The Dame Edna Experience (1989) (01)

[@silvergirl2329]

When I want a laugh I watch an episode of Dame Edna...one of the best comedians in the world! RIP Barry Humphries. Simply the best.

[@sharonblondin2711]

Long live Dame Edna, now found hurtling around the globe in perpetuity. Thanks for the laughs Barry.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

30 years later and still amazingly funny. Definitely in the top ten funny acts of all time, brilliantly performed.

[@mutanazublond4391]

Who are you, and who cares about your opinion ...

[@grai]

@@mutanazublond4391 who are you? and who cares about your opinion?

[@crystalheart9]

This show is so much funnier than any show I've ever seen before or since.

[@georgetabadrajan7051]

Buna Flori

[@georgetabadrajan7051]

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[@msannthrope1863]

What an amazing person Barry Humphries is. So genuinely kind and brilliantly funny.

[@sweetgal38]

Comedy legend with style and class!❤

[@elizabethryan2678]

A true legend. We were lucky to have experienced his true brilliance

[@philchampion6234]

R.I.P. although I never met Barry in person, he was a special friend of my former girlfriend who also sadly passed away in the last few weeks. So special.

[@Patrick3183]

Rip

[@janetmaryettridge4141]

Ruperthumpfies

[@keriannandrews7362]

Barry, you truly were a GENIUS 😂 may you RIP 🎉 You will be remembered as a legend 😂

[@Simonj2109]

Still hilarious in 2023 RIP Dame Edna but never forgotten ❤

[@michaelsmith697]

Extremely brilliant, intelligent and very funny lady indeed!

[@randysills4418]

"Madge" lived to be 100 years old... ❤

[@l.w.i7478]

Anyone who tried to beat Dame Edna at her own game, lost. Anyone who just tried to play to her, lost. The only eye-to-eye (so to speak) conversation with her had Graham Norton in one of his shows: He took her on as a real person, not just mock-real; he was the only one who managed to engage HER, not the other way around. By devising a show who was cut out especially for her, he made her shine even more than she could make herself so.😊 Beautiful show-stuff. RIP Barry. We miss you.

[@somejailnursedontask4658]

It’s a clip I’ve seen it pop up this week, young Graham in a slick black jacket. I beg to differ Michael Parkinson was brilliant at giving her all the room she needed and letting her roll. After she died he said she was his favorite guest.

[@brettjaniec3933]

That's call upstaging! What you're talking about! But I don't think it happened...

[@alexthrill1386]

R.I.P Barry Humphries! (Dame Edna) 1934-2023

[@v8infinity8]

Such a Treasure we have lost. Vale Barry Humphries. I am a Melbourne Girl- we have loved him forever here.

[@crystalheart9]

Larry Hagman doing Dame Edna with a Texas accent 😂🤣😂🤣 Madge is a treasure, she is so funny just sitting there.

[@charlesdavis7087]

I LOVE Dame Edna. !! Thank you KZbin. I've never seen anyone since George Burns and Gracie Allen that made people both think... and laugh at the human situation... at the same time. What a joy she is. Where ever SHE... is... may she be surrounded (right now) in love and know she has blessed this little planet of ours. CVD

[@mishellcornell2160]

Charles Davis totally agree 😊

[@crystalheart9]

Me too as well.

[@bryantross572]

She is still alive and doing fine! She & her spouse have two sons & a daughter. She's a great & tall lady, & her sons are even taller. One is 6' 5" & the other is about 7' his name is Valentine (not Kenny). He works with fine arts & is an art dealer! All the children are married & have families of their own now! During the pandemic, spokesperson Barry Humphries, does interviews and talk shows from home (as of 2020)! The "LEGEND" lives on!!!

[@pattysherwood7091]

@@bryantross572 And the grandsons are beautiful musicians. One looks just like his grandfather!

[@elisabethpearl9790]

Gotta love the wicked and quick witted dame.....i like to laugh before going to sleep, so often listen to this wonderful comedian

[@SigmundJaehn]

Dame Edna is fantastic. Kilroy silk was a lump of wood.

[@tonihoger590]

RIP 🙏 Dane Edna. Sadly missed.

[@kukekene]

Hysterically funny! Poor ursula, laughing in agony...

[@trevorrandom]

Comedy on another level ☺

[@lindawitherspoon446]

I love this woman, I mean man. She is fantastic!!!

[@donaldwinkler1596]

When I was around 17 I was lucky to see her doing a live performance of the Dame Edna Experience format in Vienna at an art museum and even got her autograph inside her pauperback memoirs book! Still so funny to see this in 2024. RIP Barry Humphries!

