Hannah Gadsby returns to Netflix with a hilarious crowd-pleaser
, with a proclamation seldom heard in standup sets. It isn't as radical as her vow to "quit comedy" in, the Australian comic's Emmy- and Peabody-winning 2018 meta-comedy special that deconstructed joke structures to explain how humor can prop up power imbalances. Nonetheless, it jars when Gadsby rattles off a kind of table of contents for the next 70 or so minutes.
In other words, Gadsby is still Gadsby, breaking down the conventions of comedy to remake it into something that she wants to be a part of. But with the cultural phenomenon offinds the hyper-self-conscious comedian in a defensive mode. Midway through, Gadsby explicitly addresses the critics who dismissed the earlier special as "not comedy," but the entirety ofwasn't some cover-up of a lack of great jokes.
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