Comic author to hit the road

Comic author Kathy Lette is to embark on her first live comedy tour.

The Australian-born writer has announced 13 dates for the autumn, following four warm-up dates next month.

She has written 12 bestsellers, starting with the novel Puberty Blues in 1979, when she was still a teenager. Her latest, Best Laid Plans, is to be released in the UK on July 13 and will be made into an eight-hour TV series by production company Fremantle Media.

Her earlier book, Mad Cows, was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel.

Lette’s new tour, Girl’s Night Out, is billed as ‘a psychological striptease taking us from Puberty Blues to menopause blues, with tales of love, lust, men, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, mastitis, sexist bosses, teenage-daughter-wrangling, ageing, toy boys, making the Queen laugh, hiding Julian Assange in her attic, tongue kissing Prince William and Close Encounters of the George Clooney Kind, en route.’

Lette’s husband is the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, and Assange used their London house following WikiLeaks' publication of US diplomatic cables in 2010 – and she scripted his cameo in the Simpsons 500^th episode.

Her stage show will also cover the  ‘trials, tribulations and hilarity’ of raising a child on the autistic spectrum, from the times Jules came home from school with a sign sticky-taped to his back saying ‘Kick me I’m a retard’ to his success playing Jason on Holby City.

Bon viveur Lette is also a newspaper columnist and appears regularly as a commentator on the BBC and Sky News. She was also writer in residence at The Savoy, where a cocktail named after her. 

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Published: 12 Jun 2017