[@johnstory2996]

So "knuffles" is Dutch for "possums" 😂

[@elsiemarina2572]

Kilroy Silk was astonishing in that he actually talked and got more than a word in edgeways lol.

[@janetmaryettridge4141]

Ruperthumfries

[@janetmaryettridge4141]

Oscarhumu

[@janetmaryettridge4141]

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[@sagat666]

Barry Humphries is untouchable * quite literally ~~

[@lucpraslan]

Lolololololol That Prisoner take-off! Fabulous 👍👍 (Cell Block H for UK-ers)

[@dizzydino1]

An Artist to be remembered ❤❤❤😊

[@lekkki1]

I would sign up for EdnaSat!

[@lilithlevaykjeldahl5257]

Great legs and dance style.

[@sandaglad]

An absolute riot! The "Lezzies in Prison" segment, Yehudi Menuin with Sir Les Patterson AND Dame Edna ("I only eat food with a picture of a cottage on the tin"), and Ursula Andress laughing until she must've wet her panties....pure comedy gold. Thank you for sharing.

[@3506Dodge]

This is psychotically funny!

[@HUK38]

"Quick sticks!" I stole that phrase from "her".

[@wendybarrow4697]

Brilliant!

[@stringer-ik1pc]

'I was hoping, you would raise my legs' 😂😂😂

[@spinozareader]

Moonee Ponds' greatest treasure. We miss you, Possums!

[@michaelburling]

I was at this show, recorded at the LWT studios...but didn't think it ever got aired in the UK. Does anyone know if it did?

[@michaelburling]

Ha ha, good for you David, you obviously had good taste as a child!

[@michaelburling]

To be honest, it was considered a bit of a disaster - the guests just didn't work. Robert Kilroy-Silk was wooden and poor Ursula Andress simply didn't understand the concept of the show. It was probably the only time I ever saw Dame Edna floundering.

[@michaelburling]

Hardly ever! It was whilst I was working at LWT in the 80s that I saw him so often.

[@GoDanielSmith]

Yes it was broadcast on 22nd December 1989 for a one-off Christmas Special after the second series of The Dame Edna Experience aired. After this, the 'Experience' series was cancelled by LWT.

[@michaelburling]

Thanks Daniel. I should have known that, working at LWT at the time. My memories of it were that none of the guests really worked out well with Edna. Kilroy-Silk was so wooden, and poor Ursula Andress just didn't understand the concept of the show!

[@eastbackbay]

“Ian” is such sexy silver fox.

[@MaryBlanche]

Are these on DVD?! 👑❤️

[@MaryBlanche]

@@mackkennedy4658 Thanks!! 🙏🏻❤️

[@WilliamMorris]

I dont remember this. Was it just one show?

[@SimonLiddo]

William Morris hi William. Yes, it was a one off curio that Barry recorded at the LWT Studio on London’s South Bank. Barry was kind enough to put me on his guest list. It was recorded in front of a very small afternoon audience largely because the was a total London Transport strike that day. We had to walk miles to reach the studio. Joyous memories none the less.

[@mishellcornell2160]

so funny i love it

[@poobum9857]

she got him on the hypen!!!

[@burgersbeansandchips]

Cornshire!

[@TheFever77]

Robert Kilroy-Silk was one very attractive man.

[@graemeking7336]

The constant laugh track is just a little over the top...

[@l.w.i7478]

At the time it was the done thing…

[@judyquinton5912]

Another Liberace, but he stayed Male

[@davethebrahman9870]

Yehudi Menuhin played at Bergen-Belsen for the victims after liberation. Of course he was far too special and important to fight or die to free them, like millions of other young men did.

[@lisagerman2111]

Aspects of immigrations, economic vs life threatening, remain with perhaps greater impact than when this wa produced 3 years ago. And perhaps, the current stance of the U.S. gov.t in immediately assigning a criminal indictment to every person crossing the border prior to their even being able to claim asylum, needs review in re to our Constitution and the availability of our laws and defensives for those who come from countries that are engaging in willful slaughter of their own people. "...Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor..." - it's time for Americans to draw a line in the sand between Trump admin.'s hateful rhetoric vs the founding principles of the country he presumes to lead.

[@bryantross572]

Thank you for sharing and speaking up, I agree!

[@lockbert99]

Countries around the world, including the United States, do not have laws accepting economic migrants claiming "crime asylum". The only reason we accept Central Americans (and not Mexicans, even though they have a ton of crime) claiming the unverifiable "crime asylum" is from one or more judge's (lawyers in robes) decisions. The poem (not the US Constitution) near the Statue of LIBERTY romanticized economic migration and has been an important tool for indoctrinating the masses to not just allowing a continuous stream of people into finite metro areas, but to get them to wax on about it.