Hannah Gadsby: Nanette Page #6

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I trip on the first hurdle.

Pablo Picasso. I hate him,

but you're not allowed to.

I hate him. But you can't. Cubism.

And if you ruin... cubism,

then civilization as

we know it will crumble.

Cubism. Aren't we

grateful... in this room...

that we live in a post-cubism world?

Isn't that the first thing we all write

in our gratitude

journals? "Oh, thank god."

I don't like Picasso.

I f***ing hate him.

I really... I just... He's

rotten in the face cavity.

I hate Picasso! I hate him!

And you can't make me like...

But you get it a lot: "Oh, cubism... "

And I know I should be

more generous about him too

because he suffered a mental illness.

But you see, nobody knows that.

Because it doesn't

fit with his mythology.

They go, "I think you're

thinking of Van Gogh."

No, I'm thinking about

them all, actually...

Because Picasso, he's sold to us

as this passionate, virile, tormented

genius, man, ball sack, right?

There's no room in that

story for... is there?

- No.

- No. It's rhetorical, but...

There's a...

But he did suffer a mental

illness. Picasso did.

He suffered badly and it

got worse as he got older.

Picasso suffered... the

mental illness of misogyny.

Split the room.

Didn't I? And I bet you

I know how that felt.

Is misogyny a mental illness?

Yeah.

Yeah, it is! Especially if

you're a heterosexual man.

Because if you hate what you

desire, do you know what that is?

F***ing tense!

Sort your sh*t out. Yeah, he

did suffer from a mental illness.

Smarter men than I have proved

he didn't suffer a mental

illness, but they're...

No, they're wrong.

They'd say he's not a

misogynist. They're wrong. He was.

If you don't believe me,

let me provide you a quote

from Picky A**hole himself.

He said, "Each time... I leave

a woman, I should burn her.

Destroy the woman, you destroy

the past she represents."

Cool guy.

The greatest artist of

the twentieth century.

Let's make art great again, guys.

Picasso f***ed an underage girl.

And that's it for me. Not interested.

"But cubism...

We need it."

Marie-Thrse Walter. She

was 17 when they met. Underage.

Legally underage. Picasso was 42,

married, at the height of his career.

Does it matter? Yeah.

Yeah, it actually does.

It does matter.

But as Picasso said, no, it was perfect.

I was in my prime, she was in her prime.

I probably read that when I was

17. Do you know how grim that was?

Oh, I'm in my prime!

Oh, there is no view at my peak.

But I wasn't upset at the time,

because I was learning about cubism!

Now, I should qualify this, though.

Cubism is important.

You know, it really is.

It was a real game-changer.

Picasso freed us from

slavery, people. He really did.

He freed us from the slavery

of having to reproduce

believable three-dimensional

reality on a two-dimensional surface.

Three-point perspective,

that illusion that gives us

the idea of a single stable

world view, a single perspective?

Picasso said, "No!

Run free! You can have all

perspectives. That's what we need.

From above, from below,

inside out, the sides.

All the perspectives at once!"

Thank you, Picasso.

What a guy.

What a hero. Thank you. But tell me,

any of those perspectives a woman's?

No. Well, I'm not f***ing interested.

You just put a kaleidoscope

filter on your cock.

You're still painting flesh

vases for your dick flowers.

Separate the man from the art.

That's what I keep hearing.

You've got to learn to

separate the man from the art.

The art is important, not the artist.

You've got to learn to

separate the man from the art.

Yeah, all right. Okay.

Let's give it a go.

How about you take Picasso's

name off his little paintings

and see how much his

doodles are worth at auction?

F***ing nothing! Nobody

owns a circular Lego nude,

they own a Picasso!

Sorry.

You won't hear too many extended sets

about art history in

a comedy show, so...

you're welcome.

And it's bold, I know.

Comedy is more used to throwaway

jokes about priests being pedophiles

and Trump grabbing the p*ssy.

I don't have time for that sh*t.

I don't.

Do you know who used to

be an easy punch line?

Monica Lewinsky.

Maybe, if comedians had

done their job properly,

and made fun of the man

who abused his power,

then perhaps we might have

had a middle-aged woman

with an appropriate amount of

experience in the White House,

instead of, as we do, a

man who openly admitted

to sexually assaulting vulnerable

young women because he could.

Do you know what should be the

target of our jokes at the moment?

Our obsession with reputation.

We're obsessed. We think reputation

is more important than anything else,

including humanity.

And do you know who takes the

mantle of this myopic adulation

of reputation?

Celebrities. And

comedians are not immune.

They're all cut from the same cloth.

Donald Trump, Pablo Picasso,

Harvey Weinstein,

Bill Cosby, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski.

These men are not

exceptions, they are the rule.

And they are not individuals,

they are our stories.

And the moral of our story

is, "We don't give a sh*t.

We don't give a f***...

about women or children.

We only care about a man's reputation."

What about his humanity?

These men control our stories!

And yet they have a diminishing

connection to their own humanity,

and we don't seem to mind

so long as they get to hold

onto their precious reputation.

F*** reputation. Hindsight is a gift.

Stop wasting my time!

If you...

Look, I am angry.

I apologize.

I do, I apologize. I know...

I know there's a few people in

the room going, "Now, look...

I think... she's lost

control of the tension."

That's correct. I

went on it a bit there.

So, I'm not very experienced

in controlling anger.

It's not my place to be

angry on a comedy stage.

I'm meant to be doing...

self-deprecating humor.

People feel safer when

men do the angry comedy.

They're the kings of the genre.

When I do it, I'm a miserable lesbian,

ruining all the fun and the banter.

When men do it, heroes of free speech.

I love... angry white man comedy.

It's so funny, it's hilarious.

They're adorable. Why are they angry?

What's up, little fella?

What are they angry about?

Gosh, can't work it out.

They're like the canaries

in the mine, aren't they?

If they're having a tough time...

the rest of us are goners.

Do you remember that storyabout

that young man who almost beat me up?

It was a very funny story.

It was very funny, I made a lot of

people laugh about his ignorance,

and the reason I could do that is

because I'm very good at this job.

I actually am pretty good

at controlling the tension.

And I know how to balance that to

get the laugh at the right place.

But in order to balance the

tension in the room with that story,

I couldn't tell that story

as it actually happened.

Because I couldn't tell

the part of the story

where that man realized his mistake.

And he came back.

And he said, "Oh, no, I get it.

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