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E210 - Katherine Ryan: When I had nothing, I had everything

The High Performance Podcast

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The Importance of Language in Stand-Up Comedy

There's no woman in this country with a Saturday night TV show. We get put on in the daytime, even in America. I think they assume we'll be sleepy by then. Women just don't get late night chat shows. It's not fair. They need to put women in these roles. And if they don't please an audience, then they'll lose advertisers. So why are women not putting women on BBC One at eight o'clock on a Saturday night on their own? The way you say something could be not as funny as another way that you might say at a different word that you might choose. You want to hit the right note and choose the right word to draw

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