Dame Edna Finland 1995

Dame Edna guesting Helsinki, Finland in 1995 at The Venla Gala. (Annual prize ceremony for best TV production in Finland).
YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company. Introducing: Benny Grönroos (composer to the Moomin children song that Dame Edna refers to in the beginning: "Mama-ma-ma-ma-ma! Papa-pa-pa-pa-pa!") .
Conductor: Anders Neglin.

[@groumeliotis1]

I love how she/he respects the audience. Does research on local stuff to incorporate into the act. Slows down and enunciates clearly. A consumate performer. Still, a tough audience.

[@joaobrandao9482]

What an entertainer! Even with that crowd!

[@Bandido894]

Don't mock a crowd, which isn't English by their native language!

[@dave_goldcrest]

They had no idea what was happening and s/he still broke through and entertained. Fantastic.

[@suuli777]

They did understand, Finnish people are more reserved.

[@dave_goldcrest]

It must be very painful being even more reserved than the British.

[@davidhensley76]

Kenny did a good job on that dress.

[@pattysherwood7091]

Dame Edna makes me want to be a better person.

[@preciousdevere288]

Dame Edna is simply gorgeous and amazing! Saw her at the Theatre at her London show she threw me a gladioli! X

[@erichoberg3502]

I got two gladdies at Her Royal Majesty's Theatre in Adelaide in the mid 90's then got berated for being greedy.

[@preciousdevere288]

@@erichoberg3502 Oh Eric that's Edna for you! X

[@preciousdevere288]

@@erichoberg3502 That's Edna for you! X

[@kguy152000]

The only person who could get an entire audience to sit on the floor within 1 minute.

[@janiceelliott413]

Love dame edna. There'll be no other. Clever funny and witty.

[@Shane-Flanagan]

A One off, we'll never see the likes of again

[@DaveFisher1]

Edna is definitely a one-off.

[@Shane-Flanagan]

Never get tired of watching the dame. Always hilarious. Never resorts to bad language and outright Vulgarity. Keeps it classy. 🙏😅🌹

[@bloodgrss]

It is actually funnier. My first experience at a French 'nude, beach was eyeopening; actually 'covering' with suits is much more alluringly sexy...same with allusion over raw speech.

[@Shane-Flanagan]

@@bloodgrss What???

[@bloodgrss]

@@Shane-Flanagan Hmmm, I need to explain? Alluding to blue concepts WITHOUT blue language is IMHO funnier and more clever; as the only clothed person in a room of nakedness is more interesting...

[@Shane-Flanagan]

@@bloodgrss Dame Edna is a legend and incredibly funny. Simple as. If you can't see that then that is your problem

[@bloodgrss]

@@Shane-Flanagan Oh, my dear over reacting possum! Barry Humphries (you do know it is a man inside the Dame?) is one of the greats. You obviously missed my point and did not understand it. So be it; that is YOUR problem.

[@rikastander9700]

AMAZING GIFT FOR COMEDY...THE DRESSES ARE OUTRAGEOUSLY GRAND...WONDERFUL AUSTRALIAN

[@Bandido894]

Not only funny, but smart enough to studying the things about country she's visiting. Minna Canth, Ilkka Kanerva. :)

[@cliveagoodwill2553]

Incredible as Always.

[@carolinegriffiths1]

Brilliant!

[@peachesmcgee4795]

Clever how she researches a place before going.they were loving all the references to famous people.

[@evverrette1]

Love the gown.

[@ardivachambers6927]

Love "Dame Edna! "

[@moosey62]

A was Minna Cahnt. The funniest line I ever heard.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

A(+)Mazing!

[@ivanigorpollick6690]

she made it,but was not easy

[@Hajnikovmuz]

strange to watch Edna's performance with moderate laughter...

[@TheOnlyWil]

Peter Zagar most of them probably couldn’t speak English

[@Bandido894]

@@TheOnlyWil Most? In Finland English is spoken (or understood) even better than it's second official language Swedish.

[@doddsalfa]

Really

[@Michael.Chapman]

Entertainment royalty :-)

[@irenewilliams1503]

Lol I like it the chairs got sold next the glasses and hair

[@amber5555100]

Sit down possums 😂😂

[@melmo5218]

Saw her in Bangkok, I think in 1995.

[@anneofgreengables1619]

Hilarious

[@jeanettesteed3326]

I really annoyed, she has better legs than me and I’m a woman!!

[@InFltSvc]

He had a hard time with this audience, they did not laugh near as much

[@Bandido894]

Not hard time at all! Not being English as their native language, they laughed enough! Can see you don't know nothing about Finns or Finnish culture, they are not same than British!

[@preciousdevere288]

There a funny old lot the Finns

[@InFltSvc]

@@Bandido894 Whatever!

[@rosalindmartin4469]

She IS wonderfully comic and totally clever for os many yrs.
(Still, "blackface" for me as a gay woman in the U.S. where high value given to BIG and KILLER ENTERTAINING😂)

[@1911olympic]

The public is undercooled to say the least.

[@moosey62]

Bullshit. You should have been there.

[@1911olympic]

@@moosey62 I was.

[@stevegordon8474]

Edna says Russia's biggest export is criminals. So right. Russia exported them to Ukraine.

[@Forza8423]

Bad

[@jacquelinedirk3777]

😳

[@toehead20007]

Ugh