Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda

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.

As with any showcase introducing a number of comedians that were largely unknown, there were hits and misses. Overall, though, I enjoyed it. As others have pointed out, there appeared to be some enhancement of the audience reaction, which seems a bit odd. Perhaps the audience was not advised that it was a recorded performance, or perhaps the venue was not a great fit - you'd expect that loyal local fans of the comics on display would make every effort to attend and be naturally enthusiastic. At any rate, that didn't really impact my reaction to the show. Since this special prompted a batch of hate-downvoting (which seems to be more and more common these days) I looked at a few of those reviewers and found that all or nearly all of their reviews were 1/10. They must be really poor at selecting what movies/specials they decide to invest their time in watching if they continually sit through performances they hate.

There was simply nothing funny about this. The comedians were essentially just speaking, and I'm not sure if I laughed even once. But I guess this is sort of the vibe of Hannah Gadsby- stand-up comedy that's so high brow and "deep" (?) that it forgets the punchline.

Netflix is clearly trying to promote this, as it's the number 2 listed stand-up as I'm writing (not in terms of views, but just what they listed). What's wild to me is it sounded like there was a very obvious laugh track included. The laughs would be very short and then abruptly stop. I'd love to see the unedited version. Expecting crickets.

I think there must be a bunch political people who are down voting it on principle because this is like any other multi-act standup shows: some great moments, some meh, but overall fun.

I don't really get to hear trans people make fun of themselves that often in the media, and a lot of the comedians did it in really funny ways. It's refreshing to hear jokes and self deprecating humour from a different walk of life.

If you like a wide range of comedy, you'll find some new comedians to love in this show. It's worth your time to make up your own mind and to challenge yourself a little bit. Take each act as their own artist.

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.