Katherine Ryan

Comedy 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.

Female 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.

Katherine 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.

Review: Urban Myths

Sue Perkins wrote and directed the short, giving us a convincing portrait of a young woman who didn't know yet how talented she was.

Urban Myths review

A funny, fizzing kiss-and-tell tale of two divas.

Urban Myths: When Joan Kissed Barbra review

Katherine Ryan's acerbic stand-up has been compared to Joan Rivers so often that it was surely a no-brainer to cast her as the younger version of her comedy hero.

Katherine Ryan gushes about husband on 1st anniversary

Katherine Ryan marked her one year wedding anniversary to her high school sweetheart Bobby Kootstra with a series of snaps on Instagram on Monday.

Katherine Ryan's Netflix show is quietly revolutionary

Katherine Ryan's series about single motherhood is flawed but unwavering in its commitment to a simple premise: a heroine who does not need a man.

Katherine Ryan: daughter is the reason for 'zero' sex

Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan, 37, plays the lead in new Netflix sitcom The Duchess.

Here, the mum of one reveals the effects lockdown had on her sex life with husband Bobby Kootstra.