{"id":145825,"date":"2020-05-27T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/27\/hannah-gadsby-douglas-review-crusading-comedy-with-great-gags\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:44:34","slug":"hannah-gadsby-douglas-review-crusading-comedy-with-great-gags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=145825","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Gadsby: Douglas review \u2013 crusading comedy with great gags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Available on NetflixGadsby follows up her hit show Nanette with a swaggering set that blazes with well-earned confidenceHottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance onlineThe last time Hannah Gadsby released a Netflix special, it&nbsp;changed her life&nbsp;\u2013 and arguably, changed comedy. In&nbsp;Nanette, she publicly quit standup, the practice of which \u2013 she argued \u2013 made her complicit in her own (homophobic, mainly) oppression. It was a fierce provocation, delivered with expert control of increasingly serious tone, and it introduced a new lens through which to consider self-mocking comedy. Far from ending Gadsby\u2019s career, it gave that career a spectacular new lease of life.Douglas begins that new life. As I wrote on&nbsp;seeing it live last autumn, it\u2019s a more approachable set than its predecessor. Gadsby is obviously having fun \u2013 which isn\u2019t something you could say about Nanette \u2013&nbsp;but it\u2019s in no way a climbdown. The show (her 1oth \u2013 but also her \u201cdifficult second album\u201d, she admits) is perfectly judged, a 75-minute set that proves self-deprecation is a thing of the past for Gadsby, that blazes with well-earned confidence, and that hitches her crusading, patriarchy-bashing humour to great jokes, meticulous set-building \u2013 and a new cause. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/may\/27\/hannah-gadsby-douglas-review-netflix\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Gadsby: Douglas review \u2013 crusading comedy with great gags<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available on NetflixGadsby follows up her hit show Nanette with a swaggering set that blazes with well-earned confidenceHottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance onlineThe last time Hannah Gadsby released a Netflix special, it&nbsp;changed her life&nbsp;\u2013 and arguably, changed comedy. In&nbsp;Nanette, she publicly quit standup, the practice of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}