The Melbourne international comedy festival has denied “cancelling” the late Barry Humphries and says it will plan a “fitting tribute” to the internationally lauded satirist and comedian who was instrumental in setting up the festival almost four decades ago.
Humphries died in Sydney on Saturday, at the age of 89. The man behind Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson has been widely remembered as a comic genius, while some have been critical of comments he made about transgender people, including that gender-affirmation surgery was “self-mutilation” and being transgender “a fashion”.
