DAME Edna Everage comic Barry Humphries bowed out of life with a gag - joking that hip surgery had turned him into a bionic man.
The Australian entertainer's loved ones said he was funny until his final breath as they surrounded his deathbed yesterday.
The 89-year-old was released from hospital in Sydney days earlier but readmitted after a setback.
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