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How ‘Nanette’ made it to Netflix

sudshr47 July 30, 2018

Netflix, as a platform, is as good at breaking things as it is at building them.

Early on, their DVD subscription service broke Blockbuster and built a base of customers for what would become the world’s biggest streaming platform. Then they broke the traditional movie and television release cycle and reshaped the viewing habits of an entire generation.

Now, with the wild success of Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, Netflix has broken the rules of stand-up comedyNanette is such a major departure from the conventions of comedy specials that to see its thumbnail — innocently hovering next to Ali Wong and Dave Chappelle — feels off. Gadsby’s performance is radical; Netflix bringing it to our living rooms is practically revolutionary. So how did it happen? Who thought to bring this raw, subversive work to Netflix’s growing comedy lineup? Read more…

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Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Nanette’ takes aim at straight white men and comedy clichés

sudshr47 July 17, 2018

This is the first time we’ve done an in-depth review of a comedy special on the Original Content podcast, but Nanette (which Netflix released last month) isn’t a typical stand-up show. Hannah Gadsby starts off with some light, funny jokes about growing up as a lesbian in Tasmania, where being homosexual was illegal until 1997. […]

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A new Netflix special calls out standup comedy’s most pervasive bad habit

sudshr47 June 29, 2018

Nanette seems more like the name of an elderly Shih Tzu than a groundbreaking comedy special. But Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix hour is indeed called Nanette — and it is a radical tour de force that calls out some of standup comedy’s worst shortcomings.

Stand-up has always been a dog-eat-dog world. From set stealers to hecklers, the obstacles facing the most privileged of comedians is substantial, and the underrepresented have it even worse.

Gadsby’s hour is a profound breakdown of the disadvantages she has faced as a gay woman—not just in comedy, but in life. During the course of her special, she concludes that for her own well-being, she ought to quit comedy. At the center of her argument is a fundamental flaw in the “rules” of self-deprecation. Read more…

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