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Its funny, it’s sad, it’s engaging, I loved it. I like how she didn’t shy away from the less good things that she has experienced and seemed to put in all the important life events instead of just adding the good and funny ones. A lot of good advice and things I could relate to: alcoholic family, doing stupid stuff when you are young, being yourself. Whatever strangers think of me is fine with me. How audacious is that? I can always take a joke, I don’t waste time worrying about things I can’t control. I embrace the reality that you just can’t please everyone, so you might as well put yourself out there and have a laugh. As my mother always said, "Katherine, if we all liked the same thing, we’d all be married to your father."
The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough
Katherine will soon be seen hosting primetime BBC Two jewellery-making competition series, All That Glitters. She hosted the marquee all-female special of Channel 4's Cats Does Countdown and was a team captain on the most recent series of 8 Out of 10 Cats for E4. Katherine also co-hosted C4's 2019 tentpole Alternative Election Special with Krishnan Guru Murthy. She has been a stalwart on all the UK's major panel shows and has co-hosted six series of Your Face or Mine, alongside judging four series of Roast Battle for Comedy Central.He hovered over me to listen, not because he believed there was any real problem but because I was generally a little shit teenager who was probably lying and had liar pals.
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Unsurprisingly Ryan does not gloss over the many issues she faces that her male co-workers in comedy don’t. While some may take the time to rest on their laurels at this point in their career, Ryan continues to work incredibly hard, even when suffering from a miscarriage – an event she writes beautifully about – she is determined not to miss a work engagement later that day. I can't say that it was an amazing book, but it was good, funny, interesting and Ryan did a great job at reading it. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it and can't wait for her next stand-up or even a book, maybe!It is clear that Ryan is all about taking chances, from auditioning as a dancer for a Sean Paul video to entering comedy competitions such as the Funny Women Awards which she won in 2008. The thread that runs through this book is Ryan’s incredible work ethic, whether it’s comedy, mothering or waitressing at Hooters she puts her all into it. From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and dangerously astute handbook of life instruction. Round the corner from the restaurant there was a comedy club and one day she signed up for its amateur night. “Not because I wanted to be a comedian, but because it would be fun for me, my secret. And then in the rest of my life I’d be a good girl, well liked, a good wife. It was a little exorcism of, well… audacity.” When she came off stage after that first set, where she joked about being a “dumb, useless girl”, she realised nothing had made her feel so shit and so alive all at once. She couldn’t wait to do it again. If I have to reassess what I’ve said, or apologise, I’ll do that Freshly 19, I’d successfully evaded the need to end any of my relationships by cleverly being undesirable and always dumped first. I’d recently started a job in [my hometown] Sarnia’s best summer restaurant, where I was often paired on the bar with an older girl called Jessica.
The Audacity By Katherine Ryan | Used | 9781788703987 | World The Audacity By Katherine Ryan | Used | 9781788703987 | World
From the star of The Duchess and the host of 'Telling Everybody Everything', the debut book from superstar comedian Katherine Ryan. I loved people who were candid with me. It made me feel valued. Some of the other girls would hide away to have private conversations with their closer friends but Jessica included anyone at the table without bias. That’s how it happens,” Mum answered bleakly. “If you leave them, they sometimes kill you. No reporters will come. This happens all the time.” Duly f***ing noted. Detailing Katherine's journey from a naive ex-Hooters waitress fresh off the boat from Canada to comedy megastar, chapters will cover How to Potty Train Your Baby at 10 Months, How to Cut Off Your Racist Aunties, How to Marry Your High School Boyfriend and How to Co-Parent when you're a Single Mum.
Jessica wasn’t my sister or my best friend, and I realise I’ve centred myself quite a lot here but that’s because I’m writing a book and her life and brutal murder is something I still consider often, nearly 20 years later. I was afraid. I’d laugh at my own grandiosity and say, ‘Get over yourself, Katherine. No one wants to murder you.’ But deep down, I really believed that they might. I wish that I had been more honest and courageous in my exit strategies, but I know that I did the best I could at the time and I calculated risk based on the information I had.
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star all round greatness. Funny. Sad. Honest. Congruent. Unapologetic. Reflective. Beautiful. Audacious. I ❤ Katherine Ryan very much. Can't wait to see her in Cardiff in 2022 (pando permitting). Georgia Pritchett on Succession, swearing and anxiety: ‘As a comedy writer, I felt it was my job to be happy’ I loved Katherine Ryan in Taskmaster, so I was super excited to listen to this! I thought there were a lot of interesting stories in this and I definitely loved hearing Katherine Ryan narrate them herself.While I've been very blessed to have worked in comedy for over a decade, The Audacity gives me the opportunity to connect with people more fully and honestly than a panel show allows. I've learned to be a sharp-shooter on stage, but there are so many stories that I'm eager to tell in more sincere, longer form. I hope it gives people a laugh, an insight, and hopefully some encouragement on how to live their most fulfilled, authentic lives.'
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