Fasten your safety belts, Pam Ann is ready to land. James Rampton talks to creator Caroline Reid about her infamous show.

You are in for a rib-tickling ride. Pam Ann's one-woman show One World Alliance featuring air hostesses from every corner of the industry, is touching down in Croydon and Dartford this spring.

All played by Caroline Reid, the show features Mona the BA bitch, Sarah the Virgin slut and Donna from easyJet, who does Luton to Leeds eight times a day and dreams of flying over water.

Pam Ann, the trolly dolly with verbal venom, is the creation of Australian comic Caroline Reid, who has been touring the act since she first performed the character in the alternative clubs of Sydney during the mid-1990s.

Cabin crews flock to her shows and both BA and Virgin have booked her for conferences to demonstrate to how not to handle passengers. And to show how much they love her act, real-life cabin crew hand over new material.

As a result, whenever she flies, Caroline is recognised and instantly upgraded by grateful cabin crew.

Caroline feels in these deeply politically correct times, audiences relish the fact the character mercilessly abuses them. Pam wouldn't recognise political correctness if it boarded her plane and ordered a glass of champagne.

She said: "There is something gloriously un-PC about Pam. The climate of political correctness has gone over the top and audiences have been deprived of performers who will tell it like it is. Viewers are sick of hearing everyone's wonderful.

Caroline adores the freedom donning Pam's circa 1968 air hostess uniform gives her.

She said: "My parents are very polite - they sent me to speech school as child - and I'm quite well-mannered.

"But as Pam, I've got the filthiest mouth. She can be far ruder to people than I would ever be.

"One time, a guy in a wheelchair would come to the show every week. I said to him, you can really walk, - you're only coming in a wheelchair so you can board first, aren't you?'. We became friends and I went dancing with him in his wheelchair.

"He liked the fact I wasn't treating him differently from anyone else.

"I never go out of my way to be offensive and I think in this guise it's not offensive. Audiences are not laughing at people's disabilities but at Pam and her ludicrous opinions."

Pam can also count first-class stars among her fans. Madonna is just one in a long A-list of supporters.

She said: "When I got an email asking me, would you be interested in performing on Sir Elton's private jet?', at first I thought it was a wind-up."

"But it was a dream job. The plane was full of celebs like David Beckham, Lulu and Damian Hirst.

"I crewed it like I was a real flight attendant and I was evil to all of them. When one of them asked me for a glass of champagne, I snapped, get it yourself. Who do you think you are?' But they loved it. Everyone licks their arses all the time, so being spoken to like that was a buzz for them."

  • Pam Ann, Fairfield Halls, Croydon April 17. 020 8688 9291.

The Orchard, Dartford, May 4. Call 01322 220000 for details.