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Notaro faces absurdities, from hallucinatory texts to a surreal Hollywood meeting. Her life provides fodder for standup routines, including a late night encounter with a mustachioed fireman ... Read all Notaro faces absurdities, from hallucinatory texts to a surreal Hollywood meeting. Her life provides fodder for standup routines, including a late night encounter with a mustachioed fireman that makes her rethink things. Notaro faces absurdities, from hallucinatory texts to a surreal Hollywood meeting. Her life provides fodder for standup routines, including a late night encounter with a mustachioed fireman that makes her rethink things.

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Tig notaro still isn’t sure how she got here.

With a new comedy special, 'Hello Again,' about to drop, Hollywood’s stand-up circuit queen remains on the fence about her status as an actor: “It’s a little embarrassing!”

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Tig Notaro has never had to tell the same jokes for so long, but her latest comedy special, Hello Again , arrives March 26 on Prime Video — well over four years after she first started touring the material. “My God, it just would not end,” says Notaro. “I couldn’t wait to be home with my family, see friends, do my ridiculous podcast and just work on new material around Los Angeles. I’m maybe doing one show once a week, and that feels so manageable.”

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It seems like you’ve become the de facto Hollywood comic. Your social circle includes a lot of big names, so there are jokes about Reese Witherspoon and an A-list party I don’t want to spoil in your latest special. Do you ever worry about that causing conflict? 

No, because I’m not ever saying anything that’s mean. I don’t know if you’re familiar with my Taylor Dayne story. Sometimes people will misinterpret that to think I’m bashing her. But I’m not! It’s more like, “Yeah, she was rude to me, but I don’t care.” It’s amusing. I’ve since met Taylor Dayne, and I really appreciated that there wasn’t a heaviness to it. She was like, “I’ve heard you’ve been telling stories about me. Sounds about right. I probably was a couple of cocktails in.” I love ribbing people, and I love when people rib me. So, I don’t run anything by anyone. 

Stephanie said something to me once, like, “It’s all of us now. It’s not just you.” And I thought, “Oh, right …” ( Laughs .) I hadn’t thought about that. But, again, I consider everyone and how I’m coming across. It always goes back to intention for me. And mean? I don’t get any joy out of that. 

Stephanie directed Hello Again . You have a production company together. How do you handle work disagreements? 

It’s so easy. Whenever people find out that we work together, I always hear ( adopting a skeptical tone ), “Oh, how did that go?” We have a very similar sensibility, but I don’t think it’s in a boring way. I think we just elevate a similar vision to a point that we couldn’t have on our own.

You co-directed a film, Am I OK?, which sold to what was then HBO Max just before the Warner Bros. Discovery merger was completed and they started shelving films. What’s the status there?

They got rid of it. Then they came back and said, “We’re releasing it.” They haven’t announced the date, but I know when it is. It will come out on Max. But, for a while, it was all in the hands of the financier, and he was just updating us on trying to sell it. Honestly, I’m still not sure what happened. Stephanie and I were already moving on and busy with other projects, so it just felt like a “Keep us posted!” thing. 

We were surprised. But I’ve been out here for 28 years. I’m so used to things going away. I’m so used to being fired. I’m so used to everything taking so long and never really knowing. So I just don’t put much energy into thinking about that. I’m quickly off to the next thing.

I’ve read that you said you don’t have a lot of range as an actor — yet you’re acting a lot these days. How much is that by design? 

I never imagined I was going to act, and I’m very thankful for the work, but it’s a little embarrassing. Friends that I grew up with, they’ll reach out like, “I don’t remember you mentioning that you wanted to act.” Another friend from childhood texted me and goes, “I’m watching The Morning Show with Jon Hamm, Reese Witherspoon and you.” I’m also sitting there thinking, “How the hell did this happen?” It wasn’t my trajectory. 

Why do you say it’s embarrassing? 

Because I don’t identify with being an actor. People tell me I just have to accept it, because I am? During panels for the SAG Awards, trying to convince the voters that we’re the ones , they would get to me after Jen [Aniston], Reese, Jon, Holland Taylor, all these incredible actors, and I’d just be sitting there going, “Oh my God. I can’t believe I have to chime in about my ‘technique!’ ” 

They should have tapped you for that SAG Awards intro.

What did you learn from fronting your own TV series, One Mississippi ?

I didn’t understand, when I first got it, that it was my show. I let people call shots. I realized that later and thought, “Why was I asking permission for this? Why was I tiptoeing around that? Why did I let that person push me around?” And I don’t want to make it sound like it was a hostile work environment. I guess it just goes back to the fact that I really don’t connect with that world. 

So you’ve been doing the Hello Again set for over four years at this point — and there’s an extended bit about your time in physical therapy after back surgery, where you do this endless squatting sidestep across the stage. Were you apprehensive about incorporating actual exercise into a touring show? 

My special taping almost didn’t happen because there was a moment we thought I couldn’t do it. When I was touring Europe, [the airline] lost my luggage. It was just making its rounds all around Europe for two and a half weeks. When I went to the airport to try to find it, somebody checked me with their giant suitcase and just launched me. I fractured my wrist and ended up on crutches with my leg in a brace. Three days before I taped, I still couldn’t bend my knee. 

