Australian comedian Barry Humphries said Sunday he would retire iconic character Dame Edna Everage, a gaudy lilac-haired parody of suburbia, because he felt a "bit senior" and was ready to move on.

Dame Edna Everage is the most notorious drag queen in the Anglo-Saxon world. She’s a hybrid of Lou Dobbs and Ursula (the octopus queen in the Little Mermaid). There are more fake jewels on her dresses ...

Wasn’t it Frank Sinatra who once said, “A dame’s work is never done?” The perennially politically incorrect crooner most likely was referring to dames the same way he would talk about other women he ...