. I'm so glad there are so many clips on YT so more people can share the experience.
British talk show hosts are a higher level than US ones, they know it’s not about them and happily sit back and let their guests talk
I though Michael Aspinall was the only person in the room not to find Edna funny.@@rodsmith7032
Actually, Richard Gere hated it and threatened to sue LWT to prevent it being broadcast. Thankfully, unsuccessfully.
Oh my God! When I need a good laugh.... no matter how many times I've seen it before. It never gets old.... Dame Edna does it for me. Martin Short as Jiminy Glick has my humour heart equally. They make my life better. Geniuses of comedy and hearts. Thank you!
Totally agree on both. Always think I will split a kidney from laughing so hard at Jiminy Glick. Also Dame Edna too! Absolute geniuses.
@@sugarplumfairy420 Oh my God. Now I will not be able to get out of my mind the FANTASY of Glick and Edna on the same stage, or Glick interviewing her! Thanks for that, I needed a laugh!
Add the late Robin Williams into the mix & you would have had a comedic trifecta of hilarity.
Agree! Barry Humphries and Martin Short are my favorite comedians! And I'm not even Australian or Canadian...
I'm sad that BH passed away...
Lauren Bacall having an absolute scream.
Yep and went on to appear on Dame Edna's own chat show singing with Edna and Tom Jones😁
Dame Edna is a force of nature. I feel jealous of those who've been fortunate enough to see her live on stage.
I’m one of those people. I saw her live on Broadway. She was hilarious as always.
I've seen her live, I was in the front row at the theatre and she even spoke to me. She's fabulous.
I saw her live in San Francisco.
I learned to not sit in the first row, you are fodder for the night. She is brutally funny.
I saw her live in San Francisco…
Saw her and the others in Sydney in around 1981...hilarious.
I had to have a dose of Dame Edna. Such a lovable character.
Lauren Bacall is a stunning classical beauty❤
I saw her live in Auckland new Zealand i laughed so hard it hurt 😂 best night out ever
Would have loved to have seen Dame Edna on stage live
She was definitely a one off
Will be sadly missed but at least we can watch WONDERFYL CLIPS LIKE THESE
RIP 🙏 BARRY (DAME EDNA) 😇
I was lucky to see Dame Edna (and Les Patterson) on Barry Humphries farewell tour in Glasgow, a lifetime ambition and I caught a gladdy too!
Comedy legend. What a rapier wit. Brilliant.
Never disappoints, Barry is absolutely 💯 awesome 👍 still laughing 😂
I'm here paying tribute to the one and only Dame Edna...
Brilliant as always...Richard Gere looked fed up towards the end- he should have just enjoyed the humour
I would teed off if Edna referred this little schmeckle as a ..........
Gere always had a stratospheric opinion of himself, and very little sense of humour.
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
I am amazed how Richard Gere enjoyed and got into instantly the Dame Edna show. Lauren Becall equally got into Dame Edna.
Dame Edna is magnificent - my dream dinner party guest ❤️
According to a London neighbor, Barry was a nightmare guest.
Dame Edna took over the show. So entertaining. Rip happy afterlife, keep the Angels laughing ❤❤❤
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
Absolute genius. I can watch the same show over and over and laugh hysterically each time and be equally impressed with this amazing talent. Fortunately I saw a Dame Edna on Broadway many times and the way she deals with each audience It's a Marvel to behold.
I love Dame Enda. Was lucky enough to see her live with my daughter. We enjoyed every minute of the show. Didn't want it to end. Thank you for posting this.
Amazing, how long did she live with your daughter - was it a flat share?
@@MrVorpalsword Wow, did you come with that yourself or did yo get help?
🤣🤣@@MrVorpalsword
‘Think of the initials, KY - you could be on quiet slippery ground’ -LMAO
I loved how Richard Gere immediately kissed Dame Edna. Lauren Bacall was just, "Wait, what is this?" Hahahaha. Just lovely.
It's incredible how the host of these talk shows just fade into obscurity when Dame Edna steps on stage. They may as well not be there 😂 She is electric and demands the attention, she becomes the host herself.
Dame Edna never fails to have me laughing out loud. The spontaneity of her wit is astounding.
The impressive elegance of Madame Bacall and the sharp and smart British humour of Dame Edna are the perfect match.
Glorious times.
Edit: the sharp and smart Australian humour of Dame Edna.
Re edit: Rest in Peace Dame Edna, they will have fun in heaven with you!
