Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Hannah Gadsby transforms stand-up into a volatile, self-aware reckoning with comedy, trauma, gender, and queer identity.
Overview
A groundbreaking stand-up performance that challenges conventions and speaks truth to power.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- witty
- sardonic
- confrontational
- thought-provoking viewing
- social justice discussions
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the special as an exceptionally powerful and formally inventive expansion of stand-up, while a minority object to its rejection of conventional comedy and find it uneven or overly polemical.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Gadsby explains how punchlines, autobiographical framing, and comedic conventions shape the audience's understanding of personal experience.
Personal revelations about gender, sexuality, childhood turmoil, and abuse interrupt and deepen the stand-up format.
The performance examines how stories about gender, sexuality, and power are constructed, repeated, and socially enforced.
The special is built around Gadsby's solo stage presence rather than elaborate sets, action, or location changes.
Films like Hannah Gadsby: Nanette, and why
Jerrod Carmichael: 8
shares confrontational stand-up, autobiographical disclosure, and a shift from comedy toward serious social critique
Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted
shares intimate personal storytelling, queer identity themes, and emotionally exposed comedic performance
Bo Burnham: Make Happy
shares formally inventive stand-up, dark humor, and philosophical examination of comedy itself
Movie Details
- Directors
- Madeleine Parry, Jon Olb
- Release Date
- 2018-06-19
- Runtime
- 69 min
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 (308)
Cast
- Hannah Gadsby
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Hannah Gadsby: Nanette about?
- Hannah Gadsby transforms stand-up into a volatile, self-aware reckoning with comedy, trauma, gender, and queer identity.
- What is Hannah Gadsby: Nanette like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Hannah Gadsby: Nanette as measured, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Hannah Gadsby: Nanette violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Hannah Gadsby: Nanette.
- What did critics think of Hannah Gadsby: Nanette?
- Critics broadly regard the special as an exceptionally powerful and formally inventive expansion of stand-up, while a minority object to its rejection of conventional comedy and find it uneven or overly polemical.
- Which films are like Hannah Gadsby: Nanette?
- Films with a similar feel include Jerrod Carmichael: 8, Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted, and Bo Burnham: Make Happy.
- How long is Hannah Gadsby: Nanette?
- Hannah Gadsby: Nanette runs 69 minutes.
- Where can I watch Hannah Gadsby: Nanette?
- In United States, Hannah Gadsby: Nanette streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
