His Gorgeous Life

an appreciation of Barry Humphries

IT HAD to happen. It happens to everybody, even the most vibrant, energetic and vivid beings, and when it was announced that Barry Humphries (1934-2023) had been taken into hospital seriously ill our spirits plummeted. As an unseen, anonymous act of love and support, a remote vigil, we watched an Arena documentary from 1979 of Dame Edna Everage in her s…