Seann Walsh has had a haircut. “You look like Roger Daltrey after a car crash,” says Jimmy Carr, thoughtfully. “Not a terrible car crash, but … something’s fucked.” “You look like an emoji,” replies Walsh. As you can probably tell, they are standup comedians and great friends.
Backstage With Katherine Ryan (Amazon Prime Video) is predicated on the promise of seeing the men and women behind the comic masks. Four standups arrive at the revered London Roundhouse to deliver sets and are surveilled by cameras in their dressing rooms, in the corridors and in the wings. In this way, we are told, we will glean insight into the wonders of the job, the real people behind the performances, as well as getting to see each set and the reactions of compere Ryan and the others waiting to go on.
