Review | Tig Notaro: Hello Again - Future of the Force

“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: Drawn 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 seriesOne Mississippi in 2017. Tig Notaro: Hello Again releases tomorrow on Prime Video.

DAILY LIFE

Tig Notaro, credit: Emilio Madrid, 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!

VERDICT

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.