What I Would Do If I Were You

What I Would Do If I Were You

What I Would Do If I Were You - create a career as a comedian, branch out as an artist, and then write a book …

Renowned stand-up comedian Mandy Nolan has become a legend in her own lifetime in northern NSW. She has created a following for her own brand of unconventional, politically incorrect and slightly naughty views on life and family relationships. The inspiration for this is her own unconventional family. Now Mandy is making the leap - she has adapted her humour to another medium and moved from stand-up to write-up.

Her book, What I Would Do If I Were You: Dispatches from the front line of family life, highlights the humour in everyday events from baby stage to teenage - from getting the kids out of bed and off to school to the awkwardness of those first sex talks.

Nolan laughs, 'I find satirical sanctuary in the ordinary... like the parental disappointment when one of your teenagers gets picked up for shoplifting... the shame, the public embarrassment. She went to Supre, she could have at least had a shot at Country Road!'

In celebration of the dual nature of her creativity, Mandy will be off on a comedy tour around the Eastern states to support the launch of her book in October. Join her for breakfast and work around your children's schedule or get dad to babysit for the night and take your girlfriends out for a belly laugh.Apart from her performance fame, Mandy is also a celebrated artist and created the 44 illustrations for the book herself.

Mandy Nolan is a stand-up comedian, journalist, scriptwriter and respected artist. In her early stand-up career she worked alongside internationally acclaimed celebrities such as Whoopi Goldberg and Eartha Kit. Since then she has supported Wil Anderson, Dave Hughes, Fiona O'Loughlin, Tom Gleeson, Akmal, Charlie Pickering, Arj Barker and almost every high-profile comedian in the country. Mandy currently writes for Prevention magazine and The Byron Shire Echo and performs stand-up regularly around Australia. She has five children aged two to 15 and lives in Byron Bay.

What I Would Do If I Were You
Finch Publishing
Author: Mandy Nolan
ISBN: 978 1921 462 337
Price: $29.99