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Barry Humphries has paid tribute to Emily Perry, the elderly English actor who played Dame Edna Everage's sidekick Madge Allsop, and who died last week aged 101.
"She never even cracked so much as a smile, no matter how hard I tried to make her laugh," Humphries told the Sunday Times.
Perry was 80 when she began playing alongside Dame Edna in 1987.
