Review: Hannah Fairweather: Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge

Hannah Fairweather, photo by Karla Gowlett

Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge is a fun and fast-paced show by golfer-cum-comedian Hannah Fairweather, who may have more in common with her idol Taylor Swift than it first seems.

Fairweather is a fast talker – she’s making up for being quiet in school – and the jokes are coming thick and fast from the get-go. Working her way through a list of people that have wronged her, she manages to find parallels between Taylor Swift and Santa Claus as well as golf and comedy, drawing on her experiences playing competitive golf from an early age. 

She sets up a lot of jokes at the start of the show, rewarding the audience in unexpected ways throughout the hour. Most of it is wholesome fun, but she doesn’t shy away from risqué jokes about incest, which are particularly effective because she – as she alludes to herself – looks so prim and proper. In addition to a refreshing take on mental health, she also talks about uncomfortable experiences as a woman in the comedy industry, which she suggests might not do her any favours.

The show loses pace towards the end, when the jokes are fewer and less sophisticated as she puts the focus on her golfing days in South Carolina, but this is a fun, energetic and well-crafted hour by somebody who clearly isn’t the revengeful kind at all.