5 Top Tips To Be a Decent Human from Hannah Gadsby’s ‘Ten Steps to Nanette’
Selected gems from her ‘Memoir Situation’
From Gadsby’s detailed narration of heartwrenching, awkward moments to the wry commentary on Tasmanian politics, Ten Steps to Nanette, A Memoir Situation delivers.
Here are a few pearls I picked on being straight-up (decent/honest in Australian).
1. No matter what happens, be you.
Gadsby may lack the capacity to fake it. Add the way her brain works to a healthy dose of the Australian aversion to being up yourself. Even if it’s not entirely optional for her, it still matters. Maintaining your own particular ‘youness’ through the bad times and the good is a consistent theme in the book.
Her voice is well-established not only by virtue of years of crafting clever lines about her experiences but because she remains true to her character. The willingness to share her discomfort at being thrust into Hollywood parties — and, for example, not being impressed by Jennifer Anniston’s A-lister behavior — is right there, alongside desperate pre-comedy struggles. There is no sense of shape-shifting to fit in with anyone, anywhere.