Not British ...AUSTRALIAN !!
@@beentheredonethat1525 Yes, but you're only Australian because we needed a place to stash the convicts.
My bad. I thought she was British.
Australian humour so!
@@organisationxiv2927 nah mate south Australia is a free colony.
No convicts here.
@@organisationxiv2927 as a first indigenous Aussie, you can kiss my butt!! 🤣😂🤣
How do you cope with Dame Edna as a fellow guest? Such a gift for imaginative
with with no fear or favour for the eminence of those alongside. Heaven must
be in uproar right now, ringing with celestial laughter.
God rest her soul! Thank you for the humor and laughter…..such a gem we lost 4/22/23
We did not just lose dame Edna we lost the genius that was Barry Humphries. Sir Les, Sandy, and all the crazy things that they all say.
Dame Edna - never before, never again. I can't believe she's gone. Aspel - not quite in the same league as Parky. But the relationship was probably not as close. Anyway DE and MP - live forever, wherever you are. The world was a better place when you were both in it ❤
👏👏👏Very well said.
R.I.P BARRY HUMPHRIES YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. ❤
😂😂😂. It's been awhile, still absolutely Hilarious 😂
Dame Edna 😂you’re truly a genius 😂you will be sadly missed 😂
Loved that Lauren Bacall really enjoyed the dame. Laughing out loud.
8:40 the KY gag slipped past both of them! 🙃Vale Barry
Fantastic 😂😂
Rest in Peace and thanks for the memories Dame Edna.
So much whimsical fun. Thank you Barry.
She was so quickwitted… Absolutely incredibly funny. I miss you Dame Edna but someday I shall see you in heaven. ☁☁☁
Glad we can still see Dame Edna.
Love Love Love the persona of Dame Edna what a showman.
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
We saw her in the 90s. We were driving through San Francisco and saw that she was performing there that night and quickly bought tickets. My husband didn’t know what he was in for, but we both howled with laughter. Funnier in person. She was outrageously witty.
Thank goodness for film, Dame Edna will live forever.
Legend Lauren Bacall !!
So funny, love her !!
8:50 The KY joke going straight over Gere's head...
A magnum opusof a performance. A performance unmatched. Good night sweet princess.
I saw Back With A Vengence in London in 1988. I will remember it my whole life. It was GREAT. I saw DEE again in Denver decades later. A treat.
RIP Dame Edna.
They didn't get the KY joke, and it's a pity, it was priceless.
I didn't get it either. What does it mean?
@@riverland22 Had the baby of the Yorks been named Katie, her initials would be KY, which reminds people my age of K-Y Jelly, a decades-old personal lubricant.
@@desiderius82 ah got it 😁
Yes, she said, you could get on slippery ground with that one. Possibly the best joke of the evening, but it slipped by so quickly it was missed. Glad someone caught it! Katie York. KY. Jelly. Delightful Dame! Loved it when she said she was jealous of Lauren, too!
Dame Edna was pure gold ❤
On stage Barry was magnuficent.My brother waz waiting for me outside the theatre once and mistook the roaring laughter for screaming.He ' brought the house down ' right to the end of the show.
May Dame Edna rest in peace.
A true legend. ❤
RIP Barry ❤❤❤❤❤ seen Dame Edna in the 1990s Fab 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
as per usual Dame Edna just completely takes over the show. The hosts don't even need to be there.
Great video - god I laughed
So funny will be sadly missed by most people, will be unplaceable.
Master class in responsive comedy. RG couldn’t keep up.
RIP Dame Edna!
This is good but the Michael Parkinson interview with Judi Densch and Sharon Osbourne is spectacular.
ALWAYS LOVED, ALWAYS MISSED.
❤❤❤
None of them get a word in.
