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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.

Comedian Josh Johnson gives crowds a therapy session with a shot of bourbon for his new special

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.

Where: Theatre at Ace Hotel, 929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles When: 7p.m. Saturday Tickets: https://acehotel.com/going-on/tig-notaro-hello-again/ More tour dates: https://tignation.com/

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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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On August 3, Tig performed a set following a tragic series of events.  She went through a difficult breakup, developed an intestinal infection, lost her mother in a tragic accident, and learned that she had stage-two breast cancer in both of her breasts. Tig’s performance began as she announced her cancer diagnosis, telling the increasingly stunned audience that she was quite serious, and recounting the series of events.  Her performance earned widespread approval from the audience; at one point, someone in the crowd can be heard shouting, “This is fucking amazing!” Comedians were just as impressed with Tig’s set.

Comics took to Twitter following Tig’s performance. Bill Burr wrote, “Just saw Tig Notaro at Largo… Made me feel like I was an  open miker . Absolute genius!”   Ed Helms wrote , “Tig Notaro just blew my mind at Largo.  One of the most amazing stand-up sets I’ve ever seen.”  Finally, Louis C.K. wrote, “In 27 years doing this, I’ve seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.”

Louie’s praise did not end there; he wrote to Tig and asked if he could sell her Largo set on  his website for $5.  Louie wrote a message to his mailing list where he elaborated on Tig’s set as “one of the greatest standup performances I ever saw.”  Louie added, “The show was an amazing example of what comedy can be.  A way to visit your worst fears and laugh at them.  Tig took us to a scary place and made us laugh there.  Not by distracting us from the terror but by looking right at it and just turning to us and saying, “Wow. Right?”  She proved that everything is funny.  And has to be.  And she could only do this by giving us her own death as an example.  So generous.”

Fortunately, Tig’s prognosis is good. She had a double mastectomy and recently announced that she is cancer free. She will soon write for Amy Schumer’s new Comedy Central series, based right here in New York. Tig also has a book planned, where she will write about some of the material she covers in her Largo set.

What are some of the most memorable stand-up performances you’ve seen? Which comedians or routines derived from the darkest subjects have had the most impact on you? Let us know by sounding off in our comments! In the meantime, keep supporting live comedy here at  Stand Up NY and pick up Tig’s new album on LouisCK.com.

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Prime Video Announces New Stand-Up Comedy Special Tig Notaro: Hello Again

The highly anticipated comedy special will premiere March 26 on Prime Video

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LOS ANGELES—February 15, 2024— Emmy, Grammy and SAG Award nominated comedian, actress, writer and director Tig Notaro returns to the stage for her new comedy special on Prime Video, Tig Notaro: Hello Again . The one-hour special will premiere in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on March 26, 2024. 

Tig Notaro: Hello Again is 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. With her signature delivery and celebrated gift for storytelling, Notaro’s new set hits all the right notes.  

Rolling Stone named Notaro, a Mississippi native, one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.   

Most recently, Notaro appeared in Season 3 of The Morning Show on Apple TV+ alongside Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount Plus. She recently starred in the Netflix films Your Place or Mine and We Have a Ghost , as well as Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead . Prior to that, she starred in the Paramount film Instant Family alongside Mark Wahlberg and Octavia Spencer. 

Notaro wrote, produced and starred in the semi-autobiographical Prime Video series One Mississippi , which yielded critical acclaim and a Critics Choice Award. Additionally, the show garnered nominations from the WGA Awards and the GLAAD Media Awards.

Her most recent HBO standup special, Tig Notaro: Drawn , made history as the first fully animated stand-up special and was nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association Award. In 2013, she was also nominated for a Grammy for her sophomore release, Live , which was the No. 1 selling comedy album in the world that year. Live is a stand-up performance Notaro delivered just days after she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer, from which she is now in remission.

Notaro and her wife, Stephanie Allynne, co-directed the feature film, Am I OK? , starring Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno. The romantic comedy premiered at Sundance and was acquired by HBO Max for a 2024 release.   

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

Tig Notaro: Hello Again Synopsis 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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A blonde woman sunbathes by a pool. In the reflection of her sunglasses, we watch as an incapacitated and visibly bleeding post-op Tig Notaro stumbles toward her. “ Have you seen Leslie? ” Notaro manages to mumble, still just a zombie silhouette in the woman’s glasses. The anonymous woman, frightened and confused, breathlessly whispers, “No,” to Notaro. “If you see Leslie, can you tell her that Tig needs to go to the hospital? ”

While that scene might feels like it’s straight out of a horror film, it’s actually from Notaro’s new stand-up special. Executive produced by Notaro, her old friend Ellen DeGeneres, and a host of others, Drawn takes a live stand-up set and builds it into a fully animated world, giving each of Notaro’s stories—a bloody saga involving getting her wisdom teeth taken out; an unfortunate series of text message exchanges with comic Jenny Slate —its own distinct style of animation, ranging from Saturday morning cartoon to Pixar.

In a phone call with V.F., Notaro revealed that she dusted off some of her older bits for the special, which premieres July 24 on HBO. “I liked the material even though I wasn’t really doing it anymore,” she said matter-of-factly. Originally she thought she might release the jokes as a comedy album. Then Notaro remembered a conversation she’d had more than a decade ago, with cartoonist and animation director Greg Franklin, about collaborating. One thing led to another, and eventually Notaro enlisted Franklin’s animation studio, Six Point Harness —which worked on the Oscar-winning animated short Hair Love, as well as the critically lauded series Lazor Wulf —to produce the special. Franklin himself was tapped to direct.

