Katherine Ryan: ‘My love language is intimacy. That’s what my comedy is about’
The comedian, 41, talks about parents, children, her hot blonde cheerleader days and not lying about her love of money
June 2024
Katherine Ryan criticises lack of women hosting late-night chatshows in UK
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S7, Ep 1: Katherine Ryan, comedian and writer
April 2024
TV review
Joe and Katherine’s Bargain Holidays review – comedians slum it with a ‘spa day’ in a pub car park
Joe Lycett edits Observer New Review
On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights
February 2024
TV review
Out of Order review – perfectly raucous post-pub television is back
‘It was just electric!’: Rosie Jones, Katherine Ryan and Judi Love on revolutionising TV comedy
October 2023
Katherine Ryan says she got pushback over ‘dangerous male comic’ claims
Speaking on Desert Island Discs, comedian revealed how she confronted unnamed man she believed ‘to be a perpetrator of sexual assault’
April 2023
Scrappy, surreal and sincere: how Late Night Lycett reinvigorates the British chatshow
Comedian and presenter Joe Lycett has birthed what feels like an instant classic – knowingly modern, goofy and refreshingly hectic
January 2023
TV review
Romantic Getaway review – Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan are brilliant in IVF heist caper
This romcom/thriller about a couple who steal from their work sees its two leads – and Johnny Vegas as their boss – form a killer trio. Expect daft fun
June 2022
TV review
Backstage With Katherine Ryan review – there are laughs, but why does it feel so cringemaking?
Ryan and fellow standups from Jimmy Carr to Desiree Burch are filmed behind the scenes, but no one really lets rip. What a wasted opportunity
Backstage With Katherine Ryan – the secrets of standups revealed, kind of
A series that promises to expose the offstage antics of comics including Seann Walsh and Jimmy Carr gets off to a slick and intriguing start
The seven best shows to stream this week
Ms Marvel to Hacks: the seven best shows to stream this week
Iman Vellani gives the Marvel Cinematic Universe its first Muslim teenage hero, while Jean Smart lights up the screen with witty brilliance as veteran Vegas comic Deborah Vance
April 2022
Katherine Ryan review – softer, more sympathetic but just as razor sharp
Missus – an account of her unexpected marriage to her childhood sweetheart and their surprisingly traditional new life together– is quite a departure from Ryan’s showy cynicism
November 2021
Katherine Ryan: ‘I thought plastic surgery was aspirational’
The comedian will have you in stitches, but she can also leave you speechless. Katherine Ryan talks to Eva Wiseman about breast implants and potty training – and the jokes even she wouldn’t risk today
September 2021
Reality checked
Fake princes and double-crossing daters: how liars took over reality TV
Yomi Adegoke
The watcher
Ready to Mingle: are we suffering from TV dating show fatigue?
May 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Richard Osman’s cultural highlights
The gameshow maestro and bestselling novelist on AJ Tracey’s rhymes, the newfound joys of Radio 3, and longing for the return of live comedy
April 2021
TV review
All That Glitters review – can ‘Bake Off for jewellery’ sparkle?
While the presenter and judges might look a little uncomfortable, thankfully the contestants in BBC Two’s new crafting contest are pure gold
March 2021
The Great Celebrity Bake Off lineup hailed as 'best ever'
Series will raise money for Stand Up To Cancer and features Daisy Ridley, Rob Beckett, Alexandra Burke and Tom Allen
