Comedy

Hannah Gadsby Is ‘Comfortable’ Not Being Funny in First Stand-up Set After ‘Nanette’

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The groundbreaking comedian’s new work-in-progress set is a willfully half-finished ninety minutes of performance, and almost admirably sloppy.

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In the early 1700s, a physician named James Douglas, a quasi-famous midwife known for performing public dissections of female pelvises in his home, came across a wrinkle of uterine flesh he hadn’t seen before.

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