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. 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 I listened to the audiobook which is narrated by Katherine herself and I personally found it very engaging. The chapters did feel a bit disjointed but it wasn't a major issue. She’d tell me all about the dramatic ups and downs of her relationship, not leaving out any details. Some of what she said was quite private and tragic, but she’d shrug it off or say something funny a second later, the way my favourite confessional comedians do today. She could see lightness in the dark.

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As much as I liked to think of myself as an adult from birth, I was a teenager when this happened and it left quite a traumatic imprint that I’ve had to work very hard to overcome for the benefit of my healthy relationships with men. From the star of The Duchess and the host of 'Telling Everybody Everything', the debut book from superstar comedian Katherine Ryan. 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. Presumably, if you are going to read the book, you are like me a fan of Katherine and through her great podcast, also a fan of Violet. The book covers her life so far which has been exciting and sometimes traumatic in her usual pragmatic style. I listened on Audible as I love to hear authors reading their own stories and I find Katherine’s voice very appealing. The audiobook also has a bonus half hour from Katherine’s mother Julie, an intelligent, funny and very wise woman. Kate Stone is the editor of Funny Women and an award-winning script writer. She has written comedy sketches for the BBC's 100 Women project and created the Funny Women Awards Comedy Shorts category.

I suppose it’s never ideal to ‘scorn’ someone. I have ended relationships in my life but I mostly did so in cowardly ways. And it took me about 18 months more than it should have to finish each one. Georgia Pritchett on Succession, swearing and anxiety: ‘As a comedy writer, I felt it was my job to be happy’ 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.

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The Audacity is exhilarating - fierce, funny and brilliantly written, but there is so much tenderness, honesty and generosity too * Daisy Buchanan * 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." 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! Like Katherine Ryan herself, The Audacity is hilarious, sharp and brilliantly honest * Josh Widdicombe * Outrageously brilliant! Katherine's straight-talking, no-nonsense book is the honesty we all need. I'm buying this for all my friends * Laura Whitmore *Overall it was just okay for me though and ranks rather low in the list of celebrity memoirs I have read or listened to. In the past she’s made jokes she regrets. In one of her specials she starts the show by asking everyone on the front row individually whether they’ve raped anyone. “I wouldn’t do that today. Because it can be very triggering for other people in the audience to hear something like that. At the time, I thought that it was a good way of demonstrating that if you haven’t raped anyone, then it’s a ridiculous question. But for Bill Cosby at the time, you weren’t able to ask him that because obviously, he had.” She thinks for a second. “I don’t think I’d even use the word rape now in a crowd setting. I like being provocative. But if that’s a triggering word for people in the audience who’ve been survivors of abuse, I wouldn’t want to use it.” Are you a budding Director? Producer? Screenwriter? Are you collaborating with friends to make a funny video? Then we are looking for YOU! So, I love Katherinne Ryan for her Netflix comedy special Glitter Room, so I was pretty pumped when I found out she was releasing a book. Massively recommend... I laughed, cried a little and ended up feeling proud to be a strange, small-town sister * Scarlett Moffatt *

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I now remind myself that the vast majority of a woman’s ex-partners are not murderers. Though some are. It’s tough to know which ones to avoid without offending the rest. I’ve tried to speak about my legitimate fears before and been punished for my vulnerability.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.