The result is a unique comedy special that builds upon Notaro’s top-notch material, expanding the joke-per-minute ratio of every bit without sacrificing her distinct deadpan delivery. An absurd bit about the Kool-Aid man (remember him?) knocking down an unassuming Kool-Aid drinker’s wall is made all the more vivid by virtue of seeing the character waiting patiently for his big moment, much to his neighbor’s shock and dismay. A story about an evening spent with a tedious elderly woman in Texas gets a jolt of life when we see an animated Notaro struggling to listen to her excruciatingly boring stories. Even Notaro’s deft crowd work takes on a new dimension and shape, with Franklin animating not only Notaro, but the often unintentionally hilarious audience members with whom she interacts.

Notaro was blown away by the animators’ precision: “I’m like, Oh, my gosh, I think that is how I look when I say that kind of thing.” When asked if she had a favorite moment, Notaro couldn’t choose. “I have to be honest, I hate this question,” she said. “It’s so hard…I really feel like all of the artists elevated each story and joke.”

Despite her genuine love of the entire endeavor, Notaro said Drawn had a delicate balance to strike between leaning on the animation concept and letting the jokes stand for themselves. “The animator and Greg, as the director...the great work that they did [was] in not overdoing it,” she said. “They left certain things alone and just let it be what it was as a joke or a story.”

Many of the jokes and stories in Drawn are about illness, and land Notaro in the hospital—a place she is intimately familiar with as a breast cancer survivor who underwent a double mastectomy in the 2010s. “The tits got yanked off a few years ago,” Notaro says in the special, dryly. “When people ask ‘where did your boobs go?’ I truly assume they’re just in an alley, just getting run over. A doctor cut ’em off, tossed them, and out the window.” The darkness of the joke is amplified by the illustration of the scene, complete with cartoon rats fighting over her discarded breasts under a dumpster.

“That’s partly why I called the special Drawn, ” Notaro said, “because aside from the animation and the drawing, the word drawn can also mean you look drawn from being ill or tired or in pain.” The following week, Notaro told me, would mark the ninth anniversary of the day she received her diagnosis, and almost four years since she performed the set animated for the special at L.A. comedy hotspot the Largo.

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“I think it probably would have been in August four years ago,” Notaro said, struggling to remember. “The Jenny Slate story I told because I was thinking [about] how I was officially in remission from cancer. You know, you’re not technically in remission until there’s been no evidence of disease for five years, and I had reached my five-year mark…” Notaro trailed off, running the dates in her head, and then changed her mind. “Maybe it was, I guess, September? September, four years ago.’

Though Notaro appreciates the extra time she’s gotten to spend lately with her wife, Stephanie, and their two preschool-aged sons, she longs to get back onstage and do stand-up again—not just in animated form. She teased that she has a “full-blown tour” coming down the pipeline that’s yet to be announced. Until then, Notaro just wants everyone to stay healthy. “I hope that people get vaccinated and hang out with their families and watch the special, and that they stay healthy and not drawn,” she joked. Notaro herself, by the way, is feeling just fine. “It’s been a long nine years,” she said. “Today, while we’re talking right now, I can say I’m doing well.”

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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 “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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TCB Debriefing 3/12-3/15/24: Tig Notaro, The Feeling That The Time To Do Something Has Passed, Ghosts, Bill Maher, Sometimes I Think About Dying, Owen Wilson, Mark Twain Prize for Humor

1. It has been 12 years since Tig Notaro’s seminal, groundbreaking work LIVE if you can believe it and not only is Tig still very, VERY much with us, but she is still putting out hour after hour of her signature wry, low key brilliance. Take a gander of her latest special  Hello Again (directed by her wife, Stephanie Allynne, an amazing comedic force herself) here . Then, look for it on Amazon Prime beginning Mar. 26th .

2. Raunchy sex comedy can give indie/arthouse and not just be relegated to multiplex or straight to DVD/streaming. Just look at the upcoming (and wondrously titled) The Feeling That The Time for Doing Something Has Passed from newcomer writer/director Joanna Arnow here , then please make plans to go see it in whatever indie/arthouse theater is nearest to you starting Apr. 26th .

3. While Abbott Elementary seems to be the network sitcom of the moment, don’t forget that CBS’ Ghosts is that network’s top comedy (that also commands comparable numbers per episode), which is why its getting a fourth season renewal ( Deadline ).

4. Real Time with Bill Maher is getting reupped for its 23rd and 24th season by HBO ( Variety ). Only Kimmel has had as long a tenure in that realm and it’s interesting to note that Maher almost never gets brought up in the same sentence as him or John Oliver or Seth Meyers, probably having something to do with his own particular brand of sarcastic liberal humor.

5. If you didn’t get a chance to catch  Sometimes, I Think About Dying one of the best understated performances on the big screen in quite some time, surprisingly delivered by Daisy Ridley , along with a wonderful biggest-role-to-date for Dave Merheje since it played in a very small window in limited release, you can now rent or buy it on digital platforms and enjoy the hilarious, the beautiful, and the absurd that are all contained within the mundane minutia, depending on who you’re talking to. Go watch and enjoy it here .

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6. Owen Wilson is going to play a washed up golf pro in his latest comedy ( Golf Digest ), which, come to think of it, Wilson has kind of the perfect look for .

7. The Mark Twain Prize for Humor , while a big night in comedy, is something that’s not that easy to find to watch and often just relegated to watching the acceptance speech from the Kennedy Center’s YouTube channel well after the fact. That’s changing this year as entertainment magnate Kevin Hart is getting honored and it will be able to be streamed on Netflix ( Washington Post ). Odds are you’ll still watch it on YouTube if you can find it there.

