Kitty Flanagan is an Australian comedian, writer and actress. She is known for portraying Helen Tudor-Fisk in the television comedy program Fisk, which she also co-created, co-wrote and co-directed. She spent eight years based in the UK and performing around the world (2001–2009) and has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Just For Laughs in Montreal, Canada. Flanagan won the AACTA Award for Best Comedy Performer in 2021 and the Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Actress in 2022 for her performance in Fisk.
Early life and education
Flanagan was born in Manly, a suburb in Sydney's north, in 1970.[1] She became drawn to comedy in Year 5 when she appeared in a school musical production of Alice in Wonderland, in which she dressed as a bunny and pretended to fall asleep during the performance.[2]
She attended high school at Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney.[3] She recalls that, as a teenager, she and her younger sister Penny would put on avant-garde performance shows involving their younger brother Michael by dressing him in tutus and giving him dance moves to do.[4]
At the age of 21, Flanagan road-tripped around Australia and liked Western Australia so much that she moved there and lived in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe for a couple of years and later lived in Bunbury and Geraldton.[5] She occasionally read news and weather at a country radio station, waited tables[6] and lasted only three weeks cleaning and packing crayfish in a Geraldton crayfish factory before she resigned.[5] She trained and briefly worked as a physical education teacher before beginning a job in advertising.[5][7]
In 1989, Flanagan began her five-year stint as an advertising agency copywriter, creating campaigns for products such as Quik chocolate drinking powder.[8] After five years as a copywriter, she was fired in June 1993.[6][9][10] Following her exit from advertising, she worked as a bartender at a hotel where there was an open mic night, so she decided to try stand-up.[11] Her first attempt was a success and she then started her comedy career in 1994 doing stand-up at an open mic night at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney.[12] Her debut performance at the hotel led to a spot in the final of the hotel's Comic of the Year competition where she placed third and won a bottle of red wine.[6] Flanagan had been doing stand-up comedy for six months[13] before she was spotted in December 1994 by the producer of Full Frontal.[6] Flanagan joined the cast as both a writer and performer in 1995.[6] She left the show in late 1996 to concentrate on her stand-up while she continued writing and acting for television in Shaun Micallef's World Around Him, The Micallef Program, The 50 Foot Show and The Fat.
2001–2009: UK and the world
Flanagan moved to the UK in 2001 to further her comedy career and do more stand-up. She performed on television in The Sketch Show as well as making numerous stand-up appearances on The World Stands Up for Comedy Central. As well as performing, she produced a short film, Dating Ray Fenwick, in which she also had a small role and also wrote material for her former Sketch Show co-star Karen Taylor's sketch comedy show Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor.[14] She also wrote for various other shows on the BBC, Channel Four and Sky Television.[12] She also worked with author and screenwriter Sean Condon to develop his screwball comedy script Splitsville as a hook for a television series, which later evolved into an e-book.[15][16] During her time in the UK, she regularly returned to Australia for short visits and appearances on television shows including Rove, Good News Week, Spicks and Specks and The Sideshow.
Flanagan took her stand-up internationally and performed at many major comedy festivals, including Edinburgh, Melbourne, Montreal, Kilkenny, Cape Town and Johannesburg.[12]
2009–2021
After eight years touring internationally and performing in comedy clubs in England, she returned to live in Australia in 2009.[4] She had three months worth of work lined up in Australia and more kept coming in so she decided to stay.[10] She starred in the Comedy Channel's 2009 TV special I Can't Believe It's Not Better[17] before joining The Project for segments on trending news topics.[10]
In 2010, Flanagan toured Australia with her stand-up comedy show Charming and Alarming.[18] She toured with her sister and show co-star Penny Flanagan and tour manager and former Full Frontal co-star Glenn Butcher, the founding member of the 1980s Newcastle comedy troupe the Castanet Club.[19]
In 2013, Flanagan toured Australia in the stand-up show Hello Kitty Flanagan.[20]
In 2013, while in Montreal to perform Hello Kitty Flanagan, she appeared as a guest comedian on a television special hosted by Wil Anderson called Wil Does Montreal: Just For Laughs which explored what goes on behind the scenes of Montreal's Just for Laughs international comedy festival and featured some of the world's best-known comedians.[21]Working Dog Productions asked Flanagan to work on their TV comedy series Utopia in 2013 and cast her in the role of Rhonda the public relations manager,[10][22] which Flanagan played for three seasons.[23]
Flanagan resigned from The Project in August 2014 but stayed for four months to finish the year. Charlie Pickering approached her to join his new TV show, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, where she created the segments "Spectacular Failures of the 21st Century" and "Problem Solver".[13] As the series progressed, Flanagan created two other segments, "Bandwagon Rider" and "Human Barometer".
