Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018)

Behind every joke there is a story

The Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby is taking an anti-comedy stance in her newest special.

Date of release
2018-06-19
TMDB
7.9 / 10 (310)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Madeleine Parry, Jon Olb

Casting

Interesting facts

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette is a live comedy performance written and performed by Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, which debuted in 2017. The work includes social commentary, punctuated by comedy and emotive narration of Gadsby's life, lessons and what their story offers to the world. In June 2018, Netflix released a video of Gadsby's performance of the work at the Sydney Opera House, directed by Madeleine Parry and John Olb. The special was well received by critics, winning a Peabody Award as well as Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special at the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Development

Gadsby created the stand-up show 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 soon after their diagnoses of ADHD and autism.

The show was originally named after a woman Gadsby had met, who they thought could be turned into an hour's worth of material. During the writing process, they realized this wasn't the case, but the name had already been chosen. They ended up ignoring this inconsistency and wrote an hour of material unrelated to Nanette.

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