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Critics Consensus: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette brilliantly moves modern comedy into nakedly honest new territory, pivoting from dry humor to raw, powerful storytelling.
Critic Consensus: Hannah Gadsby: Nanette brilliantly moves modern comedy into nakedly honest new territory, pivoting from dry humor to raw, powerful storytelling.
All Critics (42) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (0)
When Gadsby wrenches out her pain on stage, she reveals her strength, rage, and yes, winning humor.
I am also exactly who this special is for. For Gadsby's fury is directed at people like me with laser-like acumen, humor and sobering grace.
You can believe this was a show that existed only in this moment and you feel elevated from being a part of it.
Gadsby explains how comedy works, how tension is broken to bring relief. By the end, there is no relief for the audience. But perhaps there is some for Gadsby. After years of telling jokes, she is finally telling her story.
When you take the anti-irony train all the way to the end of the line, one place you can end up is Nanette.
The laughs of her show are a means to an end, which is, at its core, a ferocious attack on comedy itself.
What follows is a tour de force of comedy as in-your-face truth-telling. And it moves well beyond the unwritten rules of the laugh-a-minute, observational and adolescent-inflected stand-up that has long dominated the form.
Gadsby is tired of censoring her own pain for the sake of making audiences feel comfortable. Nanette is a testament to this. It's time to make audiences feel uncomfortable in order to wake them up.
It becomes so much more than stand-up... Very sophisticated, and something that I wasn't expecting.
Gadsby turns comedy on its head.
It's not a repudiation of history, but it is a reminder that history is over and that the strategies that served us well at one time may not be appropriate today.
Righteously angry, she shows us the real woman behind the amused persona we first met.
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