TV Updates Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas Two years after her not-comedy special Nanette made her a household name, Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas, a stand-up special/one-woman show/glorified Ted Talk/lecture—whatever you want to call it, she really does not care. Gadsby herself compares the arc of Douglas to a romantic comedy in By Sarah • May 27, 2020 10:06 am
TV Updates Hannah Gadsby returns Hannah Gadsby’s extraordinary not-comedy special, Nanette, was one of the stand-out pop cultural moments of 2018. Now, two years after “quitting” comedy via Nanette, Gadsby returns with another one-woman show, this time titled Douglas (after her dog). Douglas ran off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater last year, and many By Sarah • Apr 14, 2020 03:27 pm
Ali Wong Netflix flexes their comedy power Netflix has done many things to the entertainment industry over the last decade, from creating a new viewing model for audiences to drive award season spending even higher in pursuit of a Best Picture Oscar. But one thing they’ve done that we don’t talk about as much is By Sarah • Mar 02, 2020 01:14 pm
TV Updates Is Colbert wasting Hannah Gadsby’s time? Hannah Gadsby had one of the biggest and best breakout moments of 2018 with her searing Netflix special, Nanette. That show, set up as a kind of two weeks’ notice to her comedy career, resulted in international acclaim, and she is now performing a new show, Douglas, off-Broadway (it will By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 11:31 am
Best and Worst of 2018 Best of 2018: Hannah Gadsby Hannah Gadsby burst onto the international stage this year with her blistering not-comedy special Nanette. It feels like Nanette came out nine years ago because we live in a nightmare time warp where everything is happening all of the time, but it’s just been six months since Gadsby gave By Sarah • Dec 14, 2018 02:58 pm
Emmy Awards 2018 Hannah Gadsby: Emmys Best Presenter As Duana just posted, over here in our corner, nobody cared for Colin Jost and Michael Che. The antidote for that took the stage about halfway through the show when Hannah Gadsby came out to present. On her own. Which became a part of her bit. But there is a By Lainey • Sep 18, 2018 01:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette: an extraordinary plea for empathy Jokes, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby tells us, are a two-part structure: set-up and punchline. And the problem with jokes, she goes on, is that they have no resolution. In her new comedy special, Nanette, Gadsby tells us how she “sealed off” her coming-out story at its “trauma point” by turning By Sarah • Jun 25, 2018 09:18 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 25, 2018 Dear Gossips, Hannah Gadsby’s name has been coming up in my feeds for a few weeks now. Then Sarah texted me this weekend, OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO WATCH NANETTE ON NETFLIX. The timing was perfect. I watched it yesterday, Pride Sunday. Last week, it was Beyoncé taking By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 08:55 am
