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Hannah Gadsby Won’t Give You Closure
The comedian’s new show, Woof!, offers a kaleidoscopic tour of their current state of mind but no pat takeaways.
The jokes are a little meandering, a little topical, with serviceable but unsurprising material on abortion policy in the United States, Gadsby’s takeaways from the Barbie movie (less about feminism than about plastic), and some left-field musing about whales. There’s plenty of the notable Gadsbian flare for jokes that circle back on themselves and call forward to later parts of the show, but without the edge of a lit fuse slowly burning that characterizes the opening of Nanette or the Tristram Shandy –esque metastructure of Douglas. has revelations buried inside it that wait until the performance is well underway before popping up on the radar, acting like icebergs of theme and preoccupation that lurk under the surface until suddenly they’re right in front of you.
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