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- CF: Katherine Ryan & Friends
About the show
Join powerhouse award-winning comedian, writer, presenter and actor Katherine Ryan for a fiercely funny night. She’ll be joined by her funniest friends to bring the laughter all night long.
Joining Katherine will be Judi Love, Michelle de Swarte, Lou Sanders, and Jack Skipper.
Michelle de Swarte, fresh from her sell-out national stand up tour ‘The Afters’, is an actor, comedian, presenter and writer. She wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed Spent for BBC Two. Her comedy appearances include Live at the Apollo, and panel show appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and The Last Leg.
Straight-talking Judi Love is one of the UK’s most loved performers. A brilliantly engaging comic on stage, marking herself as a firm favourite on the comedy circuit. Judi can be seen as a regular panellist on Loose Women, and has also appeared on a number of TV shows including Taskmaster, The Graham Norton Show, The Ranganation, The Last Leg, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Strictly Come Dancing.
Lou Sanders is one of Britain’s most original comedians. She recently starred in the first series of Last One Laughing, co-hosted Mel Giedroyc’s Unforgivable, and is a previous Taskmaster champion. She is regular face on television having performed stand up on The Late Late Show with James Corden and Live at the Apollo, with other major appearances on QI, Travel Man: 48 Hours in…, Would I Lie to You?, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, and Richard Osman’s House of Games.
South London comic Jack Skipper has recently gone from a carpet fitter with no qualifications to an internet sensation and full-time comedian. Whether telling stories of life as a family man or observations on working-class life, his everyday guy persona has seen him blow up on social media, with over 17 million likes on TikTok alone and 390k followers on Instagram. He recently starred in the Stand Up Sketch Show on ITV2 as well as on Comedy Central Live and has been supporting Michael McIntyre and Josh Widdicombe on tour. His debut stand-up show, ‘Skint’, was praised by Chortle for ‘delivery that commands the room and a no-nonsense outlook that gels into strong punchlines’. It was nominated for the Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2024 after a sell-out run.
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Featuring
Katherine Ryan
The product of a strict Irish father and a glitzy Canadian 'stage mom', Katherine Ryan won neither friends nor pageant titles growing up. Try as she might to shed her questionable perspectives and super sparkly nature, she's not sure we can ever truly escape our childhood indoctrinations. Katherine puts a hilarious spin on many topics including life as a single mum and gender hypocrisy in a laid-back, funny, and downright honest show.
As well as being a writer-performer Katherine is also a talented actress and played the lead role of George in Victoria Pile's Channel 4 series Campus. Katherine also appeared regularly throughout the second series of Episodes as Merc's Assistant.
'She has perfect timing and enough attitude to stop an elephant in its tracks' (Time Out)
'If only every comedian was as acerbic, smart and downright funny as Katherine Ryan' (Eastern Daily Press)
'This entertaining hour... flies by... all the hallmarks of an increasingly assured comic...' (Steve Bennett, Chortle)
'Warped wit... striking presence... killer lines... calm confidence' (The Scotsman)
'Thoughtful, funny and just twisted enough' (The Times).
Katherine Ryan was named in Ents24's top 5 hardest-working comedians of 2015.
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Judi Love
Judi’s motto ‘Laughter is Healing’ provides a very accurate insight into how she deals with life’s many obstacles. Judi will take everyday situations, add her unique perspective and turn it into something hilarious. It’s the type of humour that resonates in people from all walks of life.
Judi Love’s natural charisma, sharp wit and animated communication style keeps her in constant demand for; stand up comedy shows both as a performer and host.
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Michelle De Swarte
Michelle De Swarte is an actress, comedian and writer. Born in South London, Michelle was spotted by a model scout at the age of 19 and moved to New York, where she became heavily involved in the comedy scene.
Since moving back to London she starred as a series regular in Katherine Ryan’s Netflix series The Duchess, as well as playing the lead role of Natasha in HBO/Sister Pictures series The Baby.
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Lou Sanders
Lou Sanders surrealist style and high octane stage presence make her a joy to watch. She has appeared on ‘Alan Davies As Yet Untitled’, and starred in ‘Live from the BBC’. Her TV stand-up includes sets on ABC1’s ‘Comedy Up Late’ and ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’. Lou has written for ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’, ‘Mock the Week’, ‘Stand Up for the Week’ and ‘Miranda’.
'Utterly delightful and hugely talented... Destined for hugeness' (Time Out)
'When Lou rips a room into hysteria, she really rips it hard' (The Sun)
'... an hour of non-stop entertainment with seriously big laughs, wild and free and very, very funny’ (Chortle)
'... crazy off-beat surrealism' (The Independent).
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