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Yes, she Canuck... Katherine Ryan. Photograph: Idil Sukan

Katherine Ryan
In Trouble Netflix

Joan Rivers (RIP) has many successors but Ryan, all Botox and badass takedowns,
must be her truest heir. This sees her not yet grown into her Glitter Room greatness,
but nonetheless hilarious on her rural Canadian roots.
Best bit: “Yeah, but you bitches aren’t normal, you’re ordinary. It’s different.” EEJ

The League of Gentlemen

Live Again! BBC iPlayer

Local shop, loco people: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
reactivated their beloved Royston Vasey grotesques for this 2018 show, with some
genuine pathos amid the unsettling humour and gooey slapstick.
Best bit: Herr Lipp leads the audience in a highly inappropriate German lesson. GV

Leslie Jones
Time Machine Netflix

Here’s the Saturday Night Live veteran and Chris Rock’s favourite standup, in a
special directed by Game of Thrones’s Benioff and Weiss, no less. She is reflecting on
the decades, but once she gets to partying, even a loose eyelash can’t stop her.
Best bit: Recreating at length the fully choreographed dance routine that a 20-year-
old Jones once whipped out to impress Prince. EEJ

Liam Williams
Live from the BBC BBC iPlayer

A rare opportunity to see the Pls Like man in standup mode. This set may not burn as
brightly as his best work, but its account of eye tests, foot injuries and climate change
still finds the downcast Yorkshireman on fine, mordant form.
Best bit: The “No, those are next year’s daffodils come early!” gag about a warming
world. BL