John Mulaney is one of the best stand-up comedians working today. Although probably not today as it’s a holiday, but you get it. And even if you don’t get it, and need all the qualifiers, Mulaney definitely probably is the best cis heterosexual privileged white male in the stand-up trade in 2018. His most recent […]
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The simplicity of the Australian standup’s Netflix special gives us space to laugh and cry, and inspires us to tell our own stories
Nanette was billed as Hannah Gadsby’s departure from comedy. Instead, it has become the work that cemented the Australian’s career.
A deconstruction of the form, the show won the major comedy awards in Adelaide, Melbourne and Edinburgh, before she took it to the US where the New York Times dubbed Gadsby “a major new voice in comedy”. Now it’s a globally praised Netflix special, and Gadsby is a comedy star.
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Holy shit #Nanette is extraordinary. Blown away by @Hannahgadsby @netflix
An excellent pride activity: watch @Hannahgadsby’s absolutely stunning special “Nanette” on @netflix. Completely blew me away.
Please allow me to be the 1000th person to tell you to watch Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette”
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#Nanette also changed my life. I felt like finally someone was speaking to my lived experience in front of the whole Sydney Opera House and the words can never be taken back. @HannahGadsby truly freed us all. https://t.co/9vUTWJDxta
Standup needs to be big enough to grow and warp and change in the deft hands of an artist like Gadsby
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Comedians had a fine time last week chewing on and chewing out a feature in The Hollywood Reporter purporting to take a snapshot of the “L.A. Comedy Gold Rush” happening right now. It’s easy from my perch to see how this all went askew. First, the headline. Any problematic news report usually has a misleading […]
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Ellen DeGeneres, the reigning queen of daytime TV, is finally ready to record her first stand-up comedy special in 15 years. DeGeneres will hit the road for a limited West Coast tour in August, with three dates each in San Diego and San Francisco before taping her performances in Seattle for Netflix. Although DeGeneres tapes […]
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The night before I meet Marc Maron, I go to his standup show in London. These days Maron is best known for his hugely popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, which he started in 2009, and on which he has interviewed everyone from Barack Obama to Keith Richards and Chris Rock. He conducts most of the interviews from his garage in LA, and they are almost always revealing and always entertaining. In 2010, Robin Williams talked about his depression and addictions, four years before he killed himself. Obama talked about the racism and African American stereotypes that shaped his sense of self. WTF now gets 7m downloads a month.
But in the 90s, when I first discovered him, Maron was not known for his empathetic dialogues; rather, he was seen as an aggressive monologuer. Back then, he was a struggling standup, with a style that was often described as angry and arrogant – or, as his friend Louis CK once put it, “a huge amount of insecurity and craziness”. He was known as a comedian’s comedian, which is a nice way of saying the industry liked him, but audiences didn’t.
Some of my behaviour was not great. It was emotionally abusive
The food stuff is my deepest issue, more than the drugs. I guess it’s about self-loathing and control
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