newyorker: John Lahr on “Eat, Pray, Laugh!,” Dame Edna, and the comic genius of Barry Humphries: http://nyr.kr/IHZxOK “Humphries, a dandy and a Dadaist, first launched Dame Edna at the somnolent suburban burgers of Melbourne in the mid-fifties.

newyorker: John Lahr on “Eat, Pray, Laugh!,” Dame Edna, and the comic genius of Barry Humphries: http://nyr.kr/IHZxOK “Humphries, a dandy and a Dadaist, first launched Dame Edna at the somnolent suburban burgers of Melbourne in the mid-fifties.

newyorker: John Lahr on “Eat, Pray, Laugh!,” Dame Edna, and the comic genius