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Krefting, Rebecca. 2019. Hannah Gadsby: On the Limits of Satire. Studies in American Humor 5 (1) : 93–102.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Penn State University Press

Annotation

Hannah Gadsby's broadly viewed stand-up comedy special Nanette tackles pressing social justice matters such as gender violence, sexual assault and homophobia. Along the way, she defies stand-up comedy as a masculinist cultural form and systematically exposes the restrictions of satire, speaking the truths we dare not reveal for fear of losing the funny.