Katherine Ryan

When: 9th May 2025
Location: SEC Armadillo

Katherine Ryan, the fearlessly witty Canadian comedian is back with her new tour “Battleaxe”. Coming to Glasgow’s SEC Armadillo on 9th May 2025.

Born and raised in a small town in Ontario. The Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan found comedy stardom after she relocated to London. Finding kindred spirits on the capital’s stand-up scene helped the former Hooters staff trainer. (Ryan claimed she was fired for writing “club sandwiches not seals” on a specials board). Her voice and progress from open mic nights to eventually becoming a familiar face on panel shows and a team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats.

Ryan proved herself to be something of a spiritual successor to the late Joan Rivers. This was due to her fondness for caustic put-downs and willingness to venture into dangerous territory in pursuit of a joke. These traits also earned her a spot alongside the similarly minded Jimmy Carr on Channel 4’s Your Face Or Mine. Not to mention the Netflix panel show The Fix.

By 2019, Ryan had cemented a productive partnership with the streaming giant, including two well received comedy specials, Glitter Room and In Trouble. An appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? led to a trip home to Canada and a reconnection with her childhood sweetheart, who she later married in 2019. That same year, Katherine Ryan toured the UK for a second time.

In 2020, Netflix released the sitcom The Duchess, written by and starring Ryan as a single mother in London. Ryan has said the series is a heightened version of her own life story, particularly in her portrayal of a single mother in a foreign city.

In late 2020, Katherine Ryan announced her Missus UK tour, set to kick off in September 2021 and run until May 2022. The name of the tour references the previously determinedly single Ryan’s newly married status.

In early 2021, she announced a live broadcast of Telling Everybody Everything as part of the inaugural Podcast Stop festival in London on 27 May 2021 and also added 12 more dates to her massive Missus UK tour.

In 2023, Ryan starred in the Sky Original comedy series, Romantic Getaway, with Romesh Ranganathan, as well as The Lionesses: A League of Their Own special with Jill Scott and Maisie Adam. She also surprised everyone with her performance on The Masked Singer as the much loved Pigeon, and hosted UKTV’s hugely popular new series Parental Guidance.

Ryan announced her return to the stage in 2024 with a brand-new UK and European tour, Battleaxe.