Hannah Gadsby has been a comedian for almost two decades but it was 2018 when the world took notice. Their ground breaking special launched on Netflix and stopped the comedy world in its tracks.
Nanette earned Hannah an Emmy, a Peabody, an Australian Academy Award, and the Most Outstanding Show awards at both the Melbourne Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. Since then, Hannah did two more solo stand-up comedy shows which toured the world – selling out houses across the USA, Australia and Europe, including the Sydney Opera House, the Royal Festival Hall, the Kennedy Centre, the London Palladium and the Opera House at BAM.
Hannah’s second and third Netflix special, Douglas and Something Special landed on Netflix. Douglas was nominated for an Emmy and won an Australian Academy Award as did Something Special.
They also managed to publish their New York Times Best Selling memoir, Ten Steps To Nanette in more than ten languages, chatted with the likes of Colbert and Fallon and hosted a gala at the Montreal Just For Laughs comedy festival.
The laughs of her show are a means to an end, which is, at its core, a ferocious attack on comedy itself