The shrieks of delight that the devilishly dirty Pam Ann is finally coming to New Zealand are just starting to abate, so just to keep you sated until February we had a chat with the smutty sensation of the skies, covering everything from Hobbits, to marriage equality, horny gay fans, shows at sex clubs and her filthy mouth. If you haven't seen any of Pam Ann's work before you should really slap yourself, twice, get on YouTube and get ready to fall to pieces laughing. The character created so brilliantly by Aussie Caroline Reid is as sharp as a tack and dirtier than the back streets of K' Rd. She takes audiences on flights of hilarity, mocking attendants from airlines all over the world, and has garnered a cult-like following of fans, many of them gay. The show she is bringing to Auckland for a massive Auckland Pride weekend will be the premiere of new work Plane Filthy. And she tells GayNZ.com she is excited to be coming to New Zealand for the very first time. "I've never, ever been," she exclaims on the phone from New York. "I used to live in Australia, but I live in New York now. So it's quite far now!" As for Auckland Pride itself, she was delighted to hear about it, and could well be getting in amongst it. "I'll be there! I'll be there with bells on and rainbow flags and with all the gays!" she exclaims. Reid is expecting us to be "quite bonkers" based on the sense of humour of Air New Zealand, with its Richard Simmons and Betty White safety demonstration videos. She envisions down to earth people, and a lot of white water rafting and bungy jumping. As for the latter, she says she'll leave it to Beyonce. "She can do that. I'm happy in a bar with a cocktail." When told she has a legion of gay fans in New Zealand, she delightedly says the feedback is that ticket sales have been good for the Auckland show. "That's so nice. You never know really. It's just a nice feeling that there's people out there who want to see me!" The gay following probably comes because she is like part of the fabric of the gay community. She grew up in it in Melbourne, and says it's where she learned life lessons and got her "fucking filthy mouth" "I don't really have any straight friends. My mum and dad are straight. My brother's straight but he should be gay. We only ever go to gay venues, so we never really grew up in a straight world. I guess it's just the audience that I grew up with. I always did the drag venues. I always like to say I didn't go to acting school, I went to 'the school of drag-atic arts'." She adds: "I never intended to go out and target anyone in particular, it was all very organic." Plane Filthy, as the name suggests, will be incredibly dirty. The title is designed to act as a warning, as Pam Ann offends so many. In Darwin last year about twenty people walked out of a performance. "I think some people thought it was some sort of air hostess musical review," she says, losing her crap laughing. "And I come out and start swearing like a trooper and talking about being fucked anally. I know it's about airlines, the majority is, but it does get filthy, and they just can't cope. It's very crass, it's a very blue show. There is a lot of stuff in there about airlines but I'm very ferocious I guess on stage." It will also be topical, pushing the envelope, which is something she enjoys. "These days I find people are so easily offended, so it just makes me happy. What makes me laugh is offending people over something so trivial." Something which currently has her hot under her perfectly-ironed collar is Australia's lack of marriage equality, which says is embarrassing. "Australia has the emu and the kangaroo, animals that can't go backwards, on the flag. And it's such bullshit that you've got these backwards people. I just don't get it. I just can't wrap my head around how someone can stop two people getting married. I just don't understand that logic. It doesn't register with me. "It's just ridiculous. The whole thing. Like, just fuck off. They're such dick heads. It's kind of embarrassing for Australia not to be forward-thinking because it's such a young country." Plane Filthy's Auckland stopover will be tailored to her Auckland audience, with titbits and impressions thrown in from her experiences here - and of course some Air New Zealand bits. She is always excited about performing somewhere new, “because it just gives me a whole new batch of shit to talk about”. She's mentioned in the past that due to her huge gay following, getting so many gay men in a room means her shows are like a gay hook-up joint, or a real-life Grindr. "Those gays, I swear!" she laughs saying she added an interval to give the boys a chance to cruise and have a cocktail. "I swear the show is only an hour queens, and then you can carry on!" That kind of atmosphere is nothing new for Reid though, she's taken Pan Am to dark and dirty places all around the world, including unwittingly doing a show at a London sex club. The venue, Central Station in Kings Cross, had a cabaret license which meant it had to have a show before the shagging could proceed. "I didn't know it was a sex club, no one told me that. That's why I was thinking 'why are they really anxious for me to finish?'.” The venue was a black box with a microphone held up with sticky tape, she says, and she could hardly be heard. "After I'd finished the show they all disappeared and I was like 'where did they go' and they said 'there's a fuck club downstairs, they weren't here for you!'" Pam Ann has been to plenty of seedy gay clubs, especially her first seven years living in London. "It was fuck clubs, gay clubs, chunky men, only men only, in the East End of London at two in the morning on a Tuesday night in winter with three people in the audience all shitfaced with their faces on the table." These days of course the venues are first-class, but she says those times make her appreciate what she has now. We promise she will have a nice venue in Auckland. "I can't wait to get out there and see everyone,” she gushes. “To see what you look like, if you all look like Hobbits, and have got rings and things and stuff. You kind of live in a fairy tale by the sounds of things. I am really excited about coming into that fairy tale." As for how much fun Pam Ann still is, "I'm exhausted from the bitch," she jokes. But in reality she loves seeing the world, making friends across the globe, and making a living doing what she adores. There is the worry that one day people won't want to see her perform any more though. "What will I do? I'll have to become a real flight attendant! How long can this go on for? You know what I mean!?" You can get tickets to Pam Ann’s Plan Filthy show at the ASB Theatre on 21 February here Jacqui Stanford - 2nd November 2013