The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has stripped Barry Humphries's name from the festival's biggest award, following furore over the performer's comments about transgender people last year.
Humphries is a household name for his iconic characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, but last year came under fire for saying that being transgender is "a fashion".
"How many different kinds of lavatory can you have? And it's pretty evil when it's preached to children by crazy teachers," Humphries said in an interview with The Spectator magazine.
Humphries is a founding patron of MICF and has been recognised as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and Commander of the British Empire (CBE).
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Dame Edna will just shake her elegant head about that and say, 'what a bunch of precious possums"
lol
