Traumedy: Baby Reindeer & Feel Good are reeling in new film genre

Stand-up comedy has always been autobiographical, but now a new generation of comedians are adapting their lives (or versions of them) into scripted series. Mae Martin's Feel Good (2020-21) and Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer (2024) offer us particularly potent examples of when trauma and comedy intersect - traumedy - and how comedians are using autofiction to explore these dark stories.