There's a story in that: Brisbane Comedy Festival puts life at the centre of laughs
Blair, a proud Butchulla, Mununjali and Woppaburra woman, spent more than three decades working as a nurse and midwife. Supporting birthing mothers was her area of expertise.
But a series of events in her mid-50s changed her course towards comedy. Or as she puts it: 'comedy found me'.
'I had just gotten back into [nursing and midwifery] and I had moved up to Hervey Bay,' she explains. 'Then my sister cousin who I was very close to passed away.
'And I said to myself, 'what would I do if I couldn't fail?''
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A few months after COVID ended, Blair helped her sister produce a comedy show in Townsville. It was a huge success.
By the time she found herself on a Bumble date in Byron Bay at a comedy afternoon, her destiny was all but writing itself.
'There were all these non-Indigenous women performing, and I thought, no one looks like me,' Blair says.
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