PAM FORD
Pam Ford was born in Birmingham but brought up on
the Gold Coast in Queensland, she then returned to this country in 1990.
For eight years she worked as a pub
landlady: 'That's where I learned the craft
of comedy, dealing with the male
customers.' Then in 1998 she took some
comedy workshops run by Michael
Knighton at the Studio in Beckenham.
It all started with willies. Pam Ford so loved The Full Monty - that she made the lads in her pub in Kent bare all. Soon the night expanded: YMCA acts, some drag, Ann Summers ladies, the lot.
Ford compered or ''took the mickey out of the audience whilst the acts got changed'' and her pals told her she was a natural. She did some evening workshops, worked on some material, and now the London comedy scene boasts a ''very enthusiastic, in-your-face, six-foot redhead without heels who can drink.
Ford is one of a handful of Australians and New Zealanders appearing on Friday at the Laughing Horse Too, one of the big events concluding this year's London Comedy Festival
Pam's stand-up acts relates a lot 'about having
teenage kids and trying to stay young with
it'.
'Her comic tone is best characterised'
she says, by the references to her skirt as
'a fanny pelmet'.
A good, good act. We saw her thought she was the star of the night.
John, December 2007
Loved her act. She carries it off with aplomb
Sarah, December 2005
One of the Best female comedians to have come on to the comedy circuit.