Barry Humphries was a master of provocation and glorious grotesquerie
Despite a legacy tainted by PC-baiting provocation, many will remember Humphries with affection as the carnivalesque Dame Edna and foul-mouthed Sir Les Patterson Barry Humphries, Australian comedian and creator of Dame Edna Everage, dies aged 89 When any well-loved entertainer dies, it's sad. Now Barry Humphries has died, and maybe it's more so " because we're losing not only Humphries, but his alter egos too, charac…