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change (What a nice, simple joy it is to see “Lolly & Sara”, “Roisin & Jessica” on the

team sheet).

I could have done with a few less shoehorned-in jokes about suffragettes but for the

most part this was a champagne-fuelled joy, with sharp, rude, laugh-out-loud riffs on
everything from etymology to oral sex, mermaids to female-only insults ("frumpy"

"airhead") - and a joke about a Bloody Mary that made me gasp with delight.

Tart Kween Katherine Ryan introduced the show with, 'It’s an
all-female, cis-gendered, mostly white women line-up. One
step at a time'

As for the wonderfully tart Kween Ryan - who introduced the show with the words:

“It’s an all-female, cis-gendered, mostly white women line-up. One step at a time” -

Jimmy Carr should be very afraid. There is no-one else who could berate a set of
panellists at the end of a terrible numbers round with “stupid bitches”, and get away

with it. Long may she reign.

Is this the brave new world, then? In five years women might not be, as Ryan put it in

her opening monologue, “wearing mens’ balls for earrings” but will they get to host,

be captains, even break into the top 10 earners? Well, no. On next week’s Cats
Does Countdown, it’s business as usual, with one female guest - Ryan, again.

Here’s an anagram for you, Channel 4: shibtull.

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