Hannah Gadsby’s All Happy Show (All the way through)

I was nervous about going to this event because so MANY people all in the same place. Noise, lights, not being able to get out easily, etc. But I love Hannah Gadsby so much. The show was a slow start, but I’ll offer a couple of her bits and then some of my own (since, unlike the tests I took, I did not sign a note promising not to talk about anything that happened there, though I DID have to leave my phone and smart watch locked up).

Hannah Gadsby is married. She offers this in the beginning of the show, while you’re still trying to figure that out (and also why there are two light-up ducks at the front of the stage). She has married Jenny/Jenno (an American) who has also been the producer of her shows since she was doing Nanette before Netflix.

She offers this one very clear piece of advice: Prepare to be famous. You have to prepare, even though it is impossible to prepare.

Then she tells a series of anecdotes about famous people she met. Jodie Foster. And Richard Curtis. There’s a funny bit about Jodie Fodster giving her a birthday present of “Bananagrams,” which, when she received, she blurts out, “I already have Bananagrams,” which she knows, of course, after the fact is the wrong thing to say, but for autists like me, it is absolutely the kind of thing we say and why you shouldn’t give us birthday presents or any other kind of…