The Dangers of Self-Deprecation; & A Deep-Dive Into ‘Nanette’
The High Low
The High Low
4.8 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
It’s the week that England broke their penalty curse; Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne broke up; Roman Polanski (yup, he who is wanted for statutory rape) sat FROW at Miu Miu; and let’s not forget! There’s a bumper session of Ask The High Low. We resisted doing it in Joan and Jericha’s voices - but it was hard.
We’ve never had something recommended so much to The High Low - via email; Twitter; Instagram DM - as much as we had ‘Nanette’ a stand-up show performed by Australian comic, Hannah Gadsby. A surprise Netflix hit, loved by everyone from Roxane Gay to Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby has produced a piece of comedy so hilarious, so original, so shocking and so devastating - it’ll have you thinking about it, like we are, for weeks to come. We talk about why this show has everyone talking and discuss why self-deprecation is so dangerous for women; why punchlines don’t tell true stories; and why artists (even Van Gogh) are not mad geniuses - but just humans, who need connections. Hannah says that ‘Nanette’ is her last piece of stand-up - and that she wants to quit comedy, so that she doesn’t spread her anger. We hope she doesn’t quit comedy: we hope she changes the genre forever.
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Links:
Nanette by Hannah Gadsby on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611?trackId=14277281&tctx=0%2C0%2C4c07843d-89e8-403a-a3c7-b1d861a56f0d-39237366%2C%2C
Nanette Is Not Just A Queer Woman's Story - It's A Revolution by Zoe Beaty: https://www.the-pool.com/arts-culture/tv/2018/26/zoe-beaty-on-hannah-gadsby-nanette-on-netflix
Why I’m Done With The Mental Health Conversation, by Hannah Jane Parkinson for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/30/nothing-like-broken-leg-mental-health-conversation
Caitlin Moran interviewed by Alastair Campbell for the August 2018 issue of GQ magazine - on sale now
Adam Kay interviewed by Emma Gannon for Ctrl Alt Delete podcast https://www.emmagannon.co.uk/2018/06/22/ctrl-alt-delete-podcast-135-adam-kay/
Zadie Smith on The Touré Show: https://art19.com/shows/toure-show/episodes/e6dbe4c7-c2ad-4342-b120-bd666ab2eef6
Geography by Tom Misch https://www.amazon.co.uk/Geography-Tom-Misch/dp/B0774WX37X
The Durrels on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80989475
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 62 of The Highloh, the weekly news and pop culture podcast brought to |
| 0:20.9 | you by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:25.1 | And well done England. |
| 0:27.2 | I was shouts from every single house on my street on a game. |
| 0:32.0 | What a penalty curse was broken. |
| 0:34.0 | I think it was a game of two halves. |
| 0:36.2 | You're being a dick about this and actually I have adopted your whole, when does the football |
| 0:41.5 | competition finish? |
| 0:42.5 | No actually, do you know what last night I saw your treat name. |
| 0:45.0 | It was amazing. |
| 0:46.0 | I agree with you. |
| 0:47.0 | I was sitting on my sofa and what was quite weird is my neighbours underneath me were cheering |
| 0:52.4 | for Columbia and everyone outside was cheering for England so I had this weird sort of |
| 0:57.0 | cacophonous, you know, sonic war. |
| 1:00.6 | But it was an amazing moment of feeling united when I would hear those cheers and it was |
| 1:04.9 | like sonorous, it went across all of Canada and I heard it kind of bellow through my |
| 1:08.0 | windows. |
| 1:09.0 | It was really wonderful. |
| 1:10.0 | But I think it went across everywhere because so many people replied from like all |
| 1:13.8 | different bits of England saying I can hear it and I'm here. |
| 1:16.2 | It's very unifying. |
| 1:17.2 | I thought it was magical actually joking aside, I found it quite moving. |
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