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Katherine Ryan. Stylist: Jennifer Michalski-Bray; hair and makeup: Fiona Eustace;
jumpsuit: Ong-Oaj Pairam; shoes: Malone Souliers; jewellery: Annoushka.
Photograph: Catherine Harbour

“Single dads are like sexy heroes,” she says, a subject she expands on live. “But if
you’re a single mum there’s still a stigma.”

The special was filmed in LA, where Ryan is less known than in the UK. “It really felt
like proving myself, like you would do at an open mic or a comedy club,” she says.
“But I think that’s always the way it should be. I’ve seen shows where you can tell
people have been laughing at a comedian’s jokes for a while and they shouldn’t have
been. I think you always want to be able to show up and be treated really fairly –
ruthlessly even – by an audience and that’s the only way you’re going to know if
you’re really funny or not”.

Ryan compares having been a single mum to being in the Brie Larson hostage
film Room, “except at least in the film the mum had someone bringing her groceries”.
While she and Violet are supremely close, Ryan is also careful to give her daughter as
much privacy as possible, and refrains from posting pictures of her online.

Kevin Hart was talking about his daughter getting her first period. And I
was like, did she sign off on that?