Dame Edna learns camera technique

Title:
Dame Edna learns camera technique
NFSA ID
495724
Year
1985
Courtesy
Mike Walsh AM, OBE Hayden Productions
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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