Mother of all comedies

PINK hummers for day trips and make-up stations in exclusive suites. Eight-year-old birthday parties really do have it all.

The “over the top, crazy world” of affluent parenting is ripe for the picking, and mother-of-three Kate Hanley Corley is lovingly tearing it apart in a new comedy show.

A former Geelong College student and now Melbourne Grammar mother, Hanley Corley pours plenty of life experience into her character, the South Yarra snobby yummy mummy Annabel.

“People really like laughing at themselves. I am laughing at myself as much as anyone,” she said.

The former Deakin Uni Geelong student was back home this week, ahead of two performances of South Yarra Mums & Other Calamitous Tales at Beav’s Bar later this month.

The “very silly” one-woman show, which uses multimedia, had a sellout season at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this year.

Local audiences may remember her first show, Memoirs of an Aisha, which she dbuted in 2012 and performed at the Potato Shed.

At the time she was 38 years-old and searching for some identity after focusing on her children.

“I didn’t want to go back to a proper job, but I wanted to do something bold,” she said. “So I decided to tread the boards and do a fringe festival show.”

She hasn’t looked back, and the former journalist has kept the need to find a “proper” job at bay.