Page 54 - Katherine Ryan press pack 2015-20

"It doesn’t seem like it would be the typical single mum job, but it really works. I

would recommend it."

Ryan insists that she remains her on-stage self around her daughter.

"I treat her just like any of my friends and I don’t censor myself at all around my
daughter. Now I’ve got the most lovely well-behaved daughter and I think it is

because I treat her completely as an equal. But she does have far too much power in

our house - that’s not backfired yet, but I’m sure it will soon."

"The hardest part about writing comedy to do with the political

sphere right now is not that it’s ridiculous, it’s that it is so sad
and so scary"

It's desperately tricky for comedians on both sides of the Atlantic to avoid the topic of

Donald Trump, given his erratic press-conferences and domination of the news
agenda. This bizarre behaviour has made it difficult to craft jokes that better the

stranger-than-fiction reality.

"I think the hardest part about writing comedy to do with the political sphere right now

is not that it’s ridiculous, it’s that it is so sad and so scary. Comedy is meant to
alleviate the pressure from serious subjects and that’s where satire comes from, and

that's where darker, edgier comedy comes from, but it’s too scary at the moment.

"We have experiences in Canada of Rob Ford - the crack-smoking mayor - who was
kind of like a mini Donald Trump.

"There is this new age where politicians are doing stuff that is so funny that you
couldn’t write it."

Channel 4's How'd You Get So Rich?

In Channel 4's How'd You Get So Rich?, Ryan is tasked with tracking down various

high earners in order to find out the secrets to their success. Asked how she would