Yeah, but this was after. We were in one of those party buses with the stripper poles, and Allison was hanging upside down. She’s in such unbelievable good shape. At one point, she just picked me up from behind. Somebody posted the video to their social media, and you can just see the moment my rib breaks. 

Well, you pulled off the taping.

The outfit I was wearing for my special wasn’t what I’d planned, because my suitcase was still on its own tour without me. When I fell, it was at the Manchester Airport, and I never actually picked up the luggage before the ambulance came and got me. It ended up in a storage unit. It was the biggest circus. 

Broken bones aside, you seem well. And we’re 12 years out from the string of tragedies — your breast cancer diagnosis, contracting C. diff, your mother’s sudden death — that you talked about onstage. It catapulted your career, but it also brought this label of you having “bad luck.” Being in a different place now, what’s your relationship with that time and label? 

Who in your peer group makes you laugh the most?

I love Aparna Nancherla, my podcast co-hosts Fortune and Mae. Chris Fairbanks is one of the funniest people alive. We were almost legally married because our roommate situation went on for ten years. And there’s nobody like Maria Bamford. When I see her, I just think, “What am I doing? Why did I think I could do comedy?”

What advice would you give to someone who is trying to get into comedy right now?

Get up onstage every time you can, every night of the week. You have to make sure you are playing to every vibe — safe spaces, though, you don’t want to put yourself in harm’s way. I’ve done everything. There was a preacher in Southern California who booked me on a tour of churches. I was like, “I’m not religious. And I’m gay.” He thought I was hilarious and told me I could say whatever I want. But I’ve done it all — open mics at a taco stand, a laundromat. I’m still not too proud to do any kind of show. I did a vegan benefit in someone’s living room two nights ago. 

Did you even know the host? 

No! I drove about a half-hour before I looked at my itinerary and realized it was just some house. I called my wife and said, “If you don’t see me again, here’s the address.” 

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Tig (affectionately named by her brother as a child) was born in Jackson, MS and raised by her single mother in Pass Christian, MS. During hot summer days, her artistic and free-spirited mother would feed the children all three meals at once, then hose down their diapered bodies in highchairs to cut back on cooking and cleaning, leaving more time for her to paint donkeys on the outside of their house. The family eventually moved to Texas, where they gained a step-father who provided structure and alas… a house with no donkeys painted on the walls.

While serving time in a Texas high school, Tig failed three grades by entertaining classmates rather than entertaining the notion of a successful academic career. She decided to drop out of school in 9th grade and move to Denver, where she worked briefly in the music industry before moving to LA to lodge herself firmly into the world of comedy.

This year, Tig and her wife/writing partner Stephanie Allynne sold the screenplay First Ladies to Netflix, with Jennifer Aniston attached to star as the first female President of the United States, and Tig starring as the First Lady. In 2019 Tig will also appear opposite Octavia Spencer in the Paramount Pictures comedy Instant Family.

For two seasons, Tig wrote, produced, and starred in the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical Amazon series One Mississippi, which she co-created with Oscar Award winner Diablo Cody. The series yielded several award nominations, including WGA, GLAAD and The Critic's Choice Awards.

In 2013, Tig was nominated for a Grammy Award for her sophomore release, Live, the number one selling comedy album of 2012. Tig was also nominated for both an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award for her 2015 HBO special Boyish Girl Interrupted. She received a GLAAD Award nomination for the Netflix Original Documentary Tig. Her memoir, I’m Just a Person, is a New York Times Bestseller.

Tig is a favorite on numerous talk shows, including Ellen, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Conan. She is also a frequent public radio contributor. Tig continues to tour internationally, selling out Carnegie Hall in 2016. In her time off, Tig enjoys bird-watching with Stephanie, their twin sons, and cat, Fluff, at home in Los Angeles.

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Tig Notaro loves Van Halen. Like, really loves Van Halen. Not just Eddie, but Alex too.

Many people are probably familiar with Notaro’s 2012 album “Live” that begins “Hello, good evening, I have cancer,” and since has become one of the most iconic comedy sets in recent history. Her ability to bring levity to heavy moments is something that resonates with her audiences and rings through her comedy specials, as well as her sitcom “One Mississippi,” and the 2015 Netflix documentary “Tig,” chronicling her battle with breast cancer. But most people probably don’t know that Notaro has a music room at home with a drum kit and a Dolly Parton poster, a bedtime playlist routine, and managed to get the Indigo Girls to route their tour to Carnegie Hall just to share the stage for a song.

Now cancer-free, happily married, and the proud parent of twin boys and two podcasts: “Tig and Cheryl: True Story” and “Don’t Ask Tig,” Notaro takes the stage in L.A. at the Theatre at Ace Hotel this Saturday as part of her “Hello Again” tour. The show also doubles as a celebration of the release of her new album “Drawn” from her HBO special of the same name, which is the first ever fully-animated stand up special.

Music is a through line in so much of your work; can you talk about your connection to it?

Tig Notaro: It’s hard for me to look you in the face and tell you I’m a musician, but I can keep a beat and I know some chords! I actually came to L.A. to work in the music business, but I just love music and I was surrounded by it as a kid. I’m originally from southern Mississippi and my mother is from New Orleans — it’s just such a musical area. The way I respond to music or a favorite song or something I’ve never heard before reminds me so much of the way my mother responded to things. Every time I hear a song that she went nuts over it’s simultaneously the saddest and happiest moment. Now my kids are devouring music — they go to bed, listening to their little playlist that we put together and they make requests to hear different songs as they go to sleep.