Brilliant
When dame Edna began to make it big on international tv many of the American stars just couldn’t understand all the Australian turns of phrase and emphasis that dame Edna has in her voice but that’s part of her
humour is the phrasing, her intonation and Aussie accent. The way she rolls her eyes or screws up her mouth. It’s very Australian. So barbed and cruel in many ways. Aussies love that. They don’t take anyone seriously, least of all “stars”, politicians or leaders. So the big American stars are often mystified as to why everyone else is laughing with the Dame and not bowing down to them, which they seem to imagine is what a chat show is about! Silly them!!!! American humour isn’t about the laconic or the ironic as British and Aussie humour is. Americans are more slapstick and not about self-deprecation. You’ll
Notice some of the dame’s early shows in the states on chat shows with people like George Hamilton just went over his head as do her jokes here with Richard Gere. Lauren Bacall on the other hand (like Joan Rivers, both Jewish) had a better appreciation having come from a stronger tradition of theatre and a variety of performance styles since her early days. I think being Jewish as well gave her an appreciation for Humphries camp pantomime schtick. Joan collins, on other shows, being British , understood Humphries so she loved it all. But I find watching Gere dumbfounded here quite cringey. He’s so tortured and uncomfortable because Edna is pricking his big fat Hollywood ego endlessly. Which is the whole point of comedy. It’s a great masterclass in the differences between Britannic, Colonial and American humour to watch chat shows starring dame Edna and big American stars. In this case: old Hollywood in Bacall versus new Hollywood in Gere. Old Hollywood types were so much more exposed in their training to the traditions of musical theatre, slapstick, vaudeville, camp and pantomime to which Humphries belonged. So they “get it.” When you watch Humphries in his prime it makes you realise how pathetically untalented and overrated many big American stars actually are. They’re really just famous for their looks, sex appeal or their style. Most aren’t that funny or even that talented. Case in point with Gere, here. I think he took himself way too seriously.
Joan Collins is also Jewish. But what that's got to do with Edna is anyone's guess. Americans can be hilariously funny you just need to get out more. Richard Gere was uncomfortable because Barry Humphries, being Australian, was doing everything he could to make him feel uncomfortable. Australians like to do that with famous people. Under the circumstances I thought Richard Gere was amazingly cool. I don't think you get Edna at all by the way. You're confusing pantomime schtick with satire.
Just brilliant, good night Possums 🏖️
Omg! She is so funny! Death is so unfair! It's just wrong.
She makes me laugh so hard! She is just so, so, so funny! To spark such joy, to make one laugh so hard. I literally have tears streaming down my face.
Do so agree 👍
Yes brilliant character and sir Les, my favourite with Enda is Parkinson with Judy Dench
Such a master of shameless backhanded comments. Puts the big wigs in their place so nicely
Genius
It took real guts to play that character how she did
Richard Gere in his prime. I don't care what state's he's in
If I could turn back time...
Could Betty Bacall be more glamorous?
"Lauren" !!!!!!!!
@@judedonnelly4100 Lauren was her stage name everyone used her real name, Betty, including herself
Wonderful entertainer RIP
Add lib comedy genius, sharp as a knife. And from Moonee Ponds 😂
You mean using the queen's English "a rapier wit"
@@georgeplagianos6487 I’m 62 Year old Australian and All the rapiers I’ve seen in my life are blunted and all they do is smack each other with them .I like academics because on occasion they are funny and they don’t even know it. ;)) Barry was a comic genius. Ill leave it there.
Wow !!!! Richard Gere has no sense of humour. What’s wrong with him and them????
Lauren Bacall… so intelligent, great sense of humour.
with these clips it would be nice to know which year. Since they were talking about Fergie's baby I would imagine v late Eighties
She is something else.
She was amazing.
Brilliant! apart from his movies, Richard Gere is a very shy guy, reserved and unassuming, but he did laugh at Dame Edna!!! 😂
Fantastic Barry Edna❤❤❤
The best
"I never considered myself to be a drag queen, I was just an actor who played funny characters!"....Barry Humphries.
They didnt get the KY "jelly" joke
Brilliant-absolute genius 🤩
She's clearly pissed off Richard Gere
Richard Gere was a sexy dude.
Poor Richard, don’t think he got the Ozzie/British humour, or he just didn’t have a sense of humour 😂.
Richard gere is lost😂
Such a remarkable woman ! 🙂
Edna puts everyone else in the shade....have to wander if we all should brighten up our wardrobes.
Love love love Dame Edna….but I would laugh so hard and wet my pants…..
Can anyone tell me what Dane E said at the end after “… And I’d like to thank you for… “ something something? It got one of the biggest laughs.
.. 'for being on the Michael Aspel's show' (the host).
Completely taking over his over place... and then thanking him for being on his own show. So funny.
@@David_Polak Thanks! That’s very funny!
Richard got lost a quarter way through.Lauren got it,all the way.
Lauren looks really young for 2022!
Sorry, Darling. This was 1988.
Dame Edna needed no co-pilot. If the host of the show made the mistake of thinking they were still the host of the show when she was there it never went well.
Gere isn’t the sharpest is he?
Gere is too busy sussing her out