Hannah Gadsby: Nanette Reviews

Jaida 2022-08-20 21:11:10

Watched a very painful talk show. Two hours later, the palpitations were still still present. This is an actor who has experienced too much trauma. The first half feels that being able to turn trauma into a joke is a kind of sublimation. But the more you look at it, the weaker it becomes. Humor...

Jeramy 2022-08-20 17:03:34

After reading it twice, the shock is still there, and then I understand why I used "Bobby Reid" at the beginning, a gothic folk song, repeatedly singing: Won't you cut me down? ...

At the beginning, the piece of chalk hanging beside the sink was about the inspiration for this Nanette special. Later,...

General 2022-08-20 15:55:39

I could see tears streaming down my face, this was far more than a stand-up, it was a shout.

Many people ask the weak/victims to tell their stories with a smile from the perspective of the strong/invisible raging ones. Don't be too brooding. Only laughter can heal your wounds. You have to be...

Yvonne 2022-08-20 15:36:16

I knew Hannah Gadsby a long time ago. When I watched the LGBTQ Australian drama Please Like Me a few years ago, I was quite impressed with her, only to realize that she has been an old artist who has been talking about stand up comedy for more than ten years. This stand-up episode is Hannah's...

Sedrick 2022-08-20 15:23:23

After watching Hannah Gadsby's farewell show Nanette. It is a shocking work, because it forces people to reflect on the tragic nature of "comedy" when watching a comedy. Nanette is more like a comment on "comedy" itself—about what it hides and how it makes marginalized people share the humiliation...