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TV Review: How’d You Get So Rich?

April 19, 2017 by Becca Moody

How’d You Get So Rich? Now there’s a programme I didn’t expect to particularly like.
Be entertained by, perhaps, but value comedically? Not expected at all.

The premise is simple. It’s a revamp of the 2009-10 US series presented by the late
Joan Rivers. Katherine Ryan, often hailed as the next generation of Rivers’ cutthroat
comedy, introduces viewers to numerous businessmen and women from all across
the globe, from an interior designer for the super rich, a ten-year-old girl with her own
fashion lines and a pair of men from Somerset who made their fortune manufacturing
sex toys.

What makes this format work is undeniably the force that is Katherine Ryan. She is
sharp, sarcastic and unforgiving; anyone who has seen her stand up knows that
already. But what surprised me about her appearance on this programme is her
undying self-sacrifice comedically. She is happy to be the butt of the jokes and
unafraid to make a fool of herself. This is the programme where Katherine’s personal
character is able to shine through most. It feels like the world is getting to know this
comic personally.

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Despite my initial scepticism, this programme is remarkably lacking in spite. How’d
You Get So Rich? is not a programme about people who have had everything
handed to them. It is a programme about creative individuals who have crafted and
grafted and forged a career despite an array of surprising odds and situational
difficulties. Yes, the wealth in some cases seems excessive. Why do the rich need a
special plumber that only works for rich people? Why do royal couples need a zoo in