Great news - Kitty Flanagan is back home for good!

Years ago, when Kitty left Australia, she was probably better known for her character work on Full Frontal (a TV sketch show, not a nudie mag) and more recently on a UK sketch show, rather enigmatically titled, The Sketch Show.

Kitty was keen to pursue a career in standup as well as sketch, which is why she up and moved to London where she honed her skills working the UK circuit, the toughest and most respected standup comedy circuit in the world.

Since then, Kitty has performed at many of the well known clubs and major festivals around the world, including Edinburgh, Montreal and Aspen. Kitty, even managed to do comedy (successfully, mind you) in Japan, Holland, Germany and South Africa - quite an achievement really as those countries are well known for their excellent senses of humour.

But really you can't waft around the world forever so she came back and wafted around Australia instead, supporting visiting artists such as Wayne Brady and Jason Alexander. In recent months Kitty has been traipsing up and down the east coast as part of the sellout Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow tour. 36 gigs in 32 towns in 35 minutes...or maybe it was days, who can remember.

But the point is, now Kitty is ready to do her own thing and she's doing it in style. Kitty Flanagan is preparing to launch herself on a largely unsuspecting home town audience with the show "Charming and Alarming", the definitive collection of her best standup, performed live for two nights only, at the definitive Sydney venue, The Sydney Opera House.

Kitty likes to describe her comedy as "A little bit oowah" which is to say people often laugh then go "oowah, did she really say that?".

The Edinburgh Evening News summed it up as "Cruel, vicious, charming and innocent."

Her mother describes it as "Not really my cup of tea but all the girls at the golf club seem to really like it so what do I know?"

However you describe it, "Charming and Alarming" promises to be a fast paced evening of cracking stories, skillful characterisations and hard laughs. Throw in exciting special guests MANCHOIR (twelve men supporting one lady, that's got to be a first) plus musical sister, Penny Flanagan to noodle about occasionally on guitar and you have a great night of standup comedy "peppered" with a little bit of musical spectacle...If this was a travel show, some annoying TV Presenter would pop up right now and say "Ooh geee, it doesn't get any better than this!"