Kitty Flanagan owes it all to the ‘Whip-Around.’ Being invited to summarise Sydney events in a weekly segment on The Project reignited her popularity in Australia and led to new work opportunities. “ The Project put me on the map,” she tells TV Tonight. “I left Australia for 8 years because I wanted to be a stand-up. So I had to go to the UK just because there were more gigs, because I needed to work every night to get good. “I’d done Full Frontal but no-one really knew me from that. When I came back The Project gave me a TV profile. Suddenly it meant I could go on tour and do an hour show. You can’t tour without that kind of recognisability, I don’t think. It’s very rare.”