I'm interested in modern comedy and I was just wondering if she's good, like Amy Schumer good.
More of a comment really.
2021
Hickey at the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, riffing on the pain of agapanthus.
Her 2021 show, What a surprise took out the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award.
2020
Hickey ‘stresses a bit too much about birthdays’ in her set for The Standup Sessions, which set out to ‘deliver some seriously funny socially distanced comedy, presented by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with the support of Victoria Together, and streamed direct to your locked-down lounge.’
2019
Hickey at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, talking about that time she was wet at the airport and got pulled aside for a full body search.
Her 2019 show, Things are going well, ‘only’ got a nomination for the Most Outanding Show at the 2019 Festival, but it did win the Piece of wood award, for the show deemed the best show of the festival by fellow participants in said festival.
...be raped by the devil for all of time?
Since HG is back in the news, I thought I'd share this review of "Nanette" from The Baffler, back when it was a good magazine. She explains why N doesn't work as comedy, and explains why Tig Notaro handles women's marginalization in her work much better.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/tokens-of-appreciation-roberts
I did like the bit about " art is valued merely as an act of political representation." Explains non-comedy things like Black Panther or much of Ryan Murphy's oeuvre so well.
I could've asked this on /r/askreddit but it would probably be downvoted to oblivion, but since Ben has talked about Hannah Gadsby and this sub has as many woke Leftists/Ben-haters as there are Ben fans, maybe I could get some help?
Can anyone point me to YouTube/vid clips where Hannah Gadsby does actual comedy, the kind that can make regular people left/right/non-partisans laugh?
