Tig Notaro: Drawn

She is usually rather low key, sardonic, and dry. And that works for her. But until know I have never fallen off the couch laughing watching her stand up. Her opening story about her wisdom teeth I was laughing so hard I had to pause and calm down, the encounter with Jenny Slate was almost as funny and then the one with the Dolly Parton Song... I highly recommend this. It's Tig At Her Best So Far!

The animated approach fit well with Tig Notaro's style, which is more about cerebral storytelling than over the top stage antics or exaggerated body language. The flow through different styles complimented the flow through different stories quite well. If you don't like Tig's stand up, or various styles of animation to begin with, maybe it isn't for you. I enjoyed it start to finish. Not the funniest thing I've ever seen, but solidly entertaining.

I really liked Notaro's Cancer stand-up special a few years back, but haven't seen her do anything of any real interest since, and this new show is no exception. Supposedly the first full length animation of a stand-up show, I'm really struggling to understand why it was made this way: Could they not afford to film the gig? Does she not like looking at herself? Did they need to dub in fake applause? What was the point?

The animation itself is awfully generic and unfunny, the kind of thing that would usually be used in a cereal advert, and the attempts to amplify humorous moments only weaken them