How do you follow a landmark comedy show? Hannah Gadsby's first outing after the global hit Nanette was Douglas, about their autism. Then Body of Work, which was more akin to back-to-basics stand-up. And now here's Woof!, which strikes a balance, blending weighty personal themes with laugh-out-loud playfulness.
The main motif here, according to the Tasmania-born comic, is the idea that they might be losing their mind. But there are so many tangental avenues – from whales to Taylor Swift to abortion rights to grief to sleep apnoea to gender to social media to celebrity – that I wondered if these disparate threads could ever be tied together.
