Barry Humphries dies aged 89

She's no ordinary star, she's a megastar! Larger than life and brimming with wit and hilarity, she's Dame Edna Everage! And she's inviting you to explore all her nooks and crannies in The Dame Edna Experience.

Available for the first time ever, this series of six variety/chat shows (or, as Dame Edna calls them, "monologues interrupted by total strangers") is guaranteed to keep you in stitches.

Celebrity guests (foils for Dame Edna's rapier wit) include Sean Connery, Charlton Heston, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jane Seymour, Larry Hagman, Rudolf Nureyev and Joan Rivers.

First released: Sunday 8th April 2007

Unarguably Australia's greatest export, Housewife Superstar Dame Edna Everage takes time out of her busy schedule to answer questions about her life and voice her opinions to a star-studded audience on no less than three separate occasions.

Star of stage and screen, her presence, charm and wit has graced television screens since the late 1960s from when she has been propelled from just being an average housewife into the media megastar we know and love today. Her television shows are always highly successful - both with critics and viewers, so much so that An Audience With Dame Edna won a BAFTA in 1980 for Best Entertainment Programme.

This release features all three An Audience With... shows that Dame Edna starred in and will appeal to everyone, darlings!

First released: Monday 14th November 2005

Get a fascinating insight into the man behind the make-up and glasses in Barry Humphries's one and only autobiography.

Because Barry Humphries has deliberately furnished would-be biographers with whimsical fictions and blatant mystifications, the true details of his life are among the best-kept secrets of our time. More Please, prophetically his first utterance, reveals the man behind the actor.

This best-selling book moves from suburban Australia of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to Humphries's international stardom and his revelations and confessions will astonish his vast audience, being so wildly at odds with all that has gone before.

First published: Monday 21st September 1992

Taking up where the hugely popular More Please left off, this memoir brings Barry's autobiography up-to-date, but also returns to his early and middle years to deepen the picture already presented.

It explores his remaking of himself, his love/hate relationship with Australia and his adventures of the heart and stage.

First published: Thursday 28th November 2002

The real story behind Dame Edna, the international superstar!

In this unauthorised biography of Dame Edna Everage, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, her long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries, takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times.

Superstar, swami, confidante and advisor to royalty, Hollywood stars and international political leaders, Dame Edna's life has catapulted her from her humble Moonee Ponds beginnings as a suburban housewife to the most elite social and artistic circles in the world.

Who would have thought that this modest Australian woman could achieve so much from London to Louisiana to New York to Tokyo? Who could have anticipated her global fame? Barry Humphries certainly didn't.

Dame Edna may not like this book but Barry knows everything - the who, the why and the where - and in this much-anticipated work, for the first time, he reveals all. This exhaustively researched account of Edna's roller-coaster life is essential reading for scholars, female achievers, fans of Dame Edna and those who feel that behind the fairy-tale career lies a darker and more sinister story...

First published: Thursday 16th September 2010

In A Warm Hand Barry and his co-writer for half a century, Ian Davidson, rifle through a boxful of hilarious memories, anecdotes and the best of the scripts, unmasking Dame Edna Everage, Les Patterson, the appalling Lance Boyle and Barry's other creations, to reveal the comic genius within.

Originally ill at ease at being himself, this dandified Salvador Dali of the stage delved deep to discover his expansive repertoire of character and innuendo, which blurs the boundaries between surrealism, satire and plain bullying.

Pre-eminent is Dame Edna, the cunning-linguist who reels in her audiences with cutting-edge wordplay and so humiliates them that we fear there will indeed be 'tears before bed-time'. But then the crying pathos of her poor victim's life yields to its comic possibilities which she pursues as relentlessly, so to ensure that in the end our only tears are those of helpless laughter.

Illustrated with 22 photographs, many of them in colour, this is a book for all who have enjoyed more than half a century of Barry Humphries's penetrating art, including would-be writers, actors, directors, producers - anyone with an interest in an insider's view of how he came to take the worldwide stage by storm.

First published: Saturday 1st July 2017