8 We’ll leave you with this : LA Marathon & St. Patrick’s Day are both this Sunday, so maybe think about adding about a half hour or more to your travel time if you’re in LA.

TCB Debriefing 2/16/24-2/21/24: High Plains Comedy Festival, Ferris Bueller, Taylor Ortega, Tig Notaro, Extraordinary, Kenny DeForest Fest, Brian Regan

1. Save the date (and get flight and hotel to Denver) for 2024 edition of the High Plains Comedy Festival .

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2. There is a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spin-off in the works following the two valets that joyride in Cam’s Dad’s Ferrari ( THR ). And so, the march of IP continues.

3. Please enjoy this hysterical lil’ gem from Taylor Ortega where she and a long lost brother connect for the first time as, very likely, the weirdest people in each other’s lives.

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4. Take your very first gander at Tig Notaro ‘s latest hour,  Hello Again   here , due out on Amazon Prime on Mar. 26th .

5. Extraordinary kind of lived up to its title in how much of a pleasant, out-of-nowhere, surprise it was (especially since  The Boys seem to dominate the dark comedy, superhero satire genre) and, consequently, we’re looking forward to season 2 due out on Hulu next month on Mar. 6th . Get a taste of what’s to come with Extraordinary ‘s season 2 trailer here .

6. Yes, a great way to honor the memory of Kenny DeForest is a comedy festival, which just so happens to be named Kenny DeForeFest . It’ll be held in Springfield, MO’s Blue Room Comedy Club. Get more details/tickets here .

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7. If you happen to be in Santa Barbara on Feb. 22nd (THAT’S TOMORROW) and want Brian Regan tickets, get at us at [email protected] ASAP.

8. We’ll leave you with this : What is a book about comedy you would want to read? Let us know at that same e-mail address in #7.

The 101 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To in 2023 in No Particular Order

Sorry for the delay and getting this on the 2nd. As always, we wanted to be thorough and not miss out on anything in late December like other lists (and, boy howdy, there were). Anyhow after working tirelessly through New Year’s Day up until now, here is our grand list of the 100 best things in comedy we saw/heard/etc. in 2023, in no particular order.

*An egregious error has been made in not including Gary Gulman’s brilliant new hour special. It’s so egregious that we are, for this one time only, expanding from 100 to 101. May Gary forgive us for the tardy inclusion.