For two weeks during the end of 2014 and early 2015, Flanagan was a stand-in for Annabel Crabb's weekly newspaper column for Fairfax Media.[24]
In February 2015, Flanagan was the third ambassador for the Adelaide Fringe, succeeding singer Katie Noonan and inaugural Adelaide Fringe ambassador and comedian Paul McDermott.[25] She toured Australia with her third stand-up comedy show, Seriously?, in 2015, with her entourage of two.[20]
Flanagan is an advocate of writing and writers in the screen industry. She sponsored the Best Narrative Award at the 2015 Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival in Gympie and was one of the judges for the film scripts in that category.[26][27]
In 2017, Flanagan and her sister Penny contributed as writers for the TV series Drop Dead Weird.[28] Flanagan began an Australian national tour of her fourth standup show, Smashing, the same year.[29]
In March 2018, Flanagan released a book of personal and professional autobiographical stories called Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies.[30][31]
Flanagan announced her departure from The Weekly With Charlie Pickering during the final episode of season four (2018), but returned for The Yearly with Charlie Pickering special in December 2018.[32][33][34]
In August 2018, Flanagan presented a sketch on her "pretend" book called 488 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Idiots, as a joke inspired by Jordan Peterson's book 12 Rules for Life, on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.[35][36] This idea inspired a published book in 2019 called 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct.[37][38][39]
In March 2021, Flanagan's sitcom Fisk, which she co-created, co-wrote, co-directed and starred in, aired on ABC TV. Fisk was nominated for and won two 2021 AACTA Awards, including Best Narrative Comedy Series and Best Comedy Performer for Flanagan.[40]
Corporate work and literary events
Flanagan tailors her comedy material to suit corporate events, galas, award nights and launches. She has written and presented videos for clients such as Nokia and Subaru.[41] An accomplished master of ceremonies, Flanagan hosted many awards nights and provided after-dinner comedy for companies as diverse as Australia Post and the Australian Pharmaceutical Association.[41] In 2015, Flanagan was master of ceremonies at Art of Music Live, a music concert held every two years where a group of Australia's top visual artists come together to create an original exhibition and each artist chooses an iconic Australian/New Zealand song to inspire an artwork.[42] The work is then auctioned at a gala dinner in the Art Gallery of New South Wales with all proceeds from Art of Music Live going to Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, who transform lives through music.[42]
In 2012, Flanagan joined a panel of writers, musicians and artists for the literary event called Women of Letters, an interactive talk that examines the lost art of letter writing and also celebrates women in writing. Funds raised go to a Victorian not-for-profit charity animal rescue centre called Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary.[43] In 2013, Flanagan was invited to be part of Adelaide's new literary festival called Word Adelaide,[44] where she participated in two events during the four-day program. Flanagan hosted Yarn Spinning,[45] the opening event of Word Adelaide that celebrates two long-established Australian traditions: telling tall stories and going to the pub.[46] She also featured in the event In Their Own Words, sharing the stage with Matt Lucas of Little Britain fame, Roly Sussex and musician Guy Pratt who performed in the bands Pink Floyd and Icehouse, to explore how the language of comedy has changed our lives and culture.[45][46]
Hosting
Flanagan hosted and performed stand-up at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala in 2010.[47]
Flanagan hosted and performed stand-up comedy at the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow to launch the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in March 2017,[48] which then screened on the ABC and ABC iview in April 2017.[49]
In 2017, Flanagan co-hosted New Year's Eve: The Early Night Show with Hoot the Owl, which screened on the ABC and ABC iview in December as part of the public broadcaster's New Year's Eve programming.[50][51][52]
Flanagan has donated performances at charity and fundraising events such as Comedians Unite for the Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal to help victims of Queensland's 2011 floods,[55] and donated half of the profits from her 2013 Bundaberg show to the Queensland Red Cross Flood Appeal.[56]
In 2013, Flanagan and her dog Henry became ambassadors for the Delta Society, which involves taking trained therapy dogs to visit hospitals, care facilities and schools across Australia.[57][58]
As ambassador, Flanagan helped the society to spread the word and promote the society's charitable programs, including Delta Therapy Dogs, Classroom Canines and Delta Dog Safe.[57][58] She is particularly fond of Delta's Classroom Canines program, which uses the principles of dog therapy to assist children with reading difficulties and helps children to be excited about reading and writing.[58]
Personal life
Flanagan's father, John Flanagan, is an Australian author, best known for the Ranger's Apprentice[1] and Brotherband novel series.[10]
Her sister, Penny,[10] is a musician and one-half of 1990s indie band Club Hoy; she often appears in Flanagan's shows.[1]
Her brother, Michael, is a chef and "runs a little coffee hut at the snowfields in Japan".[10][1]
The Project: Kitty Flanagan's segments on 'Social Media', 'Wedding Gift Registries', 'Climbing Trees', 'Dangerous Vegetables', 'Lady Stress', 'Mothers' Questions'
The Unbelievable Truth
Kitty's Home Movie: Teach Your Dog Tricks
Hello Kitty Flanagan Promotional Video
Sandgropers' Special: Bonus for Perth people
Region 4
Language: English
Running time: 70 minutes
Hello Kitty Flanagan is available on Netflix for online streaming in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Sweden, UK, USA
2017: 'Donald Trump has taught me anyone can be a dictator' (Fairfax Media)[101]
2018: 'Avoid the lazy cliches and dig deep for conversation starters with children at Christmas' (Fairfax Media)[102]
2018: 'What's not to love about pavlova? Plenty actually' (Fairfax Media)[103]
2018: 'Let's wrap up this grabby gift registry caper' (Fairfax Media)[104]
2018: 'Kitty Flanagan: A ham-handed separation.' Extract from Kitty Flanagan's Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies, published by Allen and Unwin (Fairfax Media)[105]
^Admin, The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (8 August 2018). "Kitty Flanagan's Rules for Life". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 29 September 2019 – via YouTube.
^ abBamigboye, Baz (19 September 2003). "The Calfs ride again". Evening Standard. London. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
^ abStaff Writer, Jolly People (14 September 2009). "Laugh For Life with Jerry Lewis". Jolly People Promoting Charity Events Around The World. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
^Staff writer, News Mail (11 February 2013). "Comedian to give Bundy more than laughs". News Mail. The Bundaberg Newspaper Company Pty Ltd. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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