Katherine Ryan
- 41 years old
- Canadian
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
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Katherine Ryan goes Backstage with Amazon for Q&A show
Katherine Ryan is making an audience-led comedy show for Amazon Prime. In Backstage With Katherine Ryan, the Canadian comic is asking a studio audience of fans to submit their "burning questions" to her.
British Comedy Guide, 29th March 2021Katherine Ryan on marrying her teenage crush
She's TV's new comedy queen and is set for Celebrity Bake Off. Now, Katherine Ryan tells the impossibly romantic story of how she married her teen crush . . . 20 years on.
Julia Llewellyn-Smith, Daily Mail, 3rd February 2021Katherine Ryan offers typically blunt retort to trolls
Katherine Ryan has shut down Instagram users who criticised her for "going too far with plastic surgery".
Ellie Harrison, The Independent, 1st February 2021Katherine Ryan demands 'perks' after winning poll
The Canadian comedian was named Hertfordshire's sexiest woman at the turn of the year. In an exclusive chat, Kath said of the accolade: "It was my least sexy year as well - so it's a huge achievement. I am expecting a special parking pass and I am expecting a reduction on my council tax. I want a lot of privileges. I am going to be milking it until next year."
Ellie Henman, The Sun, 1st February 2021Katherine Ryan to publish autobiography
Katherine Ryan is to publish her autobiography. The Audacity will be available from September.
British Comedy Guide, 26th January 2021Opinion: the comedy week I will never forget
2020 might be a year we want to forget, but there is one week that I will never forget. Maybe it was a premonition and like a squirrel storing up nuts I wanted to get some comedy in the bank, but the week before Covid-19 really hit the UK I saw many more live shows than I usually see in a week in London.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st January 2021Comedians accuse Big Fat Quiz Of The Year of sexism
Comedians have denounced Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz Of The Year as sexist. Acts have taken to social media to point out that the Boxing Day episode of the panel show features no female comedians.
British Comedy Guide, 18th December 2020Comedy podcasts round-up 1: from home and abroad
Podcasts have got many of us through 2020, starved as we have been for most of it of live comedy to leave the house to see. Here's a selection of some of the best; they are available on all podcast platforms unless stated.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 7th December 2020Female comedians' best gags
Have you heard the one about the "sexist old fart" who says women are not very funny?
That would be veteran broadcaster Michael Parkinson, 85.
Dulcie Pearce, The Sun, 10th November 2020Katherine Ryan: we need more women behaving badly on TV
Katherine Ryan has said she wants "more women behaving badly" on TV as she welcomed greater diversity in programming.
Evening Standard, 8th November 2020