• Jerrod Carmichael turned awards hosting on its head with his performance at The Golden Globes (kind of like he did with his SNL monologue and he should be hosting way more things).
• In addition to stealing every scene that they were in for Joy Ride , Sabrina Wu has more than put themselves on their map as a stand-up, especially with a stand out set on Netflix’s Verified Stand-Up .
• Cole Escola might have just outdone Eddie Murphy in regards to how many characters you can comically play on screen at the same time with their “lost” pilot for the Western “drama”, Our Home Out West .
• Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk has reached Alan Partridge status with  Cunk on Earth .
• Between her interview with George Santos and her seminal collection of essays, Black Friend ,, Ziwe ‘s iconic status continues to grow and Showtime will look more and more stupid for cancelling her show.
• LBJ the Play achieves comedic brilliance while also, somehow, bridging the wide gap between President Lyndon B. Johnson and gender identity.
• The Perfect Amount of Wrong by Mike Bridenstine gives a great portrait of how kindred spirits in a comedy scene, specifically North Chicago alt-comedy, can evolve into some of the most celebrated performers of our time (and make you wonder what the magical ingredients are in 2024 to make that sort of thing happen again).
• The hysterical Rachel Kaly attempted to get back on Conan after appearing as a child with jokes that she wrote when she was a child. The journey was thankfully all captured in the blisteringly hilarious short film ATTN: CONAN O’BRIEN .
• Everyone who got to see Ben Wasserman do what will likely the best show to ever happen at a funeral home/mortuary/cemetery with Live After Death has been forever changed for the better.
• Yorgos Lanthimos outdid himself again with the exquisite, towering, fairy tale satire that is Poor Things featuring a career defining turn from  Emma Stone  (and  Ramy Youssef ).
• Kyle Kinane ‘s Shock and Struts delivered the goods, almost in the way that the truck in a 20+ min. closing story delivered him and his truck out of the desert.
• Michael J. Feldman ‘s solo show  No, But I’m Definitely in a Better Place Than I Been in a Long Time is the solo show we both all deserve (and can revel in as it hits that gallows humor nerve perfectly).
• Addie Weyrich must have set some sort of record by having the overwhelming majority of the audience at The Addie Show individually take part of the show (complete with one of over 100 note cards with specific instructions on it).
• Addi Somekh made us rethink both balloon hats and the world arounds us with Inflatable Planet .
• Sure, Meg Ryan made a return to form in a rom com this year, but  Rye Lane , the feature debut of Raine Allen Miller , in our minds, is the top of the pops for romantic comedies in 2023.
• Mae Martin plus a forest of trees on stage plus Abbi Jacobson directing equals Sap , one of the most dreamy comedy specials in recent memory.
• Mark Vigeant never ceases to amaze with his commitment to the bit, cleverness to go meta, and his vulnerability, all on wondrous display with his solo show, Mark Pleases You .
• Chad Damiani ‘ s half hour of silent improv is a ridiculous treat, even as shirts come off, sweat flies everywhere, and the narrative thread is often illusory.
• Scout Durwood pulls out all the stops for the marvelously off-the-rails cabaret/variety show Everybody Go Go and you should take up every opportunity to see it wherever and whenever you can.
• The songs, the moves, and the sharp comedy of Drew Lausch and Zach Teague are a force to be reckoned with.
• Greg Barris offers both a restorative emotional experience and a deluge of silliness with his latest album  Deep Healing .
• The Other Two will forever be remembered as having some of the very best industry jokes of any comedy of all time. It’s almost worth working some awful Hollywood desk to enjoy every bit on the show.
• In a comedy world of unrelenting truth tellers and edgelords, one Tyler Jackson opts to revel in purely absurd bits and is masterful at it.
• Rachel Mac’s Teacher of the Year makes a case for Rachel Mac being one of the funniest teachers working today, which is saying a lot because, whether you know it or not, many teachers live a double life as a comedian.
• We got witness the top-to-bottom brilliance of Richard Perez with his solo show,  I Have To Do This , and he has made new romances just a little more tolerable/bearable though this collection of (somewhat) grounded rom com vignettes.
• Joe Zimmerman’s special Cult Classic faithfully holds up the torch for classical, observational stand-up comedy without sounding like Seinfeld and being able to find a refreshing angle on killing baby Hitler.
• The fact that Bottoms is the second Emma Seligman/Rachel Sennott feature length film and that the first one was Shiva Baby should prove to you that they have a lot more delightful, hysterical havoc to wreak on the big screen in the not so distant future.
• May your very first special be as on point as Blake Wexler’s Daddy Long Legs .
• Cam Gavinski: how to make everything about you forever and always is yet more evidence of Cam being someone who has so much ambition and vision with their comedy, but has the rare ingenuity to actually pull it off.
• Very few people break down comedy and analyze it at the molecular level quite like Jesse David Fox does. The Vulture editor and long time host of Good One conclusively summarizes all of his succinct and astute observations on comedy in his appropriately titled  Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox .
• Greta Gerwig’s take on Barbie was a feat on so many levels (financially, philosophically, tonally) all while being so damn fun. Don’t be surprised if comedy runs the table again this awards season.
• Being unapologetically genuine and exuberant are a great pairing for comedy and Rachel Coster is a perfect example of that.
• As far as taking big swings for specials, very few swung as big as Alison Stevenson with making up a streaming service for her special VUBITV+ Presents: Alison Stevenson: H*rny B*tch: A Comedy Special to “premiere” on and do a bunch of BDSM bits on top of it. It’s such a good time because of it.
• Tina Friml is a shining gem amidst a field of angrily smoldering embers and you should go seek out her stand-up whenever you can.
• It’s called Hell , but Chris Fleming and his groovy attire front what might be the silliest special on a major streaming platform. Kudos to Fleming keeping true to being utterly ridiculous.
• The imagination of Sam Walt Jones is wonderfully bigger than most as shown, just this year, by doing an entire live parody series of Survivor  that actually spans several weeks and feels like a splendidly mutated  Wonderland  version of the show.
• LA got a wonderful addition to its scene this year with one Katherine Blanford whose warmth and cleverness ought to see her go real far in Tinseltown.
• The sultry voice of Leslie Liao blends comedically so well with her frank observations about herself and it has been a true joy to see her rise out of the ranks.
• Langston Kerman and David Gborie seem to be able to do no wrong with their podcast My Momma Told Me even though it’s dedicated to parsing out (and “legitimately” considering) some of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories out there.
• Richelle Meiss had a hit on her hands with an unauthorized musical parody of  The Bachelor and she did an equally pitch perfect send up of Real Housewives this year. We would love if she just took on all trash TV with her musical parody prowess.
• Moses Storm got back to his more experimental comedy roots this year and devised a solo show,  Perfect Cult , where he created a cult with the audience. Storm’s mixing of his own experiences, which, in turn, inform how he creates this in-show cult is so fun that you might just want to follow Storm wherever he goes.
• Veronica Osorio put all of her being, experiences, desires, and penchant for mischief into her Venezuelan Shamanic clown show, Medicine Woman , and made for one of the most enchanting, mystifying, original solo shows we saw all year long.
• Kyle Ayers is unfortunately afflicted with Trigeminal Neuralgia (AKA “Suicide Disease”) and yet, through his own indomitable comedic will, made a non-stop laughs solo show, Hard to Say .
• Beth Stelling ‘s latest special If You Didn’t Want Me Then is so undeniably good (kind of like  Girl Daddy ) it should be the calling card for Beth to be in anything and everything that she wants to be.
• Kristoffer Borgli ‘s Dream Scenario is one of the most radical movies of the year and did so by having Nicholas Cage play one of his most unassuming roles in his entire career. For our money, it’s the best and most original comedy about dreams since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind .
• Julia Sweeney ‘s story about the death of her mom, when we heard it at UnCabaret , is one of the best, purest distillations of a comedian’s archetypal relationship with their parents.
• So much comedy on the big screen this year had wonderful bite to it, but American Fiction might have some of the most devastatingly funny lines delivered perfectly by Jeffrey Wright and crafted by Cord Jefferson .
• Mo Welch went above and beyond in going meta and daring with Dad Jokes , a half stand-up special/half docu-special with super dark dad jokes and then trying to reconnect with your estranged dad.
• Alex Edelman infiltrating a White Nationalist meeting as a Jew and turning it into Just For Us is every bit as illuminating and hilarious and resonant as you think it could be (and then some).
• As one can see from Live from the Big Dog , the comedic power of Blair Socci will not be denied.
• The Academy Museum’s exhibit John Waters: Pope of Trash is an ornate tribute to the auteur and one of the best displays of camp cinema/humor/etc. we’ve ever seen.
• How Hasan Minhaj handled the controversy around his New Yorker interview highlighted so much about comedy that people should never forget .
