Hannah Gadsby on Douglas and How She's Still Punching Up
Douglas, the follow-up to her game-changing comedy special Nanette. “Fair warning, my observations will be about Americans,” she joked, early in the show that she developed in 2019. “Making fun of Americans is still technically punching up, although that window is closing.”The special hit Netflix in May of this year, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic to drive people into lockdown and kick off a wave of conspiracy theories across America — and that gives Gadsby’s jokes about trauma, American overconfidence, and the recklessness of the antivaccination movement a particular sting.Looking back on it, “I’d be less playful, you know?” she tells The Advocate. “It’s really sad for me to watch what’s happening in the U.S., because being able to.
