Katherine Ryan has spoken out once again about sexual misconduct in the comedy industry as she claimed one male comedian showed other cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women.
The Canadian comedian, 41, explained that the incident happened while backstage in the green room of a big show.
Speaking on the latest episode of the Nip Tuck podcast with hosts Ashley Stobart and Lauren Adamson the three women discussed the Me Too movement as Katherine opened up about being a woman in the industry.
While Katherine didn’t identify the comedian, she did state that he isn’t British.
She explained: ‘I’ve been in green rooms where very famous male comedians. One male comedian in particular... I will say it’s not British.
‘He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he was in a room on a big show. I was one of a few women on that bill, maybe three women.
Katherine Ryan has revealed how a ‘very famous, rich, powerful’ male comedian showed a younger female colleague videos of himself having sex
‘And there was a young female comedian who was starting out who was next to him, and he was with all the lads, showing pictures and videos on his phone that he had taken of himself having sex with women.
‘So, like, really intimate photos, intimate videos and he was showing them. His penis was in a lot of these videos.’
Revealing how the comedian came to Katherine for support she continued: ‘She felt very uncomfortable about that and then she came into my dressing room to be like, “Oh, I didn’t like him showing me that” and she’s about to go on stage.
‘She’s very new. I was even quite new at that time, but yeah, stuff like that and being a minority in that situation, which female comedians, especially when I was starting out, were always minorities.’
She added: ‘In every green room, every dressing room, there are things we can’t do that the boys can do.
‘We can’t take a night bus. We can’t sleep on the floor with like, four other comedians starting out a lot of times. We have children that we have to look after, and then we get fans who, like, could kill us.’
She told the hosts: ‘So, like, really intimate photos, intimate videos and he was showing them. H is penis was in a lot of these videos’
Revealing how the comedian came to Katherine for support she continued: ‘She felt very uncomfortable about that’
Meanwhile in January Katherine opened up about her ‘scary’ experiences with men in the early days of her television career.
Speaking to Good Housekeeping UK she recalled some encounters with male fans who tried to follow her home after gigs.
She said: ‘When I started doing television, male audience members could be weird with me.
‘I had this following of very strange lone-wolf men… Before I had a tour manager, they’d follow me on to the train and keep talking to me.
‘I was trying to be polite and create a boundary, but some of those interactions were scary.’
She also discussed calling out sexual predators in the world of comedy but said that she has been lucky with most of the shows she has worked on.
Katherine said: ‘No one has tried anything weird with me because I’m probably very scary.
‘I’m aware that by saying that I could be seen to be victim blaming, so I want to make it clear that I’m not saying someone else has received poor treatment because they’ve got ‘the wrong energy’.
‘I’ve been lucky, in part, I think, because of the guys I came up with – Joe Lycett, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan are just really, really good guys.’
