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Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

That your life was going to be so hard.I knew that, and I wanted it more than anythingin...

that your life was going to be so hard.
I knew that, and I wanted it more than anything
in the world not to be the case

Full Transcript

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that your life was going to be so hard. I knew that,
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and I wanted it more than anything in the world not to be the case.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:39:08
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary, comedy
Production
Guesswork Television

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Movie Summary

Australian comic Hannah Gadsby reshapes standard stand-up by pairing punchlines with personal revelations on gender, sexuality and childhood turmoil.
And I know I made it worse, - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:13
And I know I made it worse,
How did my mum - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:06
How did my mum
See... I think part of my problem - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:08
See... I think part of my problem
The way I've been telling that story - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
The way I've been telling that story
And stories... unlike jokes, need three parts. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
And stories... unlike jokes, need three parts.
And what I had done, with that comedy show about coming out, - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:13
And what I had done, with that comedy show about coming out,
And that story became a routine, and through repetition, - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:09
And that story became a routine, and through repetition,
But unfortunately that joke version was not nearly sophisticated enough - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:09
But unfortunately that joke version was not nearly sophistic...
Punch lines need trauma - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:06
Punch lines need trauma
Need tension, and tension feeds trauma. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:04
Need tension, and tension feeds trauma.
I didn't come out to my grandma last year because I'm still ashamed of who I am. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
I didn't come out to my grandma last year because I...
But, right there, - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
But, right there,
You learn from the part of the story you focus on. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
You learn from the part of the story you focus on.
Because the closet, for me, was no easy thing... to come out of. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
Because the closet, for me, was no easy thing... to come out...
From the years 1989 to 1997, right? - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
From the years 1989 to 1997, right?
Tasmania was at the center of a very toxic national debate - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:08
Tasmania was at the center of a very toxic national debate
And I'm from the northwest coast of Tasmania, the Bible Belt. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:04
And I'm from the northwest coast of Tasmania, the Bible...
Seventy percent of the people... I lived amongst... - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:05
Seventy percent of the people... I lived amongst...
Believe that homosexuality should be... a criminal act. - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:06
Believe that homosexuality should be... a criminal act.
Seventy percent of the people who raised me, who loved me, who I trusted, - Hannah Gadsby: Nanette 00:13
Seventy percent of the people who raised me, who loved me, w...