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- Judar_Spitzer October 2012
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Tig's New Album!!!
That crazy-sounding show everyone was talking about, it turns out it was recorded and Louis C.K. is releasing it!
Tig Notaro's second album!
$5 only!!!!
www.louisck.net
!!!!!!!
Tig Notaro's second album!
$5 only!!!!
www.louisck.net
!!!!!!!
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Tig Notaro is one of our greatest living comedians. She's so, so funny and good and such a wonderful weirdo. We saw her perform many months ago, and it turned out to be the last show of her tour--she had to cancel the tour because she developed this crazy peumonia for which she was ultimately hospitalized. In the hospital they gave her intense antibiotics to combat the pneumonia, and then due to the antibiotics wiping out all her internal bacteria she got this weird disease I don't remember the name of, that ended up being way way worse than the pneumonia. Due to this disease, she lost 25 pounds, was re-hospitalized for like weeks or something, and was kind of literally on death's doorstep. Finally discharged, looking like a skeleton, kind of starting to get on the mend, her mom abruptly slipped and fell and DIED, just like that. So then Tig had to go clean out her mom's house while barely being alive herself, shambling around dealing with grief and sorrow, and while THAT was going on, she suddenly got diagnosed with breast cancer in both breasts. Shortly after her diagnosis, she performed standup at Largo (I think), and actually announced her diagnosis and went deep and super raw about her mom and illness and death and dying. Apparently it was this transcendent show, like no one could believe how awesome it was. Louis C.K. described it as one of the greatest comedy performances he'd ever seen in his life. I read about it and was devastated that I would never get to experience this show, but it turns out someone did record it, and now Louis C.K. has released it as her second album and I hope it sells 10 million copies
She's going to be on an upcoming ep of TAL talking about her insane year.
Her first album, Good One, is awesome. I own it on vinyl (COMEDY VINYL, HOLLA!)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/good-one/id452315915
Here is a direct link to buy the new Tig set from Louis' site:
https://buy.louisck.net/purchase/tig-notaro-live
I felt so bad because she is hilarious and I was totally a dumb crowd loudmouth in that moment.
I love when a comedian is so good at dealing with hecklers. She is so good at it!!!!!!!
Can't believe you were That Guy, dalas!!!!! Amazing
I like getting spanked by a good performer just as much as I love heckling.
So rewarding when you see they can truly handle the stage.
So rewarding when you act like a jerk and divert attention away from its rightful owner (last P-Girls show I went to... oh I had them laughin'..... and that man didn't know it was me!!)
That was the only time I have successfully dealt with a heckler. The other times have been demoralizing (one ended with me puking in the street)
The heckler interrupted twice ("Do something funny!") during a somewhat conceptual (and quite funny) but and the performer was briefly thrown and it was such a bummer. I was so pumped that Ian booted the heckler.
To think you can interrupt a carefully programmed performance and make it better is arrogant and disrespectful. If you went to the performance sincerely just take it in. If you went to the performance insincerely you shouldn't be there.
I've seen it done well, and I'm still somewhat known to make myself heard every once in a blue moon if a friend of mine is performing (slightly different rules).
My first hunch is that there is a big difference because when you heckle, you can be extremely visible. You have to be willing to bear the brunt of an actual mob's hatred and potential real violence. Commenting on the net is the bastion of cowards.
Wanting to be a part of the performance
Wanting part of the attention
Loving something so much you want to ruin it (sobbing fan at CBB; Lennon assassination)
YIKE
When friends are performing it's very different. Then it's like, you ARE part of the performance and you DO make it better. The performer knows you and knows what you are doing, so it's not the same.
That is such a good question about internet commenting
we have also discussed why comedy seems to draw so much more heckling than other kinds of performances. Music performances are not heckled with the regularity of standup...and like, if you go to see Chuck D give a talk about rap and politics nobody's heckling. People don't heckle at plays.
??
People used to heckle at public executions
i've definitely been heckled as a musican and seen heckling but it just does not hold a candle to the shit that goes on in the comedy world. Dark!
I have this one friend who can "throw" her voice and sound like a man. And if you looked her way, she looks so inconspicious no one ever knows she is a little devil. My bf told me about all the hell he raised in college, and when he got caught one time the janitor was like "it's always the quiet ones you gotta watch out for."
My favorite part was that young, Canadian heckler, who, when interviewed, explained that the reason it was important for him to "encourage" the performer by demanding that they "be funnier" (much like Steve's heckler above), was that Jamie Kennedy had been on TV. So in this young man's mind, he was having a direct impact on televised entertainment by heckling a live show. A interesting view into the mind of the heckler.
It's so special, I'm so thankful to modern technology for its being recorded. I love near the end when she seems to sort of doubt herself, and then the guy yells that "this is fucking amazing" and everyone cheers for so long. Poor Tig going out there so addled and not wanting to make jokes, and ending up doing something so real and powerful yet also funny. I love SO MUCH when something can fully confront the fucking dark brutality of life, the crushing ludicrousness of modern bureaucracy/life/death/suffering, and yet also somehow be binding and inspirational and funny. My favorite of all states.
"Was the area around your room quiet at night, or could you hear the 12 hours of your daughter sobbing and telling you things she wished she'd been brave enough to tell you when you were alive?"
by far my favorite heckle
that wasn't me but it was my husband