Katherine Ryan brutally roasts Russell Brand after being silenced before

Katherine Ryan is opening up about what it was like to work with Russell Brand on the UK version of Roast Battle for Paramount’s Comedy Central.

During her Sky stand-up special, Katherine Ryan: First Born Daughter, the comedian recalled that she joined the show thinking she’d poke fun at him, "but in a fun way."

Ryan said, "I was invited on a panel show, and I was so excited to do it, but then I found out that if I went on, I would be sat next to a man whom I firmly believe, but can’t prove to be a c***. And that’s the lawyer’s choice of words, not mine."

"Initially, I turned the job down, and then I thought: well, he’ll be there in his unnecessarily tight jeans, won’t he? He’ll be there, finger-banging Tucker Carlson or sucking off a Tibetan monk for views, whatever he does now … I thought I will go on the show, and I made a moral decision," she continued, noting that she decided to make jokes about him.

Brand was "fine with it for a while, until eventually he had a hissy fit and threatened to quit the show."

Ryan revealed that the "channel got upset."

She added, "They didn’t want him to leave, and they issued him a new contract, which he waltzed into my dressing room and threw under my nose the next day. He said: 'Look, you’re not allowed to be mean to me anymore, because I don’t consent.'"

Russell Brand was accused of sexual assault, rape, and other sexual crimes by six women in a bombshell lawsuit in 2023. The allegations made headlines when The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4 published a joint investigation via their Dispatches program.