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No One Ends a Comedy Show Like Tig Notaro
In her specials and albums, the stand-up constantly pushes the boundaries of what audiences might expect from a closing joke.
With her new Amazon Prime special, Hello Again, released March 26, Notaro once again adds to her résumé of closer innovations, so we figured we’d take the opportunity to revisit the comedian’s previous experiments with this device. (At one point, we see her flipping through a binder of burned CDs with entries labeled “Indigo Girls” and “Taylor Dayne.”) Then there is the song itself, which plays on repeat throughout the bit and creates the feeling of a big ending, not unlike the crowd singing “Happy Birthday” on Good One. After several minutes of this, Notaro tells a story about a celebrity-packed party she attended, at which all eyes were on Adele while famous musicians took turns getting onstage and entertaining the other guests by playing short sets.
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