On 23 February 2013, she appeared as a celebrity contestant on BBC One's "Let's Dance for Comic Relief" as Nicki Minaj dancing to "Starships". Ryan reached the final, and finished in fourth place. Ryan was later featured on the Whitney Cummings Just for Laughs 2013 Gala that was taped before a live audience on 28 July 2013. She has since taken new routines to the Edinburgh Festival. In 2015, Ryan replaced Steve Jones as the presenter of "Hair" on BBC Two. Also in 2015, Ryan became a panellist for Tinie Tempah's team on Sky 1's music/comedy panel show "Bring the Noise" and on the ITV2 show, "Safeword". In 2016, Ryan appeared on series 2 of "Taskmaster". She beat Doc Brown, Joe Wilkinson, Richard Osman and Jon Richardson, to win the entire series. Ryan went on a comedy tour in 2016, called "Kathbum", a name her toddler sister used to call her. In February 2017, Netflix released "Katherine Ryan: In Trouble", featuring her stand-up comedy live performance at the Hammersmith Apollo! in London, during that tour. She joined Jimmy Carr in 2017, to host four series of the reboot of "Your Face or Mine?" In 2018, Ryan joined American comedy panel show, "The Fix" as a team captain. In July 2019, Netflix released her second live stand-up special, "". As an actress, Ryan has appeared on numerous television series in the UK, including the sitcoms "Campus", "Episodes" and "Badults". Ryan wrote a weekly column in the British entertainment magazine "NME". On 6 June 2014, YouTube comedy duo Jack and Dean released a music video for their song "Consent", featuring Ryan in an acting role. In 2016, Ryan provided the voice of the stuck up white, odd-eyed cat and leader of The Sunshine Circle for Cats Ranceford in Disney XD and Teletoon's animated television series "Counterfeit Cat". For her comedy work, Ryan won the Nivea Funny Women Award. She was also runner-up in the Amused Moose Laugh-Off competition in 2008. Ryan has a daughter, Violet, with a former boyfriend whom she had been with for three years. She and her daughter live in Crouch End, London. In 2019, Ryan entered into a civil partnership with Bobby Kootstra. The ceremony took place in Denmark in presence of her daughter. She and Koostra had dated in Canada as teenagers and were reunited when Ryan returned to her hometown while filming an episode of the TV show "Who Do You Think You Are?".