Oh my God that’s so cute! They already have their own discerning music taste?

Yeah, it’s all over the place, everything from pop radio and boy band stuff to Bob Dylan and John Denver and James Taylor and Dolly Parton.

That’s awesome you’re encouraging your kids to explore music and culture and taste at such a young age.

Yeah. And it’s funny because I also have a [Dolly Parton] poster. We have a music room with drums and piano and guitars and stuff. And there’s a poster of Van Halen on the wall. I was a big Van Halen fan as a kid. And just the fact that my kids know who Eddie Van Halen is and Alex Van Halen brings me joy.

Are your kids funny?

Yes. I could do hours just talking about my children. And I always say that I live with a house full of writers. Our kids cuss, and they use the words correctly. In our house it’s me, Stephanie [Allynne], Max, Finn. We have three cats. Stephanie’s dad lives with us. One night, everyone’s all together watching TV and our son Max just gets up unprompted and walks off saying “I’m gonna get the hell outta here. All these damn cats!” and just leaves. And that was when he was 4!

On your TV show “One Mississippi,” your character has that awesome KCRW music and talk radio segment. If you had to program that today, what would you play?

John Denver’s “Sunshine on my Shoulders.” Stephanie and I walked down the aisle to it and it’s just a really beautiful song. And when I think about “One Mississippi,” I like to think that our characters would have gotten married. I would love to have re-created that moment.

When I suggested that song for our wedding, I told her that the line in the song that really made me think of marrying her, and [including] that song at our wedding day is the line where he says, “If I could give you a day, I’d give you a day just like today,” and for some reason, I just felt like, even though we hadn’t gotten married [yet], and I suspected how beautiful it might be, that that song would encapsulate all of it.

I very sadly lost my stepfather Ric recently . And I think that song would just, you know, be so important to add to that show.

That’s beautiful, and I’m so sorry about your loss.

Thank you. It’s been rough. And it was 10 years to the day after my mother died that I took him off life support. And he died of C. diff [ Clostridioides difficile ], which was the disease that I had. So it was intense. It was a few weeks ago, and it was unexpected. After my mother died, he just started coming out of his shell and growing and he just adored our kids. That song takes me back to so much love and so much beauty and just a near perfect moment in my life.

What brings you to the mundane in your comedy?

I think that mundane and boring is so funny. People can make the joke that every podcast is boring, but I would love to have a podcast where I interview a boring person. Whenever I get my picture taken, I always tell the photographer to please tell me a boring story, because that makes me happy and laugh. I’m just thoroughly amused by mundane, sometimes boring, or also irritating to some. I’m a big fan of nonsense, ridiculousness and earnestness somehow all mixed together.

Speaking of nonsense and ridiculousness and earnestness, I loved your whole anticipation and build bit that you did with the Indigo Girls in your 2018 show “Happy to Be Here.”

That Indigo Girls bit! Some people are like, “I can’t watch that. That makes me so uncomfortable. Oh, my God.” I remember I was doing it in Florida one night, and this woman in the front row said, “I thought you were nicer than this!” I know. Like, this is not an attack on you. It’s a joke. I’m teasing a moment!

‘It’s just so smart. Because you’re giving the audience over to the joy of the moment of anticipation. Right? But then at the same time, it’s funny because I’m assuming you’re not bringing up the Indigo Girls up at every gig.

I know, I did a whole tour where I never brought them out. I just would end my show saying “who wants to see the Indigo Girls?” and people would raise their hand. And then I would say, “Well, then go buy tickets to the Indigo Girls!” And then I’d leave the stage.

I know your show at the Theatre at Ace Hotel this Saturday is a celebration of the physical record release of your HBO special “Drawn.” Can you tell me a little bit about that process?

I had this material that I had done that I didn’t do anything with. And I just thought, “Well, I don’t want to just ditch all this.” I thought an animation with Greg Franklin would be great. So I pitched it and we sold it the day or the day before the shutdown happened. And everybody thought that I had this brilliant idea to do an animated special because of the pandemic, but it really had nothing to do with it.

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Was there really a spider?

There really was! I was mid-show and a spider came down. And I was like, “Oh, my God.” I thought about this later — how the three biggest human fears are spiders, public speaking and heights. So I wish I had done this special from, you know, a skyscraper.

What can people expect at the Ace this Saturday?

It’s an album release party for “Drawn,” so the first 100 people through the door get a free autographed copy of the album. There will be a lot of personal stories and observations about life and a whole lot of nonsense and a big fun surprise finale. It’s fun for me to do the show. A lot of silliness, real stories, things where people say, “Did you make that up? Is that real?” Yes. It’s real. It’s all real.

I’m very excited to do this material. And you know, I’ve workshopped it at Largo, which is where I do my regular monthly show when I’m in town.

I know Largo is a really important place to you here in Los Angeles. Can you talk about why that is?

