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Dame Edna learns camera technique

1985

Dame Edna learns camera technique

1985

  • NFSA IDDA176B13
  • TypeTelevision
  • MediumMoving Image
  • FormSpecial (a one off program for TV or Radio)
  • GenresVariety show
  • Year1985

Dame Edna Everage, and her alter ego Barry Humphries, is a favourite on The Mike Walsh Show, even hosting the show on occasion.

Here Everage steals the show with her Tina Turner-style wig and use of 'camera technique' to steal the limelight from the host. Walsh goes with it and the live studio audience loves it.

Everage is a big name-dropper and here she talks about Queen Elizabeth II and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam - who conferred her Damehood upon her.

This clip is from The Mike Walsh Show in 1985.

Notes by Beth Taylor

Courtesy of
Mike Walsh AM, OBE Hayden Productions

Dame Edna Everage, and her alter ego Barry Humphries, is a favourite on The Mike Walsh Show, even hosting the show on occasion.

Here Everage steals the show with her Tina Turner-style wig and use of 'camera technique' to steal the limelight from the host. Walsh goes with it and the live studio audience loves it.

Everage is a big name-dropper and here she talks about Queen Elizabeth II and former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam - who conferred her Damehood upon her.

This clip is from The Mike Walsh Show in 1985.

Notes by Beth Taylor

Courtesy of
Mike Walsh AM, OBE Hayden Productions
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