News: Tributes Paid To Comedian Gina Ryan
Tributes have been paid to comedian Gina Ryan, whose death has been reported on social media.
Ryan was a regular performer on the London comedy circuit and appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe in the show Stand Up Women.
Fellow comedian Marian Pashley wrote:"Gina Ryan left us on the Thursday just gone, 20th August, 2020. I knew her before most of you, before comedy, and then, for all the after. I strongly feel her career as a comedian should be remembered, and celebrated, as she was brutally funny, very clever, and a great writer. I'm sure many of you who worked with her will have stories to tell, she lived some great stories...I also wanted people to be reminded, just of her. She shouldn't just slip away, as Gina was a real life force, cared deeply about so many things, and had an opinion on all of them. Incredibly well read, politically active and informed, I rather feel she might have missed her moment by only a few years.
Bless you Gina, miss you forever xxxxx."
Performer Christopher Green wrote:"I am so sad to read this news, Marion. I think of Gina’s great jokes very often. There were more than jokes really, they were inspired gems that were a portal into an entirely different way of seeing the world. “‘Nothing compares to you’ ... quite favourably actually. You’re right, her work should absolutely be celebrated."
Robin Ince added: "Gina was fantastic . I had to follow her every night at the Big Value Comedy show in Edinburgh, I never did as well as her, she was superb night after night. She had some of the most brilliantly dismissive putdowns when misogynistic men heckled her. Particularly fond of the way persistent idiot at a gig in Milton Keynes wouldn't give up but in each return he was smaller than before, shrivelled and destroyed by the end. All it took was a wave of Gina's hand, she dismissed and crushed him each time."
Alistair Barrie quoted one of her jokes: "‘I came out to my father recently. I’m not a lesbian, he’s just a bigot with a weak heart.’" For some reason that joke popped into my head on a run last week as I was crossing a bridge and I remember the moment very specifically. I am not someone who harbours much belief in the spiritual side of things, I just remember thinking very clearly that it was possibly the most perfect joke I’ve heard in the twenty years I’ve been pretending this is a job. RIP Gina. xxx"
Charmian Hughes posted on Facebook: "Oh no Gina was wonderful, So sorry to hear that, a very funny woman, sharp and wild and yes, maybe born out of time."
Brighton-based George Egg wrote: "Oh my goodness that’s so sad. I remember her really fondly. Especially two trips from London to Norwich and back a month apart and both times the gig didn’t happen but we got paid. Such a joyful drive back both times. Haha."
Jeff Green, the UK comic currently in lockdown in Melbourne, wrote: "Very sad news. Sorry to hear this Marian. I remember our nights down the Comedy Caf, Gina was def a woman who held her own and although I didn’t know her deeply I always sensed she was a super smart, passionate and decent person. RIP Gina."
Dominic Frisby added: "I’m so sorry to hear this and send much love. I did the Big Value Comedy Show with her in Edinburgh in 1999 and it became like Groundhog Day she stormed every night like clockwork. Acerbic as fuck. She was a true comic of the old school. My condolences to all her loved ones. Lots of love D"
Bennett Arron wrote: "What?!?!? That's so sad. I worked with her at the Screaming Blue Murder shows for three and a half weeks in Edinburgh and we became friends. I had lost contact over the years which I now regret. She was so funny xx"
Gina Ryan died of cancer on Thursday, August 20.
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