I started doing Largo through friends like Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman [who] had their own monthly show there back when it was on Fairfax. It was always the room that was a blast to perform in. The audience is always so cool and smart and into it and it just became my favorite room in town. [After “Live”] I became one of the faces of Largo, not that they needed me. I live close enough to it that I can just swing by and work out whatever material I need to. And the other nice thing too is my mother and stepfather’s old couch — I didn’t know where to put it — I inherited it, but I had a hard time getting rid of it. So I put it backstage at Largo. And so now, my mother and my stepfather’s couch is back there in this part of the venue where the comedians sit before they go on stage. There’s a lot of pictures of comedians on this couch and it’s just great.

What is it about comedy that keeps you performing and writing?

It’s that feeling I think that anyone feels when something funny or interesting happens. And you think, ”Oh my gosh, I can’t wait to tell my wife. I can’t wait to tell my friend!” And that’s how I feel. I don’t walk around trying to find funny things. I’m just living my life and I have this extra sense that when something hits me, I go, “Oh my gosh, that’ll be so funny to explore or tell.” I love sharing a story with people; I love sharing an experience. It’s funny when I hear comedians saying, “Oh, I don’t know if I can tell that because nobody knows that singer” or “they don’t know my aunt” or — and it’s like, you didn’t describe them! I mean, it’s like when you tell anybody anything. I used to have this story about, again, a singer Taylor Dayne that I ran into numerous times, and it would bomb at first and people would say, “Well, it’s because nobody knows who Taylor Dayne is anymore.” And I’m like, “No, that’s not it. I have to rework it.” There’s something in the writing or delivery that’s not working because with comedy you can make anyone familiar with anything.

It’s just that excitement. I love sharing a story with people; I love sharing an experience. Everything can become relatable. I just love making that connection and connecting with a huge dark room.

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With Hello Again , Tig Notaro knows she's a role model for queer women

With Hello Again, Tig Notaro knows she's a role model for queer women

“I had people that I admired from afar, whether it was The Indigo Girls or Ellen DeGeneres, or Melissa Etheridge, all these people,” she says. “It is odd to wake up one day and have people telling me that about myself.

Tig Notaro has been building up to her new comedy special Hello Again for over a decade.

Those of us who have been fans of Notaro’s for a long time will remember when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 2012 and immediately shared the news during a standup set and went into even more detail on her podcast Professor Blastoff .

Throughout the next several years, Notaro discussed her health problems and recovery openly and hilariously. At the same time, she met and started dating a new woman, Stephanie Allynne, whom she met while filming a small role in a movie, and soon, stories of doctor’s visits were interspersed with cute stories of the two falling in love.

Now with Hello Again , those stories are coming full circle, as Notaro hilariously opens up about her now marriage to Allynne, their two kids, and another recent health scare.

“Yeah, it's wild. Stephanie and I, we met on the independent movie called In A World , and we have an ongoing joke where we turn to each other at really awkward or horrifying moments in life and we say, ‘We met on In A World ,’ and just kind of bring one another back to the reality of we were both very minor roles in an independent film,” Notaro laughs.

“The fact that we are still together – we've been together 11 years – and whether we're changing a diaper or our flights canceled and we have miserable kids and we're stuck at an airport, we always turn and we say ‘We met on In A World, ’” she continues. “But it's incredible. There's been so many things in our careers that have captured our relationship from podcasts to movies, to TV shows.”

Notaro not only talks extensively about her and Allynne’s relationship in her comedy, the two also showed a fictional version of their relationship in the show One Mississippi , which ran for only two seasons, and which Notaro says, “If there was a world that it could have kept going, we would’ve loved it.” Now, Allynne has directed Notaro’s new special.

While Notaro’s personal life is wound up into her work, she still makes sure to be respectful about her family’s privacy.

“When I leave for the night, I have to go do a show. I'll say, ‘All right, I got to go tell everybody stories about you. I gotta go tell jokes about Max and Finn.’ They love it. They're very amused by that,” she says. “I have to say, after getting married and having kids, Stephanie did say one time, not everything should be on the table. I thought, oh yeah, I guess that is true. I'm not just by myself in this world anymore. And so, there's something that I kind of oddly take pride in considering my kids and my family.”

She also mentions that yes, her kids have seen her perform. “They did go see me at a matinee vegan benefit and heckled me, that was unbelievable,” she laughs.

Notaro also knows that by talking so openly about her family, she’s being a role model for other queer women.

“I had people that I admired from afar, whether it was The Indigo Girls or Ellen DeGeneres, or Melissa Etheridge, all these people,” she says. “It is odd to wake up one day and have people telling me that about myself. I enjoy that people are inspired by it, but I also am very quick to also remind people that I am not perfect. My family is not perfect.”

“Then there are people that tell me, ‘You don't have to add that to everything. You don't have to always remind people.’ I'm like, I understand that, but I also feel like I do,” she notes. “I just do want to add that in because Stephanie and I have our rough moments and our rough days, and our kids are pretty close to perfect, but not fully perfect. Life is real for everybody, and it's great and real for us too.”

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Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actor as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including “Ellen,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and “Conan.” Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time.” Notaro currently appears in Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead” and “Star Trek: Discovery”; she wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show “One Mississippi” and hosts an advice podcast, Don’t Ask Tig as well as the documentary film podcast Tig and Cheryl: True Story.

