![]() ![]() He is fantastic, both inexpressibly sad and emotionless. Its greatest asset in doing so is John Rothman, who plays Tig’s stepfather, mourning his wife by getting increasingly pernickety about light-switch etiquette. That is the level the show tends to operate on: the unspeakably real. It is beyond morbid, yet there is a dark humour to the scene. Then other giggling dead women come over and join the party – they were date raped, gang-banged – all laying out their blankets for the picnic. In another show this would be played cutesy but it gets dark quickly: her mother had a relationship with her married art teacher, Tig was molested by her grandfather. They start talking about their first sexual experiences. In one scene, Tig visits her mother’s grave, only to be visited by her vision. This show is very closely based on some aspects of her life (the lead character is called Tig and the main love interest is played by her wife Stephanie Allynne) but it also moves beyond her story, to universal themes about stoicism, homecoming and family secrets. It’s a vein of comedy that Notaro has honed and perfected in the years since that set. The set was discussed everywhere from the New York Times to This American Life, and Notaro exploded. Hours after the cancer diagnosis, she went on stage at Largo and performed a different kind of standup: terrifyingly personal, with much of the humour often coming from the implausibility of this string of events. But in 2012, she was beset by a series of unspeakable tragedies: she contracted a serious bacterial infection, her mother died, she was dumped by her girlfriend and found out she had breast cancer. ![]() For years, she was known in standup circles for being amusingly deadpan both on and off stage. If that all sounds a bit heavy, just you wait – it often goes 10 minutes without a joke.Ĭreated by anyone else this show would be too maudlin to bear, but in Tig Notaro’s hands it’s hilarious. One Mississippi Amazon Prime In the last few years there’s been a tendency for TV comedies to deal with more serious subject matter, but One Mississippi takes the sadcom to the next level – a quasi-autobiographical show which deals with death, child abuse, mastectomy and a rare intestinal disease. Created by anyone else this show would be too maudlin to bear, but in Tig Notaro’s hands it’s hilarious … One Mississippi.
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