'I got scared': Nanette moment audiences didn't see

HANNAH Gadsby’s Netflix special Nanette has launched the comedian to international acclaim.

But while the streaming service shows Gadsby’s comedy set at the Sydney Opera House, in reality she performed Nanette more than 200 times.

Honing the confronting material through several hundred performances was no easy task, with Gadsby having to contend with hecklers who were unhappy with Nanette’s darker content.

The comedian even once backed out of the show because she was afraid of the audience.

“There was one show, I did, though, that I didn’t do it. It was billed to be Nanette and I didn’t do it, and that was in Cairns,” Gadsby told Tuesday’s episode of The Project.

“I went up and just sort of started doing the show and I just heard a bit too much rarrr, it was a rumble — they weren’t unhappy.

“I thought this could turn, I got scared and didn’t do it. I just did the classics, the greatest hits and told a story about getting stuck on a water slide, Cairns will like that.”

The comedian also admitted she had “lost control” at one male heckler during a show in Perth.

“It was not funny and I lost control of myself,” Gadsby admitted. “But I was, you know, really angry and, because I had just been really vulnerable, I had talked about really personal trauma and this guy goes, ‘I think you got it wrong there’.”

To Gadsby’s surprise, her take-down of the heckler got a positive reaction from the women in the audience.

“It didn’t feel good to be just yelling at this man, but I did get a lot of messages back from that show from women going, ‘I had never seen a man get put back in his place like that, thank you,’” she said.

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