sandover Review of Tig Notaro: Hello Again

Tig Notaro: Hello Again (2024 TV Special)

Did you know the castle was in need of a lesbian fool?

[30 March 2024]

I had previously seen Tig Notaro in the late night TV circuit or whatever, couldn't recall, but said I'd try it, in need of a lesbian spin on wit. Nothing of the sort happened here, except in promise, before spiralling down to name-dropping privilege: Oprah is literally the final word of the show. A story on what she once misheard in Reese Withered Spoon's office establishes Tig's privilege: would we really care for a story whose ramifications are not beyond our everyday horizon if name-dropping would not separate us common folk at the same time it traps us to the way Tig plays the lesbian card as commonsensical commonness - don't be put off by the fact of namedropping, I am one of you in my comical failings! But the obnoxious truth is, as Oprah is elevated center-field at the end, as the self-righteous sun of America she always is, Tig Notaro slips into her privileged orbit seamlessly, to a sold-out, or sell-out, depending on how celebrity bends your present, theater audience.