Page 209 - Katherine Ryan press pack

The show features ruminations on our celebrity culture obsession (a

topic she also explored in her last touring show, Glam Role Model),

and more personal material about the recent wedding of her younger

sister back in their hometown of Sarnia.

Extra jeopardy for that event was provided by the fact that Katherine’s

sister married a Filipino whose family remained less than enamoured

by a satirical remark made by the comedian on Mock The Week in

2013 (the real target of her joke was the cosmetics industry).

“I’m a good person, that’s the thing; I didn’t want to hurt anyone. I

never want to hurt anybody.

“So, if you’re a fan of the kind of comedy that satirises, you can see

what I’m poking fun at.

“There’s no way that I’d be making cheap jokes about Filipino children
but they just hear the words and that can be really frustrating. I made

a speech at the wedding and I did mention that incident so it got a
little tense in places, but everyone was fine.

“What I wasn’t expecting was that people had bits in their speech at

my expense, but it was all really fun and the last thing I wanted was

for my sister’s wedding to be ruined.”

Across the course of a lengthy tour, Ryan is always keen to include

topical material.

Katherine addedL “It’s tough to do an identical set on and off for a

whole year and an audience can tell when you’re just delivering lines,

so I try to mix things up.