The Great Gadsby – New Recreation

on Netflix, Nanette is the most talked-about stand-up show , if you want to call it, from the #MeToo era – from a New York Times profile to an overflowing love on social networks. But the groundbreaking show by Tasmanian artist Hannah Gadsby is an exercise in incongruity, and not just because it's categorized as a comedy when, in fact, there is little to laugh: it's out of step with the blissful insensitivity of humanity. 19659004] Nanette is an awkwardly pigeon-perched protest art as a stand-up comedy, just as Gadsby is labeled a lesbian when she can be "a bit trans" (sic) – a series of dry, dark skewers and minutely timed labels and rules written by the right white men and the normal kind.

Gadsby's disillusionment with comedy is a complaint against his inability to be cathartic. A story, she says, has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Comedy is only a beginning and a middle. The Tasmanian comedian, however, has finished with stories that tell of his trauma. Instead, she delivers the same story once as a gag and later as the story of the horrific assault that takes place where the gag ends. Because she knows that her story, like millions of stories, has to be told, and the genre of comedy is too limited for this story.

At a time when dialogue about violence and shame evaporates from long-lasting silences, Gadsby puts his battered soul in the sight of all, forcing us to look at the ugly viscera of his jokes and having shame. It's also a moment of "Me Too" for anyone who needs to tell their story of trauma and shame, and to know that they are not alone.

Tense and sensitive, Nanette does not seem to be standing up before. He deconstructs the distorted concept of black humor for what it is: the privilege of heterosexual men to ask you to "enlighten" and take ugly jokes for humor. This is a show not to be missed, not only because it's an important political statement, but because it's the most human art work on the small screen right now. One does not have to agree with Gadsby to appreciate his art. It appeals to the human in us, and all those who feel the pain will find something that resonates.