Anne Edmonds may have come to comedy late at the age of 28, but if last year is any indication, her profile has exploded since her breakout in 2009.
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Travelling the country as part of her You Know What I'm Like! tour, she won the 2015 Piece of Wood Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which acknowledges the best show as voted by a committee of comedians.
On top of that, she guested on the now-cancelled ABC show Dirty Laundry Live and appeared on Network Ten's Have You Been Paying Attention.
Not bad for someone who was, "mucking around doing characters with another girl" in Darwin, before the ABC decided to produce a sketch show of theirs.
All this success is not much of a surprise when looking at what propelled her into the spotlight though: a short yet brilliant video titled Raylene the Racist, which has more than 68,000 views on YouTube.
The video, which was produced by the ABC, takes a satirical dig at racism as it follows a woman who has been "forced to flee Melbourne" because of her racist beliefs, and finds that her ideal "like-minded town" of Darwin is no better at tolerating it.
Addressing these cultural attitudes in a deeply satirical way informs a lot of Edmonds' comedic routine.
"I'm really interested in the attitudes of Middle Australia, which is where I grew up…and as part of that their particular views or prejudices, I'm always interested in exploiting that," she says.
True Australian Patriots, a Facebook group that she helped create with comedians Damien Power and Greg Larson continues this theme well, mocking several ultra-patriotic Australian Facebook groups.
"There's a lot of comedy now among those groups, you only have to look at their serious pages to see that it's ripe for satire," she says.
"They almost satirise themselves, so in that way we were quickly inspired and found no shortage of integration for ideas with stuff that they do themselves."
Edmonds, who performed earlier this year at the Canberra Comedy Festival, will be showing off her biting satire to a smaller, more intimate crowd at Uni Pub on July 15.
It's her first time at the smaller venue and she sees great value in that.
"It's good to get out to a different audience you wouldn't normally meet at a festival environment," she says.
"Doing a headline spot and being on stage for that 40 minutes, or half an hour or whatever it is, [the audience] can get to know you better, and you might have a bit of a chat with [them]."
Anne Edmonds
When: Friday, July 15, 8pm
Where: Uni Pub, Civic
Tickets: $22 from trybooking.com. 18+.
