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Kitty Flanagan

Kitty Flanagan

Acting

Biography

Kitty Flanagan is one of Australia’s best-known comedians. Before that, she was one of Australia’s least known waitresses at Pizza Hut. She has played all over the world and now tours Australia relentlessly, determined to bring her award-winning stand up shows to every regional arts centre and theatre around the country. Kitty is a writer and performer and can be seen regularly on the comedy/quiz show, Have You Been Paying Attention? She’s known for her segments on The Project and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering as well as for playing the role of Rhonda on the award-winning ABC show, Utopia.

Known For

Good News Week
8.8

Good News Week was an Australian satirical panel game show hosted by Paul McDermott that aired from 19 April 1996 to 27 May 2000, and 11 February 2008 to 28 April 2012. The show's initial run aired on ABC until being bought by Network Ten in 1999. The show was revived for its second run when the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused many of Network Ten's imported US programmes to cease production. Good News Week drew its comedy and satire from recent news stories, political figures, media organisations, and often, aspects of the show itself. The show opened with a monologue by McDermott relating to recent headlines, after which two teams of three panellists competed in recurring segments to gain points. The show has spawned three short-lived spin-off series, the ABC's Good News Weekend, Ten's GNW Night Lite and Ten's skit-based Good News World.

Good News Week

1996
Have You Been Paying Attention?
8.5

Topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention.

Have You Been Paying Attention?

2013
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
4.7

News comedy show, tonight show and chat show all in one, allowing Charlie to return to his comedy roots while being a general nuisance to newsmakers, politicians and other charlatans.

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

2015
Thank God You're Here
6.0

Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced.

Thank God You're Here

2006
Utopia
7.0

Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.

Utopia

2014
Fisk
7.7

When Helen Tudor-Fisk's life falls apart, she takes a job in a small suburban firm specialising in wills and probate assuming that, because the clients are dead she won't have to deal with people.

Fisk

2021
A Bite to Eat with Alice
N/A

A Bite to Eat with Alice is a cooking show dedicated to creating delicious food. No matter your skill level, host Alice and her guest - who may not be able to cook toast - will inspire you to experiment in the kitchen.

A Bite to Eat with Alice

2024
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee
8.4

Get ready to laugh-out-loud as Guy Montgomery and his loyal assistant Aaron Chen are joined by some of Australia's favourite personalities, testing their spelling prowess with wildly inventive spelling challenges designed to befuddle, bamboozle, and bedazzle them all.

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee

2024
Sam Pang Tonight
5.0

A weekly tonight show hosted by Sam Pang. Featuring a monologue roasting the news of the week, a mix of local and international guests and plenty of Sam's friends from across the comedy world.

Sam Pang Tonight

2025
Kangaroo Beach
9.0

Welcome to Kangaroo Beach, a sun-soaked seaside paradise, populated by a kooky cast of colourful animals. This seemingly idyllic haven is never far from peril, but beachgoers are safe, thanks to the courageous lifesavers on patrol.

Kangaroo Beach

2020
Bad Company
8.0

When a corporate titan becomes the newest CEO of the State Theatre Centre she faces the challenge of a lifetime: overthrowing the manipulative and egotistical Artistic Director to save the theatre from collapse.

Bad Company

2026
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N/A

Hosted by ABC3 to kick in the new year, featuring music and special guests.

The New Years Eve Early Night Show

2015
Glenn & Mick's Celebrity Intervention
N/A

Join comedy heavyweights Glenn Robbins and Mick Molloy as they put a well-known personality under the spotlight. The interventions no celebrity asked for, but everyone wants to see.

Glenn & Mick's Celebrity Intervention

2026
Kitty Flanagan: Charming & Alarming
8.0

Kitty Flanagan is Charming and Alarming in her first ever DVD release. As one of Australia’s best known female comedians, Kitty has constantly been on the box, firstly appearing in Full Frontal and now a regular on such shows as Good News Week, Spicks and Specks and a weekly spot on The 7pm Project. Charming and Alarming features her hour long stand-up routine by the same name and also bonus features including past performances on GNW, Full Frontal and Kitty interviewing Kitty!

Kitty Flanagan: Charming & Alarming

2011
Hello Kitty Flanagan
8.3

Kitty returns with her highly anticipated new show and this time she answers all the difficult questions, such as 'What's wrong with teenagers?' and 'Should cabaret be against the law?'

Hello Kitty Flanagan

2014
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8.0

Shaun Micallef's World Around Him was an Australian sketch comedy television special. Its title is a parody of the Australian documentary series The World Around Us. Airing on the Seven Network in 1996, the special provided a major stepping stone for comedian Shaun Micallef. The show helped to develop much of the style and content of Micallef's successful sketch-comedy series The Micallef Program which began airing on the ABC in 1998.

Shaun Micallef's World Around Him

1996
You Can't Stop the Murders
4.4

Australian small-town cop Gary enjoys his nearly pastoral existence, with traffic violations providing the major excitement to his normally low-key days. While away from work, Gary spends a good deal of time fantasizing about local news reporter Julia, who would just as soon relocate to the thriving metropolis of Sydney. Soon, however, a motorcyclist is found decapitated, with a construction worker, a sailor, and a cowboy and Indian also meeting the same fate. With some murderous weirdo with some sort of Village People fixation terrorizing the town, Gary -- with the help of big-wig city detective and Don Johnson-wannabe Tony Charles -- begins to realize that a cop is the last remaining victim to be murdered in order for the killings to be complete. ...

You Can't Stop the Murders

2003
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala
N/A

Hosted by Kitty Flanagan.

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala

2010
Kitty Flanagan: Seriously?
7.0

How can there be so much fun and learning in just 75 minutes? Seriously? You'll Discover everything there is to know about dating a "pleeceman". Learn how to keep a straight face when doctors use proper words like anus and areola. Find out why dog people are the new cat people, why old people love salt so much and why it's time newsreaders gave up and let Kitty Flanagan read the nightly news. Plus special guest star Penny Flanagan joins to pay musical tribute to the demographic most often overlooked by songwriters - the formidable middle age lady.

Kitty Flanagan: Seriously?

2017
Kitty Flanagan: Smashing
7.0

Kitty presents the World Premiere of her latest stand-up special 'Smashing', streamed directly to your home. Filmed live before lockdown at the Riverside Theatre, don't miss this one night only live on-line comedy event! Love songs, sex, algorithms, chimps, clowns and psychics, everything is getting "smashed". Smashing. It's fun AND learning. Maybe get the kids out of the house for this one, unless you fancy them getting a real Flanagan style education.

Kitty Flanagan: Smashing

2020