Laughing Matters presented two of Australia's
best comedy ambassadors and one genuine article
Adam Hills
2001 Perrier Nominee
&
Kitty Flanagan
at the Hôtel du Nord
Sunday 16, Monday 17 & Tuesday 18 September 2001
A not so close call
hi mum can you here me down there ?
australian embassy body guard
- kitty monkeys around
un singe est un singe est un singe
Karel's eye view:
Comedians past and present have been raving to me about Adam for some time as anyone who was with us over the these three nights will have borne witness to. He is tremendous. Difficult times to do a show but the audience needed to laugh and Adam and Kitty gave them good reason. For few hours we could relieve our minds of what was happening in the outside world.
Adam's reviews
Adam Hills, "transcontinental standup extraordinaire," is an Australian born, Dublin based comic.
From his beginnings in 1989 at the Sydney Comedy Store, Adam moved on to radio.
Over five years he went from writing for 2dayFM's breakfast show, to hosting his own show on Adelaide's SAFM.In 1998 Adam returned to the world of standup with his show 'Life Is Good'. It was his show 'My Own Little World' which earned him a five star review from The Scotsman, and was a sell out at that years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 2000 saw another five star review for 'Goody Two Shoes'. This year Adam takes 'Go You Big Red Fire Engine' to the world.
His TV credits include Good Morning Australia, IMT, Good News Week, Headliners, The Fat, Rove Live (Australia) and The Stand Up Show, The Bigger Breakfast (UK).
Adam has played to audiences in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Stockholm and Oslo. He has appeared on stage along side the likes of
Rich Hall, Sean Hughes and Steven Wright.His boy next door style inadvertently earning him the title: 'The Mr Nice Guy of Comedy'.
As for Kitty she is one of Sydney's busiest and best stand up comedians and has had her face on the telly enough times to turn the occasional head in a suburban Australian McDonalds outlet.
A professional standup since 1994, Kitty headlines regularly at all the major comedy clubs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. She has also performed in Edinburgh and done a comedian's tour of duty in Singapore.
In 1995, she joined the sketch comedy programme, FULL FRONTAL where, as a writer and performer, she created some of the show's most obscure and popular characters. She has appeared on the ABC's MICALLIFF programme, starred in the recent GOOD NEWS WEEK Comedy Debate Series and was a core cast member of THE FIFTY FOOT SHOW, a popular sketch comedy produced by Artist Services for the Comedy Channel.
Her one woman show "FLANOSSERUS" debuted at the 2000 Melbourne Comedy Festival to excellent reviews. "Flanagan is funny, intelligent and doesn't parade like a desperate monkey." Apparently that's a good thing, the show got Four Stars.
Kitty has just arrived in the UK, and is taking the country by storm, she is playing all the major venues. A paranoid, tall-story-telling comedian with a gift for languages, Kitty is dedicated feminist who promises to burn her wonderbra just as soon as she can afford a boob job.
