Hannah Gadsby begins her new Netflix special, Douglas, with a proclamation seldom heard in stand-up sets. It isn't as radical as her vow to "quit comedy" in Nanette, the Australian comic's Emmy- and Peabody-winning 2018 meta-comedy special that deconstructed joke structures to explain how humor can prop up power imbalances.
Nonetheless, it jars when Gadsby rattles off a kind of table of contents for the next 70 or so minutes. On the agenda are observational humor, some "needling of the patriarchy," a dog-park story, a discussion of her relatively recent autism diagnosis and "one Louis C.K.
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