Katherine Ryan

Katherine Ryan came into my consciousness as a guest on several UK panel shows. She supposedly came to the UK from Canada, to help set up a branch of Hooters in Nottingham. A one month trip turned out to be permanent and she’s now become a familiar face in the UK comedy scene and on British panel shows. She did a noticeable stint with ‘the Last Leg’ during the Paralympics in Brazil and the last thing I heard she was as a participant in ‘Fake News’ where she’d put out a false story about having had a Bum Lift that went wrong. The story was picked up by a few of the British tabloid newspapers which lead to her winning the Best Fake News story of the show.

Katherine is funny! There’s no ifs and butts about it (excuse the pun). Even her website serves as a simple but perfect gag for a comedienne. Check it out: http://www.katherineryan.co.uk

Sharon Horgan

Sharon Horgan - she’s from Hackney innit!? Yea - I know, that Irish accent does not give it away. She only stuck around for 4 years before she packed up her parents and travelled to County Meath in Ireland to raise some Turkeys. (If you live in Hackney then you know we’ve all been there, dreaming of that life.)

Sharon is the hottest talent on the sitcom circuit at the moment. She’s best known for playing in and co-writing Pulling and Catastrophe. Both series having won several of awards. Now she’s back with a new series, The Circuit. Based around dinner parties, a backdrop perfect for uncomfortable viewing, hilarious moments and more if her previous work is anything to go by. It starts with some new neighbours having moved in and their first invite to a dinner at the neighbours. What a perfect setting for comedy, tension and some hard hitting truths no doubt. I’ll happily watch it unfold as best I can, with a TV dinner and a bottle of wine.

Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer is the hottest comedy act on the circuit at the moment. Her 10 minute acceptance speech at the Glamour awards caused belly aches from laughter and even saw Jennifer Saunders in the background cracking up. She sure doesn’t pull any punches as far as graphic content is concerned and sees no need to hold anything back or polish the truth in any way.  She comes across as completely genuine, as if it’s her uncensored mind that rambles on without quite knowing that her mouth is vocalising her thoughts. 

My shoot was a part of a press junket in Soho Hotel. She had back to back interviews and shoots for 2 days, promoting her new film Trainwreck. And that was only the UK part of the junket. I was looking forward to an uncensored Amy, giving me poses that would probably not be fit for publication. Any other day I am sure that would have been the case, but as she was in the middle of a row of shoots and interviews I had the feeling that she had had enough of striking poses or retorting with hard hitting comments during interviews.  I did however feel that her poses were struck in the same way as much of her humour. Her moves were somewhat unconscious and automatic, as if it was a move she had thought of but she was not quite aware of doing.  A few face expressions before gravity got hold of her and she again found herself lying the floor, (something she became known for having done on the red carpet in front of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian). She continued by crawling out of the room which left the whole room silent, but not shocked. With Amy we just have to expect the unexpected.