Tig Notaro uses her casual, deadpan delivery to explore topics from the everyday wonders of being a parent, to the quirky and absurd facets of life that few stop to notice, and she does it expertly. Down to earth, personal, and poignantly funny, Tig’s new stand-up tour is a chance to see the award-winning, writer, comedian, and actor live and in her element!

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In recognition of the WGA Strike, the Saturday, June 10 shows on Tig Notaro's Hello Again Tour at Kings Theatre has been rescheduled for Saturday, November 4. All tickets for the original performance will be honored, so patrons should hold on to their tickets. For ticket inquiries or questions, please contact [email protected] .

This performance will be recorded for Tig Notaro’s new comedy special and will start promptly at the advertised time. Late arrival will potentially result in seat relocation due to taping.

Tig Notaro is a comedian, actor and writer originally from Mississippi, who Rolling Stone named one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.

She can currently be seen in THE MORNING SHOW alongside Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and the latest season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY on Paramount+. Tig recently starred in Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD, and prior to that was seen in the heartwarming Paramount film INSTANT FAMILY with Mark Wahlberg and Octavia Spencer. Tig also previously wrote, produced and starred in the semi- autobiographical Amazon series, One Mississippi, for which she also directed an episode. Season 1 yielded several nominations including - WGA, GLAAD and The Critics's Choice Awards.

Tig’s most recent and fully animated standup special, Drawn, was nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association Award. She was previously nominated for an Emmy as well as a Grammy for her 2016 HBO special Boyish Girl Interrupted, a GLAAD Award nomination for the Netflix Original Documentary Tig, and her memoir I’m Just a Person is a New York Times Bestseller. In 2013, Tig was also nominated for a Grammy for her sophomore release, Live, which was the #1 selling comedy album in the world that year. Live is a stand-up set delivered just days after Tig was diagnosed with invasive bilateral breast cancer, of which she is now in remission. Tig remains a favorite on talk shows "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon", public radio, and continues to tour internationally.

Tig and her wife, Stephanie Allynne, co-directed the feature film, AM I OK?, starring Dakota Johnson and Sinoya Mizuno, which premiered at Sundance and is available to stream on Max. She also hosts the critically acclaimed advice podcast, DON'T ASK TIG, and recently launched HANDSOME, a comedy podcast with friends Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin.

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Emmy and Grammy nominated comedian Tig Notaro returns with  Hello Again,  a hilarious and sharply observed stand-up special packed with delightfully awkward misunderstandings, health scares made hilarious, and family moments with her wife and children that are simultaneously sidesplitting and heartwarming. From the “Make Believe Lounge” to the hallway outside her physical therapist’s office, Notaro exercises her unique gift for finding humor in situations ranging from the everyday to the bizarre. A masterful stand up at the top of her game, Notaro crafts comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botched meeting with a Hollywood heavyweight, and a late-night encounter with a mustachioed fireman who has her questioning everything. Featuring her signature delivery and celebrated gift for storytelling, Notaro’s riotous new hour is sure to entertain and amuse, hitting all the right notes along the way to its virtuosic finale.

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Tig Notaro: Hello Again Review – A Sleep-Inducing Special

Stand-up comedy is a delicate business, as people’s tastes differ on different levels. Some people like topical humor, others don’t; some prefer deadpan humor, and some don’t. People will view the same comedy differently depending on their likes and dislikes. While that makes the contents of Tig Notaro: Hello Again on Prime Video difficult to objectively judge, some fundamental truths help determine whether the comedy is good.

Jokes should be simple and easy to understand for a mass audience. Delivery should be loud, clear, and reasonably paced. Finally, the contents should be relatable on some level. Hello Again fails at all of these.

Tig Notaro: Hello Again Will Bore You To Tears

It’s said that humor is tragedy plus time, and if that’s true, Tig Notaro’s life has been wonderful and anything but tragic. She mainly keeps to life stories throughout the hour-long special, talking audiences through little vignettes of her experiences. And hardly any of them are comedic.

This points to the first problem with the comedy. If audiences haven’t lived through any of the life experiences that Tig Notaro is describing, it makes it difficult to relate to her, which for me, a young white straight man, is impossible. Other people (not just men) will have difficulty relating too and lose out.

Some of the humor is universally relatable, like a section in the performance where Tig describes mishearing people to a supposedly comedic effect. This is when she runs into the idea that jokes should be simple and easy to understand.

While having a meeting with Reese Witherspoon (not the relatable part), Tig explains she misheard her. OK, that’s relatable. She says she failed to understand that when Witherspoon said Nicole Kidman is 6 feet and Shailene (as in Shailene Woodley) is 5’8, Tig misheard her and responded with how she dated an insecure 6-foot woman with a hunch.

At the time, Witherspoon and the others were bewildered, and that’s more relatable than anything Tig has said. Tig had to explain the joke in the show to her confused audience, and that’s when a joke has gone and is never coming back. Seeing the inside of how a joke works has never made it funnier.

Of course, if a comedian knows their audience, their jokes can match the niche or complexity wavelength people are on, but in stand-up comedy, this isn’t an assumption that can be easily made — doubly so if the show has been recorded for a mass audience on a streaming platform.

