Gadsby takes aim at men who complained her award-winning show was not comedy but a lecture
I once interviewed a professor of reproductive biology who declared that women could and should take the birth control pill throughout their fertile years without pause, and that any talk of side effects was utter tosh. “I even proved it by taking one myself, live on television,” he said.
Had he popped up in Hannah Gadsby’s 11th show, Douglas, I wouldn’t have been surprised. If Nanette – Gadsby’s global hit that toured for 18 months, launched a thousand think-pieces and became a Netflix special – dealt in shame, Douglas skewers the proprietorial way that everything is named and claimed by powerful men.
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