Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 334th episode of Awards Chatter,

The Hollywood Reporters Awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg,

and my guest today is an Australian comedy writer

and performer who shot to international fame

on June 19, 2018 with the worldwide debut of her Netflix special

Nannette, which paired punchlines with personal revelations to tell the story of, quote,

a broken woman who has rebuilt herself close

quote. Times said it quote kick-started a global conversation close quote and the

New York Times called it quote an international sensation the most close quote and the

an international sensation the most talked about written about shared

about comedy act in years close quote indeed everyone it seemed had an opinion about Nenette and its creator.

Fans included the actress writer Emma Thompson, who said,

quote, I've never come across any single artist who's changed my perspective on the world more."

Detractors meanwhile objected to classifying it as stand-up comedy at all,

describing it instead as a lecture, a TED Talk, or a one-woman show.

Whatever you want to call it, it was recognized with a Peabody Award and its creator won a

primetime Emmy for Best Writing for a Variety Special. Now, not even two years later, she is back with another

Netflix special, Douglas, which is very different but also sure to get people talking. I'm talking of course about

Hannah Gatsby. Over the course of our conversation the 42-year-old and I discussed her

hard road to comedy and to self-discovery, her recent autism diagnosis and how the neurological

disorder affects her life and work, how she confronted the sudden attention that came with Nenet and the daunting task of following it,

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