About midway through Hannah Gadsby’s final performance of Nanette, at Montreal’s Just for Laughs festival on Friday, the comic recruited an audience member in the front row. Pointing to a man with his arms crossed, Gadsby asked for his name. “David,” he replied. “Of course it is,” Gadsby shot back, to a roomful of laughter. Before continuing with the bit, which required a little of poor David’s participation, Gadsby asked, “Are you ready, David? I’m asking for your consent.” David may not have been too pleased at Gadsby’s flippancy, but the sold-out crowd at L’Olympia theater, in Montreal’s “Gay Village,” howled. To be fair, they hooted and cheered through the whole evening, which had the electric charge of a political rally. It’s easy to understand why: Nanette, a stand-up special that premiered on Netflix last month and catapulted the forty-year-old Australian comedian to mainstream fame, has tapped into a mounting sense of rage and exhaustion among women and minorities. And it’s done so at the risk of alienating a demographic that has for so long been considered, as Gadsby put it, “human neutral” — that is, straight white men. It was particularly powerful to witness such an ecstatic reception for… Read full this story
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