I went to An Evening of a Thousand Scowls on Saturday, which was a comedy fundraiser for 826 Valencia. One of the comics -- Tig Notaro -- was hilarious. She's like Maria Bamford and Mary Louise Parker combined. Her comedy was super dry and quiet and slow, kinda like a deadpan friend. She started her routine by quietly taking the mic off its stand, then joking about comedians that hold the stand on the diagonal or move the stand out way out of the way. Then she started to move the stand to the far edge of the stage, and then eventually she moved it off the stage into the audience because "We need to clear the stage. My comedy is too gigantic." It just got better from there. In conclusion: Highly recommended.
Bonus: Fred Willard!
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5 comments:
omg we are SO having a party and putting tig on.
Yuck. Leslie is trying to help her pitiful friend out. Tig drives dangerously and possibly takes money from benefits and puts them up her nose.
Don't have her anywhere near your party.
If you have her at your party she will accuse you of invading her space and she will press charges of stalking. Don't do it.
Party's off you guyz. NOBODY drives dangerously to my home.
Tig is a pathological liar and all around dangerous and depressing individual.
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