September 14, 2017
Pam Ann's Creator Bares Her Dating Calamities in New Stand-Up Show
READ TIME: 3 MIN.
Caroline Reid, the comedian behind the beloved, brash flight attendant, Pam Ann, is stripping off her stewardess uniform this fall and performing in her brand new, bare-all, stand up comedy show, "TINDER, COKE, F#CK...REPEAT!"
The show is more than hysterical: it is an open mouth gasp, laugh-so-hard-you-spit-your-drink-out look into the fast paced and drug-fueled life Reid has enjoyed - and not enjoyed - since relocating from London to NYC five years ago. In "TINDER, COKE, F#CK...REPEAT!," Reid invites audiences into her Manhattan apartment when she was a new-to-town, single gal, looking to mix and mingle with the city's eligible bachelors. She was expecting to live the "Sex and the City" life she had seen on TV, however, the NYC she encountered was not made up of the high-scale restaurants, glamorous martini lounges and fashionable downtown art shows frequented by Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. Hers was a different city with a new set of dating rules, where digital apps like Tinder ruled the singles scene. Reid finds love on her phone - multiple times - and it leads her into some dark, messy, and outrageously side-splitting sexual encounters that might have been hair-raising if she hadn't have been so high at the time.
Caroline Reid shares all her dating disasters in "TINDER, COKE, F#CK...REPEAT!," taking place Thursday, September 28 and Friday, September 29 at New York City's Triad Theatre. Tickets are available now at 212-279-4200 or www.TriadNYC.com.
Caroline Reid should not be alive today. Statistically, she should be lying handcuffed under a Motel 6 bed, floating in the Hudson River, or detoxing in the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, but somehow she's alive and well and ready to divulge all her harrowing and ridiculous adventures. "Old Blue Eyes wasn't kidding when he said New York was a tough town," she reflects. "This city's a bitch and filled with psychos and I'm one of them."
"People with ambition and drive are drawn to New York to find out how far they can go in life, work, and love," Reid continues. "This city encourages us to push the limits and that's dangerous for someone like me who has always lived my life in extremes. It can get a sweet, naive, daddy's girl from Melbourne into a heap of trouble. It certainly did for me and continues to do so even today."
Caroline Reid is an Australian comedian-writer-producer. A born entertainer, Reid's knack for selling out shows includes New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, San Francisco's Castro Theatre, Sydney's State Theatre, Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre, and extends to Poland, Germany, UK, Norway, Scandinavia, France, Ireland, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Finland and Dubai. Career highlights include headlining New York's legendary Carolines on Broadway, selling out three shows at the 3600 seat Hammersmith Apollo, and performing shows at the prestigious London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall.
In her 20 years since creating the beloved character of Pam Ann, Caroline Reid has racked up more flight miles than Trump staffers jetting to secret money laundering meetings in the Seychelles. Fans love Pam's barbed wit and her blisteringly politically incorrect funny take on the world of airlines and air crew. Even celebrities can't resist Pam with her pristine white gloves as she struts up and down the aisle with her trolley full of beautifully unpredictable, acerbic airline satire. Pam Ann crewed Elton John's private jet at his express request. She opened for Cher's UK tour. Madonna called Pam Ann "cruelly funny."
In Australia, Pam Ann starred on her own television talk show, "The Pam Ann Show" on FOXTEL. She also hosted the National Live broadcast of Mardi Gras to an audience of 2 million. She appeared in an advertising campaign for British Airways and was the face of Skyteam Sky Tips for London Heathrow Terminal 4. Pam Ann also performed on their first ever JetBlue - JetPride flight, a first on a US carrier.
"As the airports got bigger, so has Pam's ego," Reid proudly confirms. "And as they got filthier, so has her mouth!"
Reid will portray Pam Ann at three shows at Joe's Pub later this holiday season, but for now, she is thrilled to take the stage as herself. "I am so excited to just be me," she proclaims. "It's going to be raw and it's going to be real." Her new show, MISS WORLDWIDE, Saturday Nov 11, with additional shows on Friday Dec 1 and Saturday Dec 2. $30 tickets available now at 212-967-7555 or www.JoesPub.com.