The third and final nail in the coffin of Tig’s show is her overly slow, even cautious, delivery. This kneecaps any sense of pace and constant hard-hitting laughs, and by the time she’s reached the payoff of a joke, audiences have forgotten the setup. Comedy is often best delivered at a slightly faster than medium pace, not one where watching at 1.5 times the speed is needed to get to the punchline.

Not all the jokes fall flat on the floor, but none of them will likely send anyone into hysterics like good comedy should. They might chuckle the audience out of the slumber they’ve fallen into, only for them to go right back into it.

Tig’s slow and quiet delivery kills any comedic value left

How a joke is delivered impacts its ability to be funny just as much as the words themselves. Some of the jokes that might have landed have had the wind taken out of them by Tig’s glacially slow delivery. Audiences would be forgiven for forgetting some of the setup. It also makes the show feel unnecessarily long.

This isn’t helped by her quiet voice, enough to let audiences fall asleep. Comedy relies on quick delivery to keep an audience laughing, but Tig’s style does the opposite. It actively disengages the audience and causes them to lose focus. This is the biggest flaw in Tig Notaro: Hello World , but it’s by no means the only one.

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Tig Notaro: Hello Again review – all the right notes, except on piano

Theatre Royal, Brighton The comic brings an assured touch to tales of everyday humiliation, and even her terrible musicianship is endearing for a while

T ig Notaro has never had an interval onstage until now – “intermissions”, in her word, not being a thing for standups in the US. So it’s apt that Hello Again really is a show of two halves. The first finds Notaro at the top of her game, reporting back in her studied, laconic style on new parenthood, her health (albeit not as dramatically as in the show that made her name ) and unexpected crushes. The second finds her taking to the piano – a medium for which, and here’s the gag, she has no aptitude whatsoever.

I admired the playfulness of that second act, the beaming impertinence with which the 52-year-old pushes the joke of her tunelessness right to the end of the show. But it tested my patience, too.

The first half is stronger. Here is an instrument, standup comedy, from which Notaro can summon any tune she likes. The opening set-piece, about being scooped out of her marital bed by a moustachioed emergency-services hunk, plays deliciously against “old-fashioned lesbian” type. An anecdote about Notaro’s faulty hearing is a masterpiece of comic productivity, as she returns over and again, from different angles, to the humiliation of her misapprehending a throwaway remark about Nicole Kidman’s height.

Scarcely a word is wasted, as our host paces the stage, each step as deliberate as her itemising – detail by excruciating detail – this or that moment of everyday indignity. Here, a gesture of social panic by her chiropractor, momentarily uncertain of Notaro’s gender, is worked to yield a rich comic load. There, a trip to her physio becomes, thanks in part to her physio’s blindness to humour, a display of ritual public ignominy.

Notaro even gets to show her crowd-work chops, when her glitching microphone prompts a cack-handed heckle from the stalls. After this standup masterclass, Notaro’s sub- Les Dawson , duff-pianist act can’t help but feel like a comedown. Yes it’s sweetly silly, and her pleasure in straying this far off-piste is fun to share. But the joke of Tig’s talentlessness makes less impact than the talent for joking that lights up the first hour of her show.

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Amazon announced on Thursday that Hello Again , the newest special from comedian Tig Notaro , will premiere on Prime Video on March 26. Check out a clip above.

Directed by Notaro’s wife, Stephanie Allynne, the special comes on the heels of her HBO hour Tig Notaro: Drawn , which made history as the first fully animated stand-up special in 2021. It’s said to be packed with delightfully awkward misunderstandings, health scares made hilarious, and family moments with her wife and children that are simultaneously sidesplitting and heartwarming.

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Notaro was previously in business with Amazon as the co-creator and star of its semi-autobiographical comedy series One Mississippi , which won a Critics’ Choice Television Award and ran for two seasons. On the acting front, she’s most recently been seen in The Morning Show Season 3, as well as Star Trek: Discovery . Other recent credits include the Netflix pics Your Place or Mine , We Have a Ghost , and Army of the Dead .

Notaro was nominated for a Grammy for Live , a comedy album that saw her grapple in darkly hilarious and cathartic fashion with a diagnosis of bilateral breast cancer, from which she is now in remission. She also recently teamed with Allynne to direct the Sundance rom-com Am I OK? , starring Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno, which has been slated for release on Max in 2024.

Tig Notaro: Hello Again was produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Above Average, with Notaro, Allynne, Marc Lieberman and Ally Engelberg serving as executive producers.

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Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actor as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including “Ellen,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and “Conan.” Rolling Stone named her one of the "50 best stand-up comics of all time." Notaro currently appears in Zack Snyder’s "Army of the Dead" and “Star Trek: Discovery”; she wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show “One Mississippi” and hosts an advice podcast, Don't Ask Tig as well as the documentary film podcast Tig and Cheryl: True Story.

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Saturday, September 10, 2022 show on Tig Notaro’s HELLO AGAIN tour at Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, NY has been rescheduled for Friday, Apr 21, 2023. All tickets for the original performance will be honored, so patrons should hold on to their tickets. For ticket inquiries, please contact point of purchase. For tour information, please visit https://tignation.com/

Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actor as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon , and Ellen . Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time.” Notaro appears in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and Star Trek: Discovery ; she wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show One Mississippi and just released her second HBO special Tig Notaro: Drawn . In 2021, Tig co-directed the feature film ‘Am I OK?’ with wife, Stephanie Allynne, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be available on HBO Max later this year. She hosts the critically acclaimed advice podcast, Don’t Ask Tig as well as co-hosts the ridiculous documentary film podcast Tig and Cheryl: True Story .

