Comedian Hannah Gadsby's divides social media as she jokes she is 'dressing up as diabetes' for Halloween

She is known for her dry sense of humour. And Australian comedian was at it again this Halloween... but not everyone has agreed with her joke.

On Wednesday, the 40-year-old posted a picture of herself holding a giant red gummy bear to Instagram, joking in the caption, 'I'm dressing up as diabetes for Halloween.'

She also added the hashtags '#it'ssugar' and '#nos***', referring to the product label.

However, not everyone was impressed with Hannah's humour, with one social media user commenting: 'I'm a type 1 diabetic and "jokes" like this only create further confusion and make light of a disease that impacts every single second of my life. It's also incredibly insulting to people with type 2.'

Another added: ‘After 32 years as type 1 (Australian) diabetic I still don’t find diabetes jokes funny.’

Meanwhile, others who suffer from the disease saw the light in the post.

‘I’m T2 [type two diabetes] and thought your joke was sweet as could be,’ one user commented in defence of Hannah.

While another said: ‘As a type 1 diabetic I have myself thought of dressing up as diabetes in some form because there is this weird thing I enjoy doing of laughing at my own misfortune to help with the fact my pancreas died when I was eight.’

The Australian, who hails from Tasmania, recently shot to international fame following her comedy special Nanette airing on streaming service Netflix.

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