Just in a different time slot,'' Andrews said. Roisin Conaty interview: ‘Comedy is like sex or food.''It's kind of the same feel, vibe and chemistry with the same people who I get to work alongside every day. Have I Got News For You? and the problem of women: ‘Before I’d even said anything they’d flagged up that I was a woman, who had tits’ Twitter: more by Alice Jones: Countdown’s Dictionary Corner Queen Susie Dent: ‘I’m actually quite spontaneous’ Here’s an anagram for you, Channel 4: shibtull. On next week’s Cats Does Countdown, it’s business as usual, with one female guest – Ryan, again. Is this the brave new world, then? In five years women might not be, as Ryan put it in her opening monologue, “wearing mens’ balls for earrings” but will they get to host, be captains, even break into the top 10 earners? Well, no. There is no-one else who could berate a set of panellists at the end of a terrible numbers round with “stupid bitches”, and get away with it. One step at a time” – Jimmy Carr should be very afraid. One step at a time’Īs for the wonderfully tart Kween Ryan – who introduced the show with the words: “It’s an all-female, cis-gendered, mostly white women line-up. Tart Kween Katherine Ryan introduced the show with, ‘It’s an all-female, cis-gendered, mostly white women line-up. I could have done with a few less shoehorned-in jokes about suffragettes but for the most part this was a champagne-fuelled joy, with sharp, rude, laugh-out-loud riffs on everything from etymology to oral sex, mermaids to female-only insults (“frumpy” “airhead”) – and a joke about a Bloody Mary that made me gasp with delight. It was still the same old Cats does Countdown – funny, silly, full of quick wit, slow arithmetic and time-bending feats during the challenges – with the added bonus of watching Britain’s finest female comedians sparring off each other, rather than off four men, for a change (What a nice, simple joy it is to see “Lolly & Sara”, “Roisin & Jessica” on the team sheet). The important thing is that the line-up didn’t make a blind bit of difference. Here's a clip of host Katherine Ryan ( talking to Natalie Cassidy (played by Morgana Robinson). See moreĪ special episode of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown is on Channel 4 on Friday at 9pm. When you look at it that way, one show out of 97 so far “celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage” looks a bit daft. There have certainly never been that many on Cats Does Countdown – which up until December last year had featured 73% male guests. There haven’t been that many women on a comedy panel show since The Cheeky Girls appeared in the line-up round on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Read more: The top 12 BBC earners have been revealed – and they are all menĨ Out of 10 Cats has finally let a woman sit in the big chairĢ5 of Katherine Ryan’s most cutting jokes and put-downs Rachel Riley and Susie Dent continued in their regular expert roles, making the female tally eight. Regular presenter Jimmy Carr was replaced by Katherine Ryan for the night, Roisin Conaty, Jessica Hynes, Sara Pascoe and Lolly Adefope were the captains and players and Morgana Robinson was in Dictionary Corner, hilarious in character as Eastenders actress Natalie Cassidy. Meanwhile, Channel 4 did its bit for the gender opportunity gap tonight with the first ever all-female edition of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. Jane Garvey of Woman’s Hour has declared the pace of change to be “glacial.” The aim is for the list to be 50/50 men and women by 2020. The BBC claims progress – the number of women paid £150,000 or more increased from 14 to 22 in the year up to 31 March – 34% of the overall list. Who knew he was five times better at his weekend job? Winkleman, ranked 13th on the list, earns £370,000 – 380,000 (not including her Strictly salary as that comes under the BBC Studios arm), which is a fifth of what Gary Lineker – at No 1 on the salary list with £1.75million – earns. As it is, only two women – Claudia Winkleman and Vanessa Feltz – make it into the top 20. Why are women so lousy at presenting? They must be, or at least one of them would have nudged their way into the top 12 most highly paid presenters at the BBC.
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