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“Tig Notaro returns with a hilarious stand-up special in which she talks about her daily life, getting in embarrassing situations and tries to play the piano. From start to finish, Hello Again will make you laugh out loud.”

Tig Notaro is coming back with a new stand-up special. After Happy To Be Here in 2018 on Netflix and Tig Notaro: Draw n in 2022 on HBO, she is heading back to Amazon with Hello Again . This new special is Notaro’s first project with Amazon since the end of her Prime Video comedy series One Mississippi in 2017 .  Tig Notaro: Hello Again releases tomorrow on Prime Video.

I love Tig Notaro’s dry humour. I had a great time with her previous stand-up specials. So, I was obviously looking forward to this one. And honestly, it doesn’t disappoint. Tig returns with a hilarious special! I laughed out loud all the way to the end. This is really my type of humour. While some American comedians are extremely vulgar in order to be funny, Tig doesn’t need that. She just has to tell a story about her daily life to make you laugh. In fact, she is able to find humour in everything. She is even able to draw humour from her former cancer and her other medical problems. I think you have to be a really talented comedian to be able to do that. This is how good she is.

My favourite part of this special is her stories about getting in embarrassing situations because she misunderstood what the other person said. Like with the “Make Believe Lounge” that is actually the “Mapple Leaf Lounge” or the conversation about heights with Reese Witherspoon. This is incredibly funny. Situations like this have already happened to me so I can definitely relate to that. On top of that, she has a way to tell these stories that make them even funnier. Undoubtedly, when it ends, you don’t notice it’s already been an hour.

THE PIANIST

At one point the staff brings a piano on stage so you may expect that she is a good player, but she warns you from the start she is not. Tig doesn’t know how to play the piano, she just touches the keys randomly while telling you she is getting ready for a song. Indeed, she uses this piano to tell more jokes and make fun of herself. While some comedians would bring an instrument on stage and actually play that instrument well, she does the contrary of that. I love how Tig is always ready to find surprising ways to amuse her audience. There is never a dull moment with her. It keeps going and going. I’m all here for it!

Tig Notaro returns with a hilarious stand-up special in which she talks about her daily life, getting in embarrassing situations and tries to play the piano. From start to finish, Hello Again will make you laugh out loud.

Tig Notaro: Hello Again releases tomorrow on Prime Video .

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Tig Notaro is back on tour, and it’s not the end of the road after all

There is one obvious reason Tig Notaro is calling her new tour “Hello, Again.” The show, which comes to the Chevalier Theatre in Medford on Friday, is her reintroduction to live stand-up after a pandemic-induced year-and-a-half hiatus, which officially ended in September when she made her first appearance in Los Angeles to prepare for the road.

Notaro didn’t do stand-up online or at drive-ins during those roughly 18 months of downtime. “I just thought, I’m gonna lay low, hang out with my family, do my podcasts, and then return if and when the time is right,” she says, speaking by phone between shows on her current tour. “I’ve returned, and I’m not certain the time is right, but I’m doing it and people are buying tickets and showing up, so it feels good.”

There came a time during her time off when Notaro wondered if she would ever get onstage again. “I really didn’t know,” she says. “I love stand-up. But I’ve been doing it 25 years and I just thought, well, if this is the end of the road, I’ve had a great run. And I’m willing to pivot if need be. But luckily, this is still an option for now.”

Notaro had already toured with a new hour of material she was readying for her next special, and a lot of that material survives in the current show, with some new things added. It would be strange not to address COVID at all, but Notaro hasn’t made it a focus. “It’s not really what I want to talk about, other than just acknowledging it and then moving on,” she says. “[The material is] about my family, my marriage, my kids, my ongoing medical journey, and observations in life — a lot of nonsense.”

In a stand-up career that has continually evolved over 25 years, Notaro once again finds herself wondering what will come next. While she wasn’t touring, she was still very much in the public eye. She kept up two podcasts — her advice show “Don’t Ask Tig” and a review of documentaries, “Tig and Cheryl: True Story,” with Cheryl Hines. She debuted a new stand-up special called “Drawn” on HBO in 2021, which conveniently had been sold before the pandemic and featured cartoon renderings of previously recorded bits from different sets.

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But Notaro has also added another title over the past two years: Tig the Badass. That started when she was brought onboard “Star Trek: Discovery” in season two as Human Federation Starfleet officer Jett Reno, delivering lines like “Evolution is a fickle bitch, am I right?” and requiring her to take a deep dive into space jargon about phasers and radiation fields. She wasn’t sure she was the best fit for the role, and even told “Discovery” creator Alex Kurtzman as much.

“I was scared I was doing a bad job,” she says, “And I didn’t want him to feel like he had to keep having me back. He said, ‘Listen, now that I know that you’re struggling so much with your lines, I’m just gonna make them even harder for you.’ ”

Tig the Badass cemented her reputation in 2021 with the release of the zombie movie “Army of the Dead,” into which she was digitally added to play ultra-cool helicopter pilot Marianne Peters. That got her trending on Twitter as a sex symbol , with images of her in aviator shades and flight suit, a cigar planted firmly in her scowl.

