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Kitty Flanagan owes it all to the ‘Whip-Around.’
Being invited to summarise Sydney events in a weekly segment on
The Project reignited her popularity in Australia and led to new work opportunities.
“
The Project put me on the map,” she tells
TV Tonight. “I left Australia for 8 years because I wanted to be a stand-up. So I had to go to the UK just because there were more gigs, because I needed to work every night to get good.
“I’d done
Full Frontal but no-one really knew me from that. When I came back
The Project gave me a TV profile. Suddenly it meant I could go on tour and do an hour show. You can’t tour without that kind of recognisability, I don’t think. It’s very rare.”
Kitty Flanagan and Julia Zemiro team up for dry legal comedy
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Kitty Flanagan is spot-on when she says her debut ABC sitcom,
Fisk â which she co-wrote with her sister, musician and author Penny Flanagan â is ânot another glamorous legal showâ. Both the location (a dusty probate practice next to a busy Melbourne tram route) and Flanaganâs eponymous protagonist, Helen Tudor-Fisk (a recently divorced, unemployed lawyer who prefers to wear only brown chain-store pantsuits and whose outlook is one of meekly cynical irritation), are the epitome of drab. Indeed, the dictionary definition of âfiskâ â âto make an argument seem wrong or stupid by showing the mistakes in each of its pointsâ â is an apt description for Helenâs new job at Gruber & Gruber. Instead of courtroom theatrics, there is bickering over inheritances
Ten tradesmen were inside the building on Alexander St in Crows Nest, on Sydney s lower north shore, working on an expansion when it dramatically collapsed.
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