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Hannah Gadsby at the Palladium review: A comedian at the top of her game

Hannah Gadsby

(Picture: Ben King)

Hannah Gadsby’s 2017 show Nanette propelled the Tasmanian stand-up into the upper echelons of both the comedy world and the LGBT+ community’s power lists. Her sequel, Douglas, consolidated her new status. Her latest show, Body of Work, confirms that for Gadsby great things come in threes.

As she explains at the outset, this is not as hard-hitting as her groundbreaking work. In fact, despite what is going on in the world right now, it is positively “feelgood”. Apart from a few stumbles, and more of that shortly, Gadsby has been a happy bunny recently and is keen to tell her audience all about it.

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