But could anyone trust her? Gadsby posed the question herself with a mischievous grin.The truth is that even when the Australian comic was demonstrating her skills as an observational humorist, she was simultaneously asking audience members to be conscious of what they were finding and not finding amusing. She wanted the crowd to think about the boundaries of comedy even when enjoying a seemingly innocuous laugh.
At the start of Friday’s show, Gadsby said that “stand-up” was technically inaccurate because she had broken her leg in an accident on a patch of ice in Iceland, an incident that left her moaning on her side, doubting her will to live. Standing remains a wobbly affair for Gadsby, and a stool was required for support.
Politics were not front and center, though she did propose that, if Roe vs. Wade is overturned, Viagra should be made illegal and masturbators should be pursued by the long arm of the law, so to speak. Doctors were another target — or, more specifically, the patriarchal nature of medicine, which would have happily locked her into a peri-menopausal box for the crime of having a vagina of a certain age.
Romantic partnerships can be tricky when you perceive the world in atypical ways, but Gadsby let slip that she was a bit of a player before tying the knot. Marriage, however, agrees with her. Having someone there who can point out the “gaping” holes in her social awareness turns out to be invaluable, though miscues provide endless fodder for her act.
I’d rather walk barefoot down a hallway covered in legos.
Why does he look like Skeletor there?