Standup comedy is one of the most amazing things. When it’s done well, it’s wonderful. Then again, I have been to some open mike nights that were, um, awful.
Just tooling around comedy at YouTube, I encountered Hannah Gadsby. I remember having read about her in the NYT a couple years ago but hadn’t seen any clips until now [NSFW]:
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Hannah Gadsby (born 12 January 1978) is an Australian comedian, writer, actress and television presenter. She rose to prominence after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006, and has since toured internationally as well as appearing on television and radio.
In 2018, the release by Netflix of a film version of Gadsby's stand-up show, Nanette, expanded her international audience and received multiple accolades, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special and a Peabody Award.
Starting in 2019, she toured internationally with her show Douglas.
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“Resting Bitchface” at the dog park:
On a visit to her sister in Adelaide in 2006, Gadsby entered Raw Comedy in 2006, progressing through the heats to win the national prize.[4] As the winner, she was sent to the So You Think You're Funny? competition at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she won second prize.[6] From that point on, she performed stand-up shows at festivals around Australia, such as the Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and Sydney Comedy Festival.
Gadsby created the stand-up show she named Nanette partly as a response to the public debate which took place in Australia before the law was changed to allow same-sex marriage, and also after her diagnosis of ADHD and autism, in a performance described as ground-breaking.[7] In 2018, Netflix released the film version of Nanette, which brought her to the attention of international audiences.[8][9] On Rotten Tomatoes, Nanette received an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 46 critics.[10]
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Where do the quiet gays go?
Ms. Gadsby, an Australian comedian, is the creator of “Nanette,” a stage show turned Netflix special that is lacerating in its fury about how women and queer people like her, and anyone else who might behave or look “other,” get treated, dismissed and silenced. She is unflinching about the abuse that they — that she — endured, and the cultural norms that enabled it. She calls out men, powerful and otherwise.
In stark personal terms, she reveals her own gender and sexual trauma, and doesn’t invite people to laugh at it.
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“I have built a career out of self-deprecating humor, and I don’t want to do that anymore,” she says in the special. “Because do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? It’s not humility. It’s humiliation.”
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What it’s like to be a high-functioning autistic person:
Her TED talk is hilarious, and moving:
Hannah Gadsby has secretly tied the knot.
The comedian, 43, announced that she quietly married producer Jenney Shamash in January [2021].
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Gadsby confirmed that they are “very chuffed” about being married before expressing how grateful she feels to spend the rest of her life with someone she loves.
“For the record: this is me gushing. I am full of very positive feelings,” she wrote. “This is a nice story. My heart felt [sic] thanks to everybody who voted for marriage equality.”
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On Stephen Colbert:
[NYT]: “Douglas” examines neurodiversity, portraying neurological differences, such as autism, not as “conditions” that need a cure but as human variations.
[HG}: Autism is overwhelming. So people see the distress of it. But often in a lot of those distresses we’ve been dragged out of our little thought orgies, having a great time in our heads. Nobody sees that, and I don’t see that celebrated. It is different and it is not all sad. [People think] it’s a devastating existence. And it doesn’t have to be: It’s not autism that makes it difficult to live with autism. It’s the world we’ve created that is not geared in our favor.
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Her mother, the heckler:
Ms. Gadsby came by her insecurities honestly. Growing up in small-town Tasmania, she was a blue-ribbon golfer, state champion twice over, she said. She started playing as a kid at the little country club where her mother worked as a cleaner, and where women then were not permitted to be full-fledged members, Ms. Gadsby said. They could tee off only at times that wouldn’t interfere with the men’s games. Sometimes they had to stop and serve the male members tea.
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Ms. Gadsby long ago stopped playing golf, but those experiences shaped her worldview, especially as she watched how her feisty mother was denigrated at work, “always told she’s being a mouthy, stupid woman.”
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In conclusion, one short interview from isolation at home: