Ep16 Kate Hanley Corley (Comedian, successful festival shows, music videos, character comedy, motherhood)

Uncomfortable Truths

Kate Hanley Corley, comedian, music video creator, writer, mother. Kate does it all!

We discuss how she came to do her first Fringe festival show in 2012, Melbourne International Comedy Festival show in 2013 and how it has all snowballed from there. She performs a lot of musical comedy in her shows, and has made numerous music video clips that have gone viral! Kate has enjoyed success from her first festival show onwards, and we get an insight into how she has made that happen. She talks about how she is starting to come out from behind the characters and music to do straight stand-up as herself. And oh yes, and Kate is a mother of three children in high school. No mean feat! How does she manage writing, producing and performing in her own shows while being a mother of three? Listen and find out! Kate knows how to promote effectively, and she’s great at gathering a supportive team around her – essential skills for any professional performer. With the upcoming Melbourne International Comedy Festival, any performer looking for ways to get themselves out there – this podcast is a must!

Kate shows us that we don’t all have to tread the same path. Kate is having both creative and financial success without performing at 4 open mic nights per week. She has used character and musical comedy to create this success – unconventional these days on the comedy scene, but she makes it work, and has a following. She’s expanding into more straight stand up now, but my point is that we don’t all have to follow the same rule book. Do it our own way. Start with what we know, or what we have just learned, and go from there. I play you out with one of her hilarious parodies from lockdown – Victoria! You can find it on YouTube. It’s hilarious – well worth checking out, as well as her show in the upcoming MICF – Bad Mother. Here is the link to her show: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/bad-mother

Also, I’ve teamed up with Aarti Vincent and Lisa Gatenby to bring you our MICF show Miss-Understanding! We’re at the Lantern Lounge from April 12 – 17 and our show is going to be all guns blazing! Music, props, laughs – you name it! Here is the link to our show: https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2022/shows/miss-understanding

And now, without any further adieu, here is Victoria!

Pradeepa Timmermans

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