Tony Award-winning comedian Barry Humphries, internationally renowned for his garish stage persona Dame Edna Everage, a condescending and imperfectly-veiled snob whose evolving character has delighted audiences over seven decades, has died. He was 89.
His death in the Sydney hospital, where he spent several days with complications following hip surgery, was confirmed by his family.
He told The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper last month that his physiotherapy had been "agony" following his fall and hip replacement. Edna is one of Humphries' several enduring characters. The next most famous is Sir Les Patterson, an ever-drunk, disheveled and lecherous Australian cultural attache. "A wondrously intelligent, entertaining, daring, provocative, mischievous comedy Genius," Morgan added.
He spent two years at Melbourne University, where he embraced Dadaism -- the subversive, anarchic and absurdist European art movement.
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