The great Gadsby
Hannah Gadsby’s electrifying, not-so-funny stand-up special has started a cultural conversation about storytelling, identity, and what comedy even is, writes Thomas Ricard
It’s a story Hannah Gadsby has told many times before. In a halting delivery, punctuated with “uhs” and nervous grins, she recounts that time she flirted with a woman at a bus stop and was promptly shoved around by said woman’s irate boyfriend. Her voice turns into a comical drunken slur as she imitates the man’s “faggot” insults and his embarrassed apologies upon realising his target’s gender - “I’m so sorry, I don’t ...
