Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda

Honestly, i'm not surprised. I've been a fan of Hannah Gadsby's for quite a number of years, so her assembling a cast that she as a master of her craft thinks is worth giving a go... yeah, definitely worth my time.

Each comedian has about 10 minutes. Deliver that first joke/theme, expand on it, a couple of twists and sly asides, and then put a bow on it.

Each has distinctive style and much like going to any of my local comedy clubs, that is part of the joy. Is every performer and every joke going to land for me? No. But this show hit well through its tight 75 minutes.

For me the highlights, in addition to Gadsby, were DeAnne Smith, Chloe Petts, and Dahlia Belle.

A handful of unknown, completely and totally unfunny miscreants talking for 90 minutes.

I say "talking" because they aren't telling jokes. They are just jammering. I swear Netflix must have stacked the audience with these clowns' friends and even then included a Laugh and Applause blinking light.

Or maybe they just added the sound effects because it's seriously very hard to imagine any normal person laughing at these non-jokes or finding any of it even remotely humorous.

This has to be the worst stand up "special" I have ever seen in my entire life. I was totally bored and horrified that someone actually put money behind this.

I enjoyed it, laughed out loud and really enjoyed seeing Hannah relaxed and in her/ his/ their element. She sounded like she might have been sick and getting worse through the evening but she hung in like a trooper. It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I'm an ally and some of the jokes went over my head but it was really fun. It think it's great to showcase all kinds of talent, pribsbly better than during down ones you don't agree with, especially in comedy which purposefully pushes boundaries. I think Dave Chappelle is interesting and insightful, even if I don't always agree with him. And I'd rather the lgbtq+ community also have a platform too.

I get it. We are in a progressive and (mostly) tolerant society. And I am happy that people are starting to feel more empowered and confident in who and what they choose to be.

However, that doesn't mean we should give Netflix a pass for pushing the most braindead, thoughtless, uninsightful and just downright awful "comedy" as a way to score themselves some of those precious, sweet, social brownie points.

This, much like everything else Hannah touches, is a putrid dumpster fire that didn't make me laugh, or even cause a slight smirk throughout the entire thing.

It's painful to watch when you know that the only thing these "comedians" have to offer is uninteresting and pretty obvious points of view surrounding LGBT and the society they exist in. I think the fact that these people make their sexual identity their ENTIRE personality should not qualify them for a comedy show. It's the most boring, self indulgent thing I've ever seen. And I've seen A LOT of bad comedy.

In essence, it's a vapid and shallow special where comedian after comedian just wants to pat themselves on the back for being so progressive and "leading the way".

Pandering at it's finest, and of course Netflix are the ones to push it.

Please don't take this as an assult on the LGBT community. It's not bigoted for me to tell you that these people are terrible at comedy and have no place being on our screens.

This comedy special consists of 8 stand-up routines from a diverse array of LGBTQ+ performers, from both the UK and the US. Most of them were excellent, though a couple fell a bit short with their material. But even those ones had strong deliveries that bode well for their future performances.

With 8 performers with a related background and a unifying theme I would have expected there would be more overlap in their content, but each one was surprisingly fresh. There's quite a bit of range in their approach to gender, with some laughing an their own personal experiences while others deftly made a mockery of social media and political attacks against the community.

I'm definitely looking forward to more content from these comedians.