Kate Smurthwaite has been a professional comedian for 20 years. She has made over 2000 TV and radio appearances, including on the UK's Question Time, The Big Questions, This Morning, BBC News, ABC News, Sky News, Woman's Hour, The Today Program, The Moral Maze, Newsnight, and is a regular guest on Channel 5’s Jeremy Vine show.
Kate has written for Have I Got News For You and the BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised. She has also been published in The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Mirror, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, New Statesman and New Internationalist.
Kate has won a number of awards for her work including a Three Week's Editor's Choice Award which named her one of the ten best things about the Edinburgh Fringe.
This is Kate's sixth Australian tour.