Hannah Gadsby delivers a warning up front to the audience for her new show, “Body of Work,” particularly those who are expecting the raw confessional tone of her breakout 2018 Netflix special “Nanette” or its follow-up “Douglas.” “It’s going to be a feel-good show,” she says, “because I feel like I owe you one.” What’s striking is that unlike in her previous two shows, the Australian comic delivers a far more conventional routine on two fronts — not only is her material less emotionally charged than in her previous shows, but it’s also delivered mostly straight, without the meta framework and exploding-the-conventions-of-comedy mindset that marked her as such a strikingly original voice. In her first performance at Brooklyn’s BAM Howard Gilman Opera House on Wednesday, Gadsby seems to acknowledge her changed circumstances — including the fact that she’s hobbling about the stage with a large castlike boot on her left leg after a bad fall in Iceland.
‘About My Father’s Sebastian Maniscalco Sends CinemaCon Home Laughing
29.04.2022 - 01:27 / deadline.com
If there’s a continuing motif among studios presentations at CinemaCon this year, it’s comedians working the exhibition crowd. Lionsgate closed out CinemaCon with Sebastian Maniscalco preforming eight minutes of stand-up to huge roars in Caesars Colosseum. He’s here to promote the movie inspired by his life, About My Father. Yesterday, Universal had Billy Eichner, Jo Koy Steve Carell.
“A little tidbit,” said Maniscalco ribbing Lionsgate distribution boss David Spitz after he introduced the studio’s session today, “He was a little nervous backstage that the teleprompter would go dark and he’d be lost up here.”
His set covered everything from his Jewish in-laws, Italians approach to food, the line and price at the casino pool, how Hamilton never changed his life, and more.
“I’m watching you milling around the casino, I gotta give it up to you, who decided that the lanyards would be this big?” taking a swipe at CinemaCon badges, “What are you keeping in there? Your tax returns?”
He mentioned how Vegas use to be a place where people get dressed up. “Looks like a slumber party out there,” says Maniscalco.
On paper straws: “Couple of turtles die in the ocean and I have to get a brain aneurysm drinking out of a straw made out of dry wall.”
On exhibitors: “I didn’t expect a lot of Jewish people went into theater ownership.”
And his wife: “Love my wife, she’s slow, she doesn’t move. She don’t move right. We went out to dinner, our car doors never open at the same time. I get out and shut the door. I look, she’s still in the car. She wears heels, they hurt, I get it….I look at the GPS, we’re five minutes away; maybe I should reassemble my feet. She don’t know how to work in heels. She gets out of the car, it’s like a thriller video.”
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