Notaro says she was working on an upcoming project, “Am I Okay?,” which she co-directed with her wife, actress Stephanie Allynne, when friends started texting to say she was trending. Notaro didn’t know what to make of it. “I said they’re texting me saying I’m trending for being ‘sexy as a F.’ And [Allynne] said, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s sexy AF, not as a F.’ ”

The attention did make her stop and reassess herself. “That was beyond shocking. I came into that role after the movie was shot,” she says, “so I thought I was gonna be just such an afterthought to a huge ensemble of very obviously hot women in the movie, you know? I didn’t think that turning 50 and being green-screened into an action zombie film was going to send me trending for being sexy.”

All of this comes at the end of a group of releases Notaro feels are part of a trilogy, starting with her 2012 album “Live” (as in “to live” rather than “live in concert”), and including her specials “Boyish Girl Interrupted” (2015) and “Happy to Be Here” (2018). She had been looking for a way to push herself past the dry one-liners of her earlier work into more of a storytelling style when life events — particularly a cancer diagnosis and the death of her mother — led her to deeply personal material. That connected with audiences and propelled her stand-up to new heights.

Now, as she ventures back out on the road, and continues to explore new film and television projects, and potentially recording a new special on this tour, she is once again at the threshold of something new. And she’s as interested as the rest of us to see where it goes.

“I kind of don’t know where I am with my stand-up, because I’m just maybe 10 shows into doing stand-up again,” she says. “I had this conversation with Stephanie before I left on tour where I was like, ‘Gosh, it could go any direction.’ I truly don’t know what’s to come. And that’s kind of a weird and exciting, but weird, but exciting, but weird, but exciting feeling.”

At the Chevalier Theatre, 30 Forest St., Medford, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. Tickets $35-$60. chevaliertheatre.com

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“I always tell people it just feels like ‘Tig in space.'”

That’s Tig Notaro on her “Star Trek: Discovery” character, Jett Reno, who’s a deadpan wisecracking, nickname-assigning engineer on the show. Out of the blue, Jett will call another character “Bobcat” or suddenly reveal an expected part of her past, such as her former life as a bookseller or bartender. Gauntlet thrown to Paramount+ to release the recipe for Jett’s “Seven of Limes.”

“Yeah, who knows?” Notaro said when asked if there’s a chance we could continue to see Jett on “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” the planned series that will take place after “Discovery” wraps up. “Maybe the full-blown Jett Reno spinoff. I’m hoping that I can continue on somewhere, somehow, because I do feel like it is such a fun character, and I have been very spoiled by the writers and everybody. I’ve had such a great time, and I just hope that there is a future for Jett Reno somewhere.” Related Stories ‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Showrunner on Why Edwin Had to Confess His Love in Hell Nicole Kidman Was So ‘Pissed Off’ While Filming ‘Big Little Lies’ That She Threw a Rock Through a Window

Notaro feels a profound identification with Reno, down to the odd jobs it’s constantly being revealed Reno has worked in her life: “I feel like it makes sense for the character’s scrappiness, that there’s been so many different paths that she’s gone down, and different jobs and experiences that, again, I relate to as a person. I feel like I’ve done so many different odd jobs that I was never on a clear path. I feel like for so long in my life, I was just jumping from one random thing to the next, and I feel like all of those experiences, I’m very thankful for.”

One of those experiences literally led her to acting on “Star Trek: Discovery” in the first place. Back in the ’90s, Notaro met future “Trek” franchise overlord Alex Kurtzman, while they were both PA’ing in Hollywood to start their careers.

You’d never know it, because Reno, as an engineer, is responsible for spouting much of the technical jargon on the show, but Notaro feels like she’s never gotten more comfortable with the franchise’s trademark technobabble: “No, no, no. I do not. I struggle through it, but I remind everyone I was doing my best and endlessly thankful for the patience of the cast and crew. I’m typically on tour doing stand up, and then I would pop into set [in Toronto] and do an episode or two, and then leave again.”

But tongue-tying dialogue aside, Notaro loves everything about “Star Trek,” including what it represents at this moment in time.

“I feel like it represents what the world could and should be,” she said. “I can’t claim that I’ve followed ‘Star Trek’ from day one, but my brother and I were very into the original series when we were kids. I know everyone says this but it is really such an honor to be a part of a show that is putting so much positivity and hope out there, which it’s always needed, but I feel like it’s so crucial these days. I guess there are people that, of course, would be upset with hope, and joy, and openness, but in general it’s not hurting anybody’s feelings.”

“Well, I think all the time about how as a kid, it took me forever to figure myself out, which always surprises people,” Notaro said. “They feel like, you meet me now and you’re like, ‘Oh, of course, you’ve understood who you are from day one,’ but that’s not the case at all. I think that the older I get, the more I really realize the importance of — how can you not understand the importance of? — visibility and inclusivity? I just think about how amazing that would have been as a kid to see the extent that ‘Star Trek’ has been inclusive and the visibility there. It’s really remarkable, and so another source of pride.”

The finale of “Star Trek: Discovery” will stream Thursday, May 30 on Paramount+.

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