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Katherine Ryan, a Canadian native who made her name in Britain on the telly before coming back to North America, has her second stand-up comedy special out on Netflix. Although Ryan will joke at length about the lengths to which societal customs, including fashion, pressure women back toward longstanding norms, …
Katherine Ryan is Canadian, so of course she knows how great Celine Dion is, and in this performance on Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden, she explains what Dion does right, what Melania Trump did wrong, and how British television offers a brutally naked alternative to dating. Roll the …
Hot off the heels of launching a successful comedy and music festival in San Francisco with the second annual Clusterfest, Comedy Central is ready to do it up across the pond with a three-day stand-up fest in the UK. Jimmy Carr, Russell Howard and Katherine Ryan will headline Comedy Central …
The Fix is in at Netflix. Yes, groan all you want. Then ask comedians Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan and D.L. Hughley to fix that, too. The streaming platform has announced it has ordered up 10 episodes of a topical panel show starring the three comedians — Carr will host, while …
Jimmy Carr won the inaugural “Roast Masters Invitational” tournament at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival in 2015 that helped Jeff Ross land a Comedy Central series deal for Roast Battle. So it’s fitting that Carr will host the UK adaptation of Roast Battle UK for Comedy Central UK. They’ve also …
“Have you ever seen a saxophone opening a stand up comedy set? I don’t think so. Anything can happen on Stand Up on the Spot!” Jeremiah Watkins, the host of Jeff Ross Presents Stand-Up On the Spot, made his entrance Tuesday night playing the sax while his sidekick, Avery Pearson, …
Katherine Ryan is only the second stand-up comedian from the United Kingdom granted an official Netflix comedy special, and she’s actually Canadian. So winner winner, cheeky sinner! I wrote about Katherine Ryan: In Trouble for my friends at Decider, and here’s the topical lede… Twenty minutes into her first stand-up …
Katherine Ryan is a Canadian comedian living in Great Britain, but for her debut late-night TV performance in America on Conan, she’d rather fill us in first on her life as a single mother. Which includes learning Hebrew. Just in case. Ryan’s first Netflix special, In Trouble, premiered on Tuesday. …
We may be a month into summer (and two months from Memorial Day already), but it’s never too late for news of a fourth consecutive Oddball Fest by Funny or Die. Especially when they announced today that this late summer’s tour of North American amphitheaters will include headliners Brian Regan, …
