The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough: The Sunday Times bestseller

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Kate Stone is the editor of Funny Women and an award-winning script writer. She has written comedy sketches for the BBC's 100 Women project and created the Funny Women Awards Comedy Shorts category. Like Katherine Ryan herself, The Audacity is hilarious, sharp and brilliantly honest * Josh Widdicombe *

The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough The Audacity: Why Being Too Much Is Exactly Enough

I also want to empower people, and I think I do that for a lot of women’: Katherine Ryan wears dress by Roksanda Selfridges (selfridges.com). Photograph: Dean Chalkley/The ObserverJessica wasn’t my sister or my best friend, and I realise I’ve centred myself quite a lot here but that’s because I’m writing a book and her life and brutal murder is something I still consider often, nearly 20 years later. Presumably, if you are going to read the book, you are like me a fan of Katherine and through her great podcast, also a fan of Violet. The book covers her life so far which has been exciting and sometimes traumatic in her usual pragmatic style. I listened on Audible as I love to hear authors reading their own stories and I find Katherine’s voice very appealing. The audiobook also has a bonus half hour from Katherine’s mother Julie, an intelligent, funny and very wise woman. Are you a budding Director? Producer? Screenwriter? Are you collaborating with friends to make a funny video? Then we are looking for YOU!

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Award-winning comedian, writer, presenter and actress, TV's Katherine Ryan, is currently dominating the television and live comedy scenes, both in the UK and abroad. Born and raised in Canada, she has lived in the UK since 2008 and currently lives in London with her daughter Violet and husband Bobby. The world changes – this is something she is keen to teach the young people in her life. “Violet might look at me and say, ‘Why work at Hooters, that’s not very feminist?’ Well, I was just living in the world that I was in, and it was different. And we didn’t have smartphones, Violet, and this was still acceptable. It’s not like I was misbehaving – that’s what the world was.” She exhales meditatively. “If I was the same person 10 years ago that I am today, that would be horrible. Don’t you think?” Honestly? We could do worse.If you have a short film or sketch that you think is hilarious, then enter your work for our Comedy Shorts Award to be in with a chance of winning some life-changing support and mentoring from comedy professionals. There are men who think I’m a dominatrix’: Katherine Ryan wears coat by jilsander.com and shoes by aquazzura.com. Photograph: Dean Chalkley/The Observer This book is honest, hilarious, sometimes upsetting but written from the heart by a brilliant writer.

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Overall it was just okay for me though and ranks rather low in the list of celebrity memoirs I have read or listened to. Like Katherine, this book is witty as hell, sharp as a razor and yet still sensitive, insightful and kind * Tom Allen * Outrageously brilliant! Katherine's straight-talking, no-nonsense book is the honesty we all need. I'm buying this for all my friends * Laura Whitmore * The private party did go ahead but it became something of a sombre wake; people murmured quietly for a bit, offered their condolences to any crying staff and left early. Detailing Katherine's journey from a nave ex-Hooters waitress fresh off the boat from Canada to comedy megastar, chapters will cover How to Potty Train Your Baby at 10 Months, How to Cut Off Your Racist Aunties, How to Marry Your High School Boyfriend and How to Co-Parent when you're a Single Mum.

I can't say that it was an amazing book, but it was good, funny, interesting and Ryan did a great job at reading it. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it and can't wait for her next stand-up or even a book, maybe! Round the corner from the restaurant there was a comedy club and one day she signed up for its amateur night. “Not because I wanted to be a comedian, but because it would be fun for me, my secret. And then in the rest of my life I’d be a good girl, well liked, a good wife. It was a little exorcism of, well… audacity.” When she came off stage after that first set, where she joked about being a “dumb, useless girl”, she realised nothing had made her feel so shit and so alive all at once. She couldn’t wait to do it again. If I have to reassess what I’ve said, or apologise, I’ll do that What I appreciated about this book was that she is very honest, even about the really gross details about some of the unfitting, horrible, gross relationships she has had. Things that can be a source of shame for a lot of women and she talks about it so candidly, things you really wouldn't want other people to know about. And certainly she's been free to write it down and not discount that part of her life. The kind of "what the hell was I thinking" kind of moments. She puts it all out there. Ryan is refreshingly unashamed of the teenager and 20-something she was, obsessed with fake tan, fake boobs, and reality TV. Why should she be? She was the precise marketing target. Young women of the noughties were and are often dismissed as frivolous and trashy. It was an odd time before we’d learned about intersectional feminism and slutwalks. We were being encouraged to learn to pole dance but only if it were for fitness purposes. It was during this time Ryan started working at famous restaurant chain Hooters, where she found a supportive matriarchy that appreciated her humour and gave Ryan her first hosting gig. That’s how it happens,” Mum answered bleakly. “If you leave them, they sometimes kill you. No reporters will come. This happens all the time.” Duly f***ing noted.

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As much as I liked to think of myself as an adult from birth, I was a teenager when this happened and it left quite a traumatic imprint that I’ve had to work very hard to overcome for the benefit of my healthy relationships with men. Dread and confusion spread through the building before the worst was confirmed by police showing up to question Jessica’s friends who’d last seen her. There are no secrets in a small town, so when we opened our doors, customers came in already privy to what had happened. Jessica’s close friends at the restaurant were understandably hysterical, so many of them went either home or to the police station. Films are judged for production, concept, delivery/performance, creativity, writing and overall funniness. The top 10 films are then viewed by an independent judging panel of top television and film industry professionals who will choose one overall winner and two runners up. The final three will be invited to attend the grand final in London on the 23rd September. Katherine is one of the smartest, funniest voices in comedy... an icon of our time. This book is absolutely hilarious, deeply insightful and truly original. You will love and devour The Audacity * Lou Sanders * A lot of good advice and things I could relate to: alcoholic family, doing stupid stuff when you are young, being yourself.

I'm often asked how I developed my lurid level of courage and assurance and for tips on how others can match. The Audacity is my chance to share my blueprint for just that. You will One thing to note was, despite being a memoir, Katherine still manages to keep the identities of her past boyfriends (including the really terrible ones) anonymous which—although a pretty classy (and legally savvy) move— did disappoint me a little. Though the choice to forgo naming and shaming is understandable especially given society’s toxic obsession with Cancel culture (which is something Katherine also manages to explore in a later chapter) But other than that, it’s really good. Having not yet made this connection, I flew around the house in a furious rage, ranting about how the bar should have immediately closed for observance, about how international news cameras would soon be descending upon the town to cover the story and about how wild it was that a young woman we knew was killed by a man we were also familiar with. He wasn’t a stranger or a demon or a masked intruder but a person Jessica had once trusted and loved.