Dame Edna Offended Everyone On ‘The Project’ Last Night (Not Really, Maybe A Little)

National treasure Dame Edna Everage was on The Project last night, where she promoted some pyjamas and lightly made fun of fellow national treasure, Waleed Aly.

Dame Edna’s (or Barry Humphries) schtick has always been playing the elderly passive aggressive aunt, who knows the impact of her words but has aged out of giving a fuck. But sometimes seeing flustered TV anchors trying to join in on the act and navigate her jokes, is just as entertaining as the one-liners she throws at them.

For one, she referred to Waleed as “Little Waly”.

Dame Edna looked at Waleed and declared to the audience, “I have to tell the viewers, that he really does look like this.” For one second everyone held their breath — this is Australian TV after all, anything could happen — but then she made some joke about “the light” making him seem handsome and phew, everything was okay.

Dame Edna went on to ask about Carrie’s stretch marks, which she was fairly chill about, before turning her attention to footy/Big Brother star, Fitzy. “It must have been horrible for you,” Dame Edna said of his tenure in the Big Brother house. “But where would you be without that show?” Fitzy then pretended to laugh, but it was that too-high, too-slow laugh that you do when your feelings are really hurt but you’re pretending to be fine.

Eventually everyone starting being a bit passive aggressive (“Why did we even write questions!” Carrie said, praying for an ad break) and by the end of the segment, Dame Edna had implied that Waleed can’t get anyone to have sex with him, and he alluded to the fact that he has HEAPS of weird sex, “fun you would not even believe!” Gross.

With a parting scathing comment: “You know what I love about this show? It really is a long commercial” Dame Edna was gone. Never change, legend.