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PAM ANN Withering wit from the world’s most sarcastic air hostess
S avage satirist that she is, how tempting will it be for Pam Ann to take on the most bizarrely fascinating air travel story of the day? Or will good taste prevail and the words ‘Flight MH370’ remain unmentioned throughout Fly? This phrase in her blurb perhaps gives you an indication of what to expect: ‘No news story is safe from this comedian.’ Gird your loins, people.
The cultish creation of Aussie Caroline Reid set off on this particular path to showbusiness success at the age of eight when her mother stuck her on a plane from Melbourne to Sydney in order to get some peace and quiet. You’d think that the last thing Reid would want to be involved with during her career would be aircraft after such a potentially
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traumatic start to her life, but not one bit: she dreamed up Pam in the mid-90s and has been entertaining and offending audiences ever since.
Reid’s motto is ‘passion plus talent plus perseverance equals success’, while Pam is something of an air travel snob. Her disdain for budget airlines is famously withering but she does have friends in rather high places: she went on tour with Cher a decade ago and Elton John has hired her comedic services on his private jet. And if anyone can make lots of comedy hay with the idea of a cockpit, Pam Ann can. (Brian Donaldson)
King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 25 Mar.
HITLIST THE BEST COMEDY EVENTS
✽ Simon Munnery There are very few people quite like the former head of the
League Against Tedium. His Fylm is full of animation, crazy non-sequiturs and visual one- liners. The Stand, Edinburgh, Sun 23 Mar; The Stand, Glasgow, Mon 24 Mar.
✽ Bridget Christie Last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winner shows the good people of Glasgow exactly why we were all raving about her. The Stand, Glasgow, Mon 24 Mar.
✽ Mike Wozniak In Take the Hit, the moustachioed one wonders why he has to share a small homestead with the in-laws. Not that he wishes to waste time banging on about it . . . See preview, page 56. The Stand, Glasgow, Tue 25 Mar.
✽ Jerry Sadowitz The master of all things downright crude, rude and scintillatingly
caustic rolls up for more gags and observations that will come close to most people’s bones. King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 29 Mar.
✽ Richard Herring Wonder if a slight
rewrite has been required with his show about death given that it partly speculated on Nelson Mandela’s potential demise? It’ll still be brilliant, though. Òran Mór, Glasgow, Sun 30 Mar.
✽ Fife Comedy Festival Starting on that most comedic of days, this debut festival
features the likes of Omid Djalili, Rich Hall, Tiffany Stevenson and Hardeep Singh Kohli. Various venues, Central Fife, Tue 1–Sun 13 Apr.
✽ Josh Widdicombe It’s been a relatively swift rise to fame for the Devon lad who does a pretty good ‘new Rigsby’ grumpy young man thing. The Garage, Glasgow, Thu 3 Apr.