Currently doing the press rounds to promote a Mother’s Day campaign with Peter Alexander, the nation’s eccentric grandma Dame Edna has been wheeled out and put on display for infotainment specialists The Project. What was sure to be a light-hearted and comical sketch has come off as anything but.
Instead, what we got – or rather, the panelists got – was a hot serving of personal digs. In what some viewers have branded as potential bullying, Dame Edna goes after our Waleed Aly, who she refers to as “little Wally” as she comments confusingly: “I have to tell the viewers, that he really does look like this. He does! It’s not a trick of the lights!”
Aly like the rest of us is unsure what to make of the comment, retorting, “I’m just trying to figure out what response you are looking for here.”
Spruiking her pajamas campaign with Peter Alexander, Edna explains the garments are “making bed fun”, concluding that bed fun is something Aly probably doesn’t “believe” in.
Goddamn it, Grandma.
Dame Edna manages to sneak in a few more strangely personal jabs before being shuffled off; Asking our Carrie Bickmore if having children left her with ‘stretch marks’, and also asking our Fitzy where he would be if it wasn’t for his time in the Big Brother house.
As Australians, we have a penchant for holding onto things well past their prime (a la Home & Away, Effie, The Johns brothers), last night’s The Project made the case for adding Dame Edna to that list.
Sozz Barrie.
