‘Has a Canadian ever made you laugh?’ Barry Humphries once quipped.
There is an uproarious story in Pender’s biography about a television interview
of Dame Edna’s with one of that country’s international stars, the assertively
gay pop chanteuse k.d. lang: ‘I make no apologies,’ Edna begins the exchange,
‘for the ... coarse terminology that I’m going to use now. When (takes a deep
breath) did you first know you were ... Canadian?’
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