On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights

Katherine Ryan: ‘In Canada, we have rich people and poor people, but we don’t have vast, clashing class systems.’ Photograph: Dean Chalkley/The Observer

Born in Ontario, Canada in 1983, comedian Katherine Ryan won the Funny Women award in 2008. Since then she has appeared on numerous TV sitcoms and panel shows including Taskmaster and 8 Out of 10 Cats. She has two Netflix standup specials, In Trouble and Glitter Room, and in 2020 created Netflix comedy series The Duchess. She has won the outstanding female comedy entertainment performance award at the National Comedy Awards twice, in 2022 and 2023. She lives in London with her husband and three children. Her new tour, Battleaxe, is coming to venues across the UK from 5 September.

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