Hannah Gadsby's Douglas, her first new special since the comedian's wildly successful show Nanette, has a challenging job. It's not just that for most of her audience, Douglas will be what Gadsby refers to as her "difficult second album. Emmy and Peabody award winning comedian Hannah Gadsby stopped the comedy world in its tracks with her genre There are no featured audience reviews for Hannah Gadsby: Douglas at this time.

Gadsby earned rapturous reviews and a ferocious backlash pushing the boundaries of stand-up by insisting on its limits in that show. The cultural phenomenon of "Nanette" haunts her follow-up, "Douglas," now on Netflix, and in typical self-awareness, she acknowledges that specter at the start. Watch the trailer for Hannah Gadsby: Douglas here: Movie and show review.

Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

Douglas is proof that Gadsby has incredible range outside of what she became famous for in Nanette. With Douglas, Gadsby sharpens the edge of her socially aware. Hay delves into another comedy special review with Hannah Gadsby's latest special Douglas, which is available on Netflix. In order to properly review this. This is woke comedy that fetishizes victimhood. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ver the last week, woke mobs have stormed the streets and social media, demanding conformity to proper beliefs about systemic injustice.

Trailer Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

Hannah Gadsby begins her new Netflix special, Douglas, with a proclamation seldom heard in stand-up sets. In other words, Gadsby is still Gadsby, breaking down the conventions of comedy to remake it into something that she (still) wants to be a part of. Gadsby's latest stand-up presentation highlights both her unique voice as a meta commentator on the tricks of her trade, and the difficulty of catching lightning in a bottle twice.

Gadsby jokes that Douglas is the comic's equivalent of a "difficult second album" and though it's a strong enough encore, it can also be a frustrating one. If only Hannah Gadsby could take the brilliant surrealism of her sleight of hand jokes, and apply this same surprising, questioning nuance to the way. Hannah Gadsby's New Show Douglas Takes a Hammer to the Patriarchy—Again. After more than a decade on the comedy circuit, Gadsby "quit" comedy with.