Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

And there is a level of creativity and, yeah, I kind of love bitchiness for bitchy's sake as opposed to just being flat out negative and angry and furious and yelling.

Um, yeah, I don't, I don't know where I, yeah, where it goes on the scale of, you know, I really do take a lot on board from what Hannah Gadsby said in their special Nanette about being drenched in shame and being the first to, you know, make fun of yourself.

Yeah.

But yeah, it's kind of on the borderline.

I mean, the whole way through I was watching this film, I kept thinking of again, like scholarly work in gender studies about kind of the rise of feminist anger, you know, in popular culture.

I'm thinking of things like Hannah Gadsby's Nanette, Jilly Kaye, again, to name her, and Bene Wiser.

So Bene Wiser have both written about this, that there's a kind of rise of a new visibility of feminist anger, right? That there are kind of furious female on-screen heroines in TV.

I'm thinking of like, Jessica Jones or Offred in Handmaid's Tale.

Mm, Hannah.

I have been wanting to speak to Hannah Gadsby for so long, ever since I laughed and cried, enraged my way through Nanette, and then after that with Douglas.

Which are her stand-up specials.

Right, her stand-up Netflix specials.

She went through really hard times.

She was unhoused.

She was in terrible situations a lot of her life and was only diagnosed when she was 30, basically, I think it was a year before Nanette came out.

And a lot about her story has to do with living without this knowledge of herself, but just living in kind of an ill-fitting world, and it is a place where a lot of girls are.

One of my favorites that I had mentioned, Bill Hicks, he's been, he passed away years ago, but in college, I think I, I don't know how many times I listened to the CDs that I had of Bill Hicks.

But in thinking about this show, especially for Liv, it reminded me of Hannah Gadsby's special Nanette.

Have you seen that? I

have.

Yes.

And Nanette is tough.

Nanette is, Hannah Gadsby was at a point in her career as a standup comedian where she was considering leaving it.

And Nanette was actually sort of meant to be her like farewell because she was talking about the importance of tension in comedy and but then she connected it to, you know, how the self deprecation type of jokes that she would make that she was sort of using her own real world trauma as the basis for her comedy, because as a member of the LGBT community, there is a fair amount of, like I said, trauma that she had gone through.