Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

source: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

Comedian / Public Speaker, you have the best of both worlds with Hannah. Just be warned that you're not going to come out of this without something to think about. If you want to remain brain dead like some of those men she names in the show then you may want to watch something else instead. If you want to be enlightened, I highly recommend it! Thank you Hannah for telling your story and giving us the motivation to make tomorrow a better place.

Even the jokes before the lecture was mediocre comedy then the lecture was just pure cringe. not funny, not entertaining just couldn't have been any worse. I wouldn't recommend this to people I can't stand.

Unapologetic and strong. Hannah Gadsby is braking walls and opening discussion in ways very few people have ever been able to do. An absolute must watch. For any and everyone willing to have an open mind and embrace change. If you go away from This and feel the need to tell someone else to watch it. Then you understood the message and how our complacency to evil is damaging our humanity. A comic and serious masterpiece

Hannah Gadsby clearly doesn't care about the audience, or what they came to see. This was not a comedy routine, this was Hannah Gadsby feeling sorry for herself and using the audience as her own personal therapist, venting all her anger and frustration and not even attempting to put a comedic flare to it. The only thing that was funny was when she added, towards the end, that while she did have the right to feel anger, she didn't have the right to spread anger. Funny, because that's what she spent her entire time doing. I don't deny that Gadsby has a story to tell, a powerful story, and the right to tell it, but the first rule in show business is to give the audience what they want. The performer is there for the audience, not the other way around. The awkward silences and nervous laughs do indeed suggest that the audience had gone in expecting something different. Even if she manages to convince some women in the audience that this was good stuff, because she's a woman and "you tell it, sister", it is still profoundly disrespectful and incredibly selfish. Just as if you went to a restaurant and ordered veal but got lasagne instead - for no other reason than that's what the chef felt like making. I don't care if you love lasagne, it's still not what you ordered, and you would probably be a little miffed to learn that you were given the wrong dish on purpose because the chef is a narcissistic ****.

It starts off a stand up special but takes a turn for the serious. Hannah is a strong and powerful woman, weaving the through comedy, women's issues, lgbqti issues and modern art. Don't expect to laugh the whole way through but you will walk away feeling feelings.

Another political act... boring and overdone. Hypocritical too. Don't watch.

Women deserve the same rights as men. Hypocritical unfounded rants like this do massive damage to that cause. This is not comedy. Feminism started off as "some men act like idiots, so let's hold them to a higher standard." What it has descended into is "some men act like idiots, therefore let's all act like idiots." That is what this routine represents. There are no jokes. It's just one long winge, guilty of the gross generalisations the performer criticises. Hannah talks about unfair discrimination because she's a lesbian. Then hypocritically spends 40 minutes discriminating against all men. She gives a handful of examples. She actually says the words "these men are not the exception, they are the rule".

This is the strongest anti-comedy show I have ever seen! I did not expect to go through this kind of range of emotions. What an incredible performance by Hannah Gadsby!

I had never heard of Hannah Gadsby before so this was a pretty random choice. A happy choice. I'll give you some context: I have a fairly busy life, with two children under five, a job and a half, a boyfriend and a divorce in progress. I had not had a night alone in a long time, and, let me tell you: I was excited about MY time alone in MY house. Hannah was the perfect date for the occasion. I also identify with "tired". Other than that I am an heterosexual white woman in her prime. This should be irrelevant but reading the other comments seems necessary to mention, because NO, this content does not appeal only to a particular community as some want you to believe. I am a woman, but the male attention I received throughout life, being heterosexual, feminine, said attractive, was quite different from Hannah's experience. One experience does not invalidate the other. This content is about connection and Hannah makes us feel connected. There is a less colorful community in which Hannah and I are together. I'm also a funny person, and I've been using humor all my life to deal with my frailties. It's something that has been in my mind lately, the need to be vulnerable to create real connections, something I struggle to achieve, I'm still working on it sitting in my world protected with walls of jokes that I'm not yet ready to knock over. and so I bow before Hannah Gadsby because, wow, this was bold and brave and we, from this other community, needed it. Thank you Hannah.