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Andi and Lise had their minds completely blown by \u201cNanette,\u201d the comedy show/performance piece by Tasmanian comedienne Hannah Gadsby, currently available on Netflix. In this brilliant and searing examination of comedy and who it serves, \u201cArt, [Gadsby] makes clear\u2014from painting to comedy\u2014does not liberate everyone equally. It can replicate the same privileges and exclusions as the culture in which it was made,\u201d Moira Donegan says in her piece on \u201cNanette\u201d in the New Yorker.

\u201cNanette\u201d is a blistering tour de force in which Gadsby lays part of her soul bare and then leaves the audience to grapple with its role in perpetuating the marginalization of those it demands entertain us.

And in the wake of the 2016 election and the #MeToo movement, Gadsby\u2019s indictment of homophobia and misogyny and her dissection of comedy has become a phenomenon and a statement. \u201cI really was writing as though I was throwing a grenade,\u201d Gadsby told Rolling Stone, \u201cand I fully expected for the show to seal me off in the margins. I am so shocked and overwhelmingly stunned. It\u2019s become bigger than me. And I\u2019m happy for that.\u201d

Both Andi and Lise are of the opinion that this is the first major piece of art\u2014a blistering fusion of comedy and storytelling\u2014to emerge since the 2016 elections and will probably come to define this era in ways we don\u2019t yet even know.

Hannah Gadsby\u2019s \u201cNanette\u201d on Netflix (US; check your local Netflix site if you\u2019re not in the US).

Gadsby\u2019s just released memoir, Ten Steps to Nanette is available at various booksellers. Check your faves.

Rolling Stone interview with Gadsby

Moira Donegan at the New Yorker on \u201cNanette\u201d

The WIRED crew on \u201cNanette\u201d

Sophie Gilbert at The Atlantic on \u201cNanette\u201d as a radical, transformative work of comedy