Kitty Flanagan Biography
Kitty Flanagan is a comedian, writer, and actor from Australia who works in both Australia and the United Kingdom. She has also performed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Japan, as well as at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal.
How old is Kitty Flanagan? – Age
She is 55 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1968 in 1968 in Manly, Australia.
Kitty Flanagan Family – Education
Her father, John Flanagan, is an Australian author best known for his novel series The Ranger’s Apprentice and Brotherband. Penny Flanagan, her sister, is a musician and one-half of the 1990s indie band Club Hoy; she frequently appears in Kitty’s gigs. Michael, her brother, is a chef who owns a coffee shop in Japan’s snowfields. Flanagan went to Monte Sant’Angelo Mercy College in North Sydney for high school. She recalls putting on avant-garde performance acts with her younger sister Penny as a teenager, and they would incorporate their younger brother Michael by dressing him in tutus and teaching him dancing routines.
Kitty Flanagan Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Kitty Flanagan Books
Flanagan published Bridge Burning and Other Hobbies, a collection of personal and professional autobiographical stories, in March 2018. On The Weekly with Charlie Pickering in August 2018, Flanagan performed a sketch based on her “pretend” book 488 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Idiots, which was inspired by Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life. This concept sparked the publication of 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct in 2019.
Kitty Flanagan Netflix – Kitty Flanagan
Flanagan returned to Australia in 2013 with his stand-up show Hello Kitty Flanagan. Hello Kitty Flanagan is available for online viewing on Netflix in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
Kitty Flanagan Rules for Life
On The Weekly with Charlie Pickering in August 2018, Flanagan performed a sketch based on her “pretend” book 488 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Idiots, which was inspired by Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules for Life. This concept sparked the publication of 488 Rules for Life: The Thankless Art of Being Correct in 2019.
Kitty Flanagan Stand Up
Flanagan filled in for Annabel Crabb’s weekly newspaper column for Fairfax Media for two weeks at the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Flanagan became the Adelaide Fringe’s third ambassador in February 2015, replacing singer Katie Noonan and initial Adelaide Fringe ambassador and fellow comedian Paul McDermott. In 2015, she toured Australia with her third stand-up comedy act, Seriously?, accompanied by a two-person entourage. In the same year, Flanagan launched her fourth standup show, Smashing, on an Australian national tour.
Kitty Flanagan Melbourne
In 2010, Flanagan hosted and performed stand-up comedy at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala. Flanagan hosted and performed stand-up comedy at the ‘Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow’ in March 2017 to kick off the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which aired on the ABC and ABC iview in April 2017. Flanagan and Hoot the Owl co-hosted New Year’s Eve: The Early Night Show in 2017, which aired on ABC and ABC iview in December as part of the public broadcaster’s New Year’s Eve programming.
Kitty Flanagan Dogs
Flanagan and her dog Henry became Delta Society ambassadors in 2013, which involves delivering trained therapy dogs to hospitals, care institutions, and schools across Australia. Flanagan, as an ambassador, assisted the Delta Society in spreading the word and promoting Delta Society’s philanthropic programs such as Delta Therapy Dogs, Classroom Canines, and Delta Dog Safe. Flanagan is especially fond of Delta’s Classroom Canines program, which employs dog therapy concepts to aid children with reading issues and to get them enthused about reading and writing.
Kitty Flanagan Career
Flanagan went on a road trip across Australia when she was 21 years old. She liked Western Australia so much that she moved there and lived in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe for a few years before moving on to Bunbury and Geraldton. She worked as a waitress, read news and weather at a country radio station, and cleaned and packed crayfish for three weeks at a crayfish factory in Geraldton before resigning. Before starting a job in advertising, she completed her training and worked for a short time as a physical education teacher.
Flanagan began her five-year career as a copywriter for an advertising agency in 1989, working on campaigns for products like Quik chocolate drinking powder. Following five years as a publicist, she was terminated in June 1993. She decided to try stand-up after leaving advertising and working as a bartender at a hotel with an open mic night. After her first attempt was successful, she began her career in stand-up comedy in 1994 at an open mic night held at the Harold Park Hotel in Sydney. Her first performance at the Harold Park Hotel earned her a spot in the final of the hotel’s competition for Comic of the Year, where she finished third and won a bottle of red wine.
Flanagan had been performing stand-up comedy for six months when the producer of Full Frontal first noticed her in December 1994. In 1995, Flanagan joined the cast as a writer and a performer. Flanagan quit Full Frontal at the end of 1996 to focus on stand-up comedy, while also writing and starring in Shaun Micallef’s World Around Him, The Micallef Program, The 50 Foot Show, and The Fat for television.