Nanette? More like Manette.
The comedy world has been turned upside down today after Trent Burkwood (23) chuckled at a wisecrack made by his girlfriend of 18 months, Jess Woods (21).
Woods, upon receiving a coffee at the couple’s favourite café, looked at the top of the cup to see the spelling of her relatively straightforward name had been utterly butchered by Tasmyn, the barista who would have admittedly limited experience spelling normal names.
“Didn’t realise I’d changed my name to Jeck,” Ms Woods slyly whispered to her boyfriend. Witnesses at the scene even reported a smirk.
Mr Buckwood, upon hearing the line, reportedly made the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of derision.
The laugh seemed inconsequential at first. However, it was not until minutes later that Trent Buckwood realised he had personally solved the gender crisis that has plagued comedy for years.
His conclusion was as obvious as it was momentous: “I am but Hannah Gadsby.”
Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special Nanette has been praised for its no-holds-barred dissection of the sexism and misogyny within comedy. However, Buckwood took no pleasure it contacting Ms Gadbsy’s agency to inform the stand-up that it was in fact he, Trent Buckwood of Mt Gravatt, who had irreversibly shifted the momentum of women’s progress within the comic sphere.
“Yeah listen, I had a giggle and I reckon that pretty much solved it,” Buckwood expressed in his voicemail. “I am indeed Gadsby, initial H. I have cracked the code that has befuddled comic minds for menerations: woman are funny… thought you ought to know.”
Buckwood says that he intends to embark on a nationwide speaking tour, conducting seminars with young women to explain to them that they can be funny. “What women need to understand,” Buckwood began as his hand gestures kicked into gear, “is that chicks just need to have a go. My misso made that coffee gag and it was fucking funny.”
“If youse just try to be funny heaps more than I reckon there will be more funny women, yeah?”
Hannah Gadsby did not respond to our request for an interview. The real Hannah Gadsby, however, did, as made evident by the subject of the article above.