It has been almost two years since Hannah Gadsby’s first-ever Netflix comedy special ‘Nannette’ swayed the audience with a dose of witty laughter spinning off from her fresh take on trauma and mental health. The success claimed by ‘Nannette’ was beyond the projected numbers and expectations of Gadsby herself. Her celebrity status exploded after that surprise hit. She is returning with another special ‘Douglas’ on Tuesday, 26th May, which is named after her pet dog.
Gadsby performed her global tour ‘Douglas’ starting off from Melbourne last year. She then took ‘Douglas’ to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and the final five-week run in New York. Notably, this was her tour in the States. The performances felt like an extension of ‘Nannette’, as she meticulously whips the feedback received for Nannette from straight males of being more of a ‘lecture’ than a standup show. She intelligently dismantles all the ‘hate comments’ which guise themselves as ‘critical remarks’ but are actually erupting from the anti-LGBTQ sentiments of straight men as she is lesbian queer.
The month of May 2020 has been special for Netflix stand-up specials. Jerry Seinfeld’s new special ’23 Hours to Kill’ cracked Netflix on 5th May. This was followed by Patton Oswalt’s ‘I Love Everything’ debuting on May 19. As of Gadsby’s ‘Douglas’, her cute dog only receives partial credits behind the name, as she clarifies that the female anatomical part is named Pouch of Douglas, reinstating her feminist mark against Nannette-haters. She also discloses that the anatomical part received the name after the discoverer, John Douglas, a male-midwife of the 18th century.
Enthralled about her tours, during a Netflix FYSEE event, Gadsby said, “I’m really enjoying touring with the live performance, but there will be places in the world that I won’t be able to visit, so it’s wonderful that Netflix will bring the show to every corner of the globe.”
Be ready this Tuesday to experience some scintillating comedy clubbed with specially curated clever in-betweens in ‘Douglas’.