• Joe Pera’s first hour special Slow & Steady is a perfect distillation of Joe’s calming and politely off-kilter comedy that is the perfect salve for these times. Also, Joe has the best audience cutaway to the security guard of any special ever.
• LA now has its own, postmodern bouffant troupe Il Fungo and, as a postmodern bouffant troupe is wont to do, they bridge the sublime and the silly wonderfully.
• While comedians riffing off each other is well-mined territory in podcasts, Mae Martin, Fortune Feimster, and Tig Notaro hanging out on The Handsome Podcast has a magical quality to it.
• Julian Velard has the most amazing existential song about being a piano player being asked to play Billy Joel’s Piano Man in his marvelous musical solo show Julian Velard… Is in the Middle of Something .
• John Early is up to his meta hijinks in his HBO special Now More Than Ever that dresses up his hilarious stand-up in the middle of a classic rock doc. Also, bonus points go to John for the way he points out his parents in this hour
• A very special Green Room with Paul Provenza happened this year as it was all in Paul’s backyard and showed how comedy can shine the through darkest of traumas with Doug Stanhope, Andy Andrist, Kristine Levine, Annie Lederman, and Henry Phillips.
• Though Demi Adejuyigbe isn’t doing his September videos anymore, he is still dishing out brilliance in other forms as he did in 2023 with his declaration for 2023 Halloween costumes .
• For all the talk about The Boys , best not sleep on a UK satire on super powers from Emma Morgan , Extraordinary , which is decidedly less explicit and (maybe more) charming, in the keep-calm-and-carry-on British manner.
• As far as a classical looking and sounding comedy special goes in 2023, it doesn’t get much better than Nate Craig: Live at the Green Mill .
• For a show that’s so unpredictable and existentially rapturous, let’s all hold hands and take a moment for the final season of How to With John Wilson coming to a close last year.
• NYC comedy darling James Hamilton put out one hell of a debut album with I Don’t Deserve These Deals ; the sort of album that makes you wonder how wrong the Grammys are about their nominations for Best Comedy Album.
• Thank goodness for the doc following Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett ‘s fake strongman duo Chop & Steele and capturing how you might have to go, legally, to defend looking stupid on TV for fun.
• Let the hilarious weirdness of the life of one Jessica Sele wash over you with her debut album Weird Vibes .
• The new, new, new, NEW Futurama , believe it or not, is pretty damn good (and fully aware of how many times it has been revived).
• Albert Brooks: Defending My Life is a great and necessary reminder of how much Albert Brooks is a comedy pioneer as a performer/actor/director as well as a touching tribute from one of his best friends, Rob Reiner .
• Joe Kwaczala not only delivers on his album’s title of Funny Songs & Sketches , but cleverly delivers a grand variety of ingenious, innovative bits that points to Joe perhaps deserving a full on sketch show somewhere.
• While Barbie rode high this year, let us not forget the R-rated comedy of 2023, Joy Ride (that also a touching story about identity, adoption, and taking the baton from  Crazy Rich Asians and running wild with it).
• Harley Quinn , now in its 4th season , continues to be a bright, hysterical, subversive light in the imploding world of comic book based IP.
• The NYC branch of Comedians You Should Know really made moves this year and one of those moves was one of its heads, David Drake , putting out his very first special that hit the perfect mark of self-deprecation with That’s It .
• At this point, you’d wonder how John Oliver could possibly up the ante with his prank calls to action with Last Week Tonight. Then, John went ahead and fixed a New Zealand bird election for the Pūteketeke and gave us an answer.
• If you want to see victory and self-acceptance and healing and an irresistibly funny solo show, look no further than Jackie Johnson: How To Get a Second Husband .
• Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas’ Civil Dead is a charming lowkey twist on what it means to be a ghost and/or the buddy comedy.
• Protected Under Parody might be the best sketch show going in LA even though it happens in the bar area of a hip movie theater.
• If you don’t already know the name Steph Tolev , you best know it now and remember it fully. The self-ascribed “Queen of Filth” is playing all over the country now and she’s as good at going blue and working a crowd as anyone out there.
• Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson made one of the most unhinged, unapologetically queer comedy of the year with Dicks: the Musical , doing A24 proud for their first musical. Let it be known that 2023 could be called the “Year of Dicks and Bottoms”.
• Countless hours of comedic observations have been dished out about generational differences, but the amazing Jenny Zigrino has some of the best and sharpest jokes in that realm in her special Jen-Z .
• Marc Maron pulled a hat trick with his latest hour in offering one of his most touching, darkest, and best specials yet with From Bleak to Dark .
• The only saving grace of Mike Lindell existing is that James Adomian keeps getting to play him brillliantly on Kimmel as he did throughout the year and even over this past holiday season.
• Even though Molly Gordon, Ben Platt, and Nick Lieberman had a touching, laugh riot of a tribute to theater kids everywhere with Theater Camp , this feature debut of Gordon and Lieberman is the definitive mockumentary of 2023.
• If you’ve mowed through dozens of specials and wondered if comedy has become stale/complacent/hollow, get a shot in the arm with Ben Roy ‘s latest hour Hyena and rest easy (after laughing a whole damn lot).
• Brad Wenze l and his latest hour, joke. joke. joke. shows that the art form of the one liner, a corner of comedy that often seems to be of yesteryear, is alive and well (and can thrive in the 2020s).
• All hail the best sketch show on television, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson , full stop. No further explanation should be needed.
• Her book Raw Dog , in our minds, has elevated Jamie Loftus into the status of comedy luminary (and is the sort of humor that the Mark Twain Prize actually seeks to honor if you read the award’s mission statement).
• The series of IG reels/ Tik Tok It’s Not an Issue with Ever Mainard and their Mom on is simply blissful ridiculousness between a mom and their non-binary adult child.
• Wes Anderson retains his pristine symmetrical comedy auteur status with his most self-reflexive (and cheeky) work yet, Asteroid City .
• If they were a wing of a modern art museum dedicated to video art as dramedy, it should have the entire season of Carol & The End of the World playing on a loop. Hats off to Dan Guterman for creating a beautiful existential valediction to 2023 in the form of an adult animated series.
• As time passes, the comedic observations about pandemic times have become more and more worn, but such original and insightful and personal voices like those of Hari Kondabolu make for something special as he did with Vacation Baby .
• It might be strange to have a veritable set list as the title of your special, but England, Weed & The Rest from Gareth Reynolds belies his expert skills, especially when it comes to crowd work and making fun of being English. Salutations to Birthday Chicken .
• While working the road can wear on the psyche and will of a comedian, some get energized by the challenge and Tom Thakkar is clearly having so much damn fun playing clubs night in and night out wherever he is. That energy (along with thoughtful material about race and politics) is captured wonderfully on Thakkar Noir .
• Andy Iwancio not only has some of the very best trans jokes (go figure that the best trans jokes would come from a trans person) in her album Better Living Through Femmistry , but joyfully gets rambunctious about the recording of her album during the actual recording of it.
• The genre mash-up of horror and comedy (and your whole outlooking on existence and meaning) might be changed forever (and for the better) because of Ari Aster ‘s Beau Is Afraid .
• Sunanda ‘s solo show dedicated to their love of Britney Spears and their journey to self-actualization from it, the aptly names Sunanda Loves Britney ,
• Comedy in pathos might have been best displayed in 2023 in the latest collaboration of Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti with The Holdovers .
• The trios of Chris Estrada/Frankie Quiñones/Michael Imperioli and Jake Weisman/Matt Ingebretson/Pat Bishop continue on their path to making one of the best comedies of this decade, balancing satirical subversion and the ludicrous all set in a grounded East LA with season 2 of This Fool .
• The third season of the modern day indigenous dramedy Reservations Dogs completes a wondrous arc and achieves its best episodes yet making for a rare instance of a TV series getting to do what it set out to do.
• The fact that Jackie Kashian made a special using the rearview camera of a car is so funny on its own and then there’s the fact that Jackie is also one of the funniest comedians working today that make Looking Back special.
• Whether you go by laughs per minute or just gut feeling, Jay Jurden is indisputably one of the best stand-ups on any stage these days. Just watch his Don’t Tell set, if you haven’t already, and you’ll see what we’re saying.
• Even though she might be against the organized religious aspects of it, let’s canonize Maria Bamford as a saint for her brilliant special Maria Bamford: Local Act and hit book Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult .
• Gary Gulman is a paragon of the art form of comedy in every single facet of it since he has, perhaps, the deepest understanding of the craft of stand-up, and that has been the case with Gary for a long time. His latest hour, Born on 3rd Base , might be his very best work yet.*

TCB Debriefing 11/24/23: Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Tig Notaro/Colbert, Hasan Minhaj, YouTube Fact Checking

1. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life , the Rob Reiner documentary tribute to his dear friend and certified comedy genius, Albert Brooks , is truly illuminating and a sensational reminder of how absolutely, devastatingly funny and original Brooks was. As far as alternative comedy goes, you could draw a line from Ernie Kovacs to Albert Brooks to almost anything off-beat done on stage today and this doc makes emphatically sure that you know that and will never forget it. Required viewing for anyone into comedy or even likes laughing, even just a little bit. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life   is streaming now on Max.

2. Speaking of “defending my life”, Hasan Minhaj just added a bunch of dates for his  Off With His Head  tour. Get your tix at hasanminhaj.com .

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3. Tig Notaro was in peak Tig form on Colbert . Please enjoy.

4. We were watching this Don’t Tell set from Malik Elassal and noticed that YouTube has tacked on a Wikipedia embed for the page about how the Flat Earth is a scientifically disproven conception based off of the title of the video “Woke Flat Earthers”. We have no doubt comedians will figure a way to twist this new move to some hysterical result (and perhaps go overboard with it in the process).

5.  We’ll leave you with this : Can we not do a bunch of bits about saying “happy holidays” this year? There are plenty of actual wars going on versus the fake “War on Christmas”.

Pick of the Day: Tig Notaro: Hello Again [Taping] (in NYC) 6/10

Tig Notaro is taping a new special, which should be the only copy that you’d need to promote the two shows that she’s taping live at Brooklyn’s very own Kings Theatre.

In case you need a bit more:

Notaro has been an astounding singular voice in comedy as well as an inspiration and generation defining artist just from her impromptu album, Tig Notaro Live . Also, she’s taken on quite the on-camera career spanning Star Trek, fighting zombies in Vegas, and hosting her own talk show where she has no idea who her very famous guests are. That’s just a quick crash course in how marvelous Tig is as a comedian and performer.

Oh yeah, she also has the best bit using the stool in all of stand-up comedy .

So, do not miss the taping of her latest special, Hello Again , set for Sat. Jun. 10th at 7PM ET & 10PM ET at Kings Theatre . Tickets start at $60 and you can (and very much should) get them here .

Pick of the Day: Tig Notaro: Hello Again (in LA) 5/14

Simultaneously a calming, yet silly, yet also so cathartically honest voice in comedy, the one and only Tig Notaro is back out on the road for the very aptly named Hello Again tour. There is no one quite like Tig who now sports one of the most unique presences in comedy history with the frosting of having been a Chief Engineer on Star Trek: Discovery and a badass helicopter pilot in Army of the Dead . We have no doubt that the stories from either production, hopefully stories that she winds all of us through in this new hour, will be something that pretty much just Tig and Tig alone could come up with.

Tig’s return to LA on  Hello Again  will be a very special evening at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in DTLA on Sat. May 14th at 7PM PT. This particular stop on the tour will double as a record release party and that is double the reason to go get tickets starting at $39.50 (plus fees) right here .

Get a First Look at Tig Notaro’s Animated HBO Stand-up Special “Drawn”

Pretty much anything and everything that could have been tried to make a comedy special in the last year and a half has been thought of and tried. Outdoors, in front of parked cars, w/no audience, over Zoom, facing TV screens, etc. One of the more ambitious ones has been animating an entire stand-up comedy special as Tig Notaro has done with her latest hour due at HBO.

There have been instances of bits being animated throughout the years, but a whole special is something different altogether.

Very appropriately called Tig Notaro: Drawn , Tig’s wonderfully dry and honest sense of humor gets manifested in vibrant colors as a series of cartoons and the animated version of her on stage with an animated audience. Just thinking about the possibility of that, we now want to see animated versions of her stories about playing Vegas and running into Taylor Dayne.

Get your first sense of what Tig and HBO have up their sleeve with this trailer here . Look for the premiere on July 24th at 10PM on HBO and then streaming on HBO Max.

Tig Notaro Set to Make Comedy History Again With First Fully Animated Comedy Special

Tig Notaro has already done enough to cement herself in comedy history.

Her album, Live , might be one of the most audacious, daring, and truthful comedy albums of all time as it is simply a recording of her set at Largo where she revealed she had breast cancer after having C. diff after having her mother pass away and going through a break up.

Also, Tig did one of our favorite late night sets with performing one bit involving the squeaking of a stool as it got gently dragged across the stage.

In short, Tig is magical in such a beautifully unassuming and very truthful way.

Now, she is set to make even more comedy history as her latest comedy special will be completely animated. There has been plenty of stand-up bits that have been animated and Picture This! has been a great example of the marriage between animation and live stand-up. Yet, to our knowledge, there hasn’t been an entire stand-up special that has been animated. Tig might be a wonderful candidate for it as this announcement already sparked what an animated version of her Taylor Dayne or Vegas stories might look like if drawn up.

In any case, we shall get to see what that might be and Tig set another comedy milestone this Summer on HBO, with the guiding EP hand of Ellen DeGeneres.

. @TigNotaro returns to @HBO this summer with the first-ever fully animated stand up special, executive produced by @TheEllenShow . The special will air on HBO and will be available to stream on @HBOMax : https://t.co/kUAhSTzpoz pic.twitter.com/Pj0VEjlpDL — HBO PR (@HBOPR) May 3, 2021

Pick of the Day: The Official Friends Reunion with Tig, Kyle and David 8/11

The very funny trio of Tig Notaro, Kyle Dunnigan, and David Huntsberger were once known and beloved as the podcast Professor Blastoff . Since then, all three have gone to their own comedy paths including Tig Notaro: Live , @kyledunnigan , and Huntsberger’s own late night show.

Without any real idea of when they can get back to a lot of what they used to do/make their bread and butter on, they’ve opted to have a “friends reunion” of a kind via a live-stream. It has been years since this has happened and it’s a rare present for Professor Blastoff fans or comedy fans in general.

The Official Friends Reunion with Tig, Kyle and David is set for Tues. Aug. 11th at 6PM PT/9PM ET . Tickets are $13.50 (portion of ticket sales will go to COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund) and you can and should get them here .

When Tig Notaro does stand-up, you can always count on Tig to playfully deconstruct various stories of her life at the moment in a low key, but thoroughly enjoyable fashion. In fact, she might be the best at doing so as exhibited in her latest hour that just dropped on Netflix, Happy To Be Here .

Tig is also pretty great at pranking the audience/crowd/viewer and keeping a prank going and going and going. From dragging a stool across the stage for a bit to falsely dismounting, she has a knack for innocently hooking the audience into a sense of “is-she-or-isn’t-kidding” and playing it out to maximum effect.

In closing this special, Tig does what will undoubtedly become one of her signature bits in this regard. In fact, as stated in the headline, it’s a legitimate closer in a stand-up special (unlike we’ve seen in quite some time) that might be the best in recent memory.

Go watch Tig Notaro: Happy To Be Here  now on Netflix and see what we’re talking about.

Watch Trailer for Tig Notaro’s Latest Hour “Happy To Be Here”

Tig Notaro   is in rarefied hour in that we’d love to hear her talk about pretty much anything for an hour. 

Thusly, we’re excited for later this month (Tuesday, May 22nd) when Happy To Be Here , Tig’s latest hour special, hits Netflix.

Until then, you can get a taste of it with this trailer .

Tig Notaro’s New Special “Happy To Be Here” To Be Released on May 22nd on Netflix

“Just announced – Tig’s new comedy special “Happy To Be Here” will be available May 22nd, exclusively on @NetflixIsAJoke!”

-@tignotaro

Right about now (or anytime really) is a great time for a new hour special from the one and only Tig Notaro . Thankfully, that time is less than a month away. 

Mark your calendars/set a reminder on your phone/etc.

“7-inches for Planned Parenthood” Will Be a Special Vinyl Record Box Set Featuring Great Comedy and Music in Support of Planned Parenthood

Trump has let the states decide whether they want to defund Planned Parenthood or not. So, now, so many people are stepping up to have the back of Planned Parenthood . 

So, to support the cause, a special collector’s box set of vinyl records featuring the comedy of Sarah Silverman, Aparna Nancherla, Jenny Slate, Margaret Cho, Tig Notaro, Janeane Garofalo, Pete Holmes, and Zach Galifianakis in addition to music from some of the musicians around like St. Vincent, Sleater-Kinney, Björk, Matt Berninger, Elliott Smith, Sharon Van Etten, Mitski, Feist, and Chvrches will be released soon. All of the comedy comes from Largo ’s archives by the way.

Also, we like that the folks behind this project made this note: 

Do we know there’s a joke in the name? We do. We hope the title evokes the rich history of 7-inch vinyl records as a medium for protest music and resistance.

Pre-sale date has yet to be announced, but you can get more info here .

Boston Calling Announces Its First Comedy Line-Up

For years now, Boston Calling has been a big music shindig for Boston not unlike Outside Lands for SF, Bonnaroo for Tennessee, SXSW for Austin, etc. 

Like those festivals, it’s now featuring a dedicated comedy portion of the festival billed as a  “A Comedy Experience Hosted by Hannibal Buress” . In fact, look at the flyer and you’ll see it’s a pretty nice weekend all around that they’ve got lined up. 

Tickets range from $99 for Single Day GA to $199 for 3 Day GA and $199 for Single Day VIP to $529 for 3 VIP.

Get more details and tickets here .

San Francisco Is Getting Another Big Comedy Festival This Year with Comedy Central’s Very First “Clusterfest”

At the beginning of the year, San Francisco always has one of the biggest comedy festivals in the world, SF Sketchfest .

Just announced today, SF will be getting another giant comedy festival in the summertime, specifically June 2nd-4th, brought to you by Comedy Central.

The first ever Clusterfest  has a gigantic line-up of the sort proportions and depth that Comedy Central can summon. It’s also the flip of most big time music and arts festival in that it’s mostly comedy with a bit of music as opposed to there being a comedy tent and lots and lots and lots of music a la Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, etc. (Note: producers of both those festivals are involved here). See the line-up below or in this glitterbomb filled announcement video here .

Tickets/passes go on sale this Thursday, March 2nd  here . They range from $199.50 earlybird pass-$599.50 VIP Pass.

Please Enjoy This Dark Comedy Short from Stephanie Allynne “The Fun Company”

Stephanie Allynne’s particular brand of dark comedy is great because of a certain grounded reality that it operates in. This way, the humor seems even a bit darker, in a good way of course. 

You can see for yourself in Stephanie’s latest short, The Fun Company , which you could think of as a sort of slightly more sinister version of Don’t Think Twice from the point of Mike Birbiglia’s character Miles.

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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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'Tig Notaro: Hello Again': Release date, where to watch and stream the new comedy special

T he Grammy and Emmy-award nominated comedian Tig Notaro returns to the stage and to screens this month in a brand-new comedy special.

Notaro's new one-hour comedy special, "Tig Notaro: Hello Again," will premiere on Prime Video this week in more than 240 countries.

This is the first comedy special since 2021's "Tig Notaro: Drawn" on HBO Max for the comedian, actress, director and writer best known for her deadpan-style of comedy.

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According to a release from Prime Video , "Tig Notaro: Hello Again" is 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."

Here's what to know about the "Tig Notaro: Hello Again" special and how to watch.

When does 'Tig Notaro: Hello Again' come out?

"Tig Notaro: Hello Again" is a one-hour comedy special that will premiere in more than 240 countries and territories on March 26.

How to watch 'Tig Notaro: Hello Again'

The special will be available to stream on Prime Video .

It was produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Above Average, with Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne, Marc Lieberman and Ally Engelberg serving as executive producers. The special is directed by Stephanie Allynne.

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Tig Notaro is heading back to Amazon — and live action — for her latest comedy special. Prime Video will debut Tig Notaro: Hello Again this March.

The new hour marks Notaro’s first project at Amazon since the end of her two-season Prime Video comedy One Mississippi in 2017 and her first flesh-and-blood taping in nearly six years. Her last special, Tig Notaro: Drawn , made history as the first fully animated stand-up special when it landed on HBO in 2022.

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The streamers are absolutely hammering their slates with stand-up specials this spring. Perhaps it’s just a continuation of the years-long trend or maybe it has something to do with the runway cleared by the writers and actors strikes of 2024, but the announcements are coming on an almost daily basis. Taylor Tomlinson, Jenny Slate, Rory Scovel and Ramy Youseff are just a few of the comics to announce new hours in recent weeks.

The fact that Notaro takes relatively long between releasing specials might have something to do with the comic’s aggressive acting slate. She appeared in season three of The Morning Show, earning a SAG Award nomination for ensemble alongside Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, Star Trek: Discovery and features Your Place or Mine , We Have a Ghost and Army of the Dead .

Hello Again , which was directed by Stephanie Allynne, Notaro’s wife, will debut in more than 240 countries and territories on Prime Video on Mar. 26. It is produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Above Average.

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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.

Greg Barris is an American Comedy Scene Darling and served as a staple in New York’s downtown stand-up scene for years. A frequent Time Out New York Critic’s Pick, much loved by BrooklynVegan and hailed as "Excellent" by The New Yorker, Greg created and hosted the 20 year long-running comedy variety show "Heart of Darkness". Greg and guitarist / visual artist Dima Drjuchin (Corrupt Autopilot) teamed up to form the Wigmaker's Son. Together they created a Zappa-meets-Lonely Island pop fantasy comedy album, ‘Greatest Tits’ which also featured friend Reggie Watts. Greg released his debut stand-up album 'Shame Wave' on aspecialthing Records and will be releasing a new comedy album on the label in the near future. Greg now lives L.A. where you can find him on stages across the city and beyond.

“Barris’s show features crazed comedy, live music and bizarro antics - a mixture that landed it its 20th sold-out show in a row in Brooklyn.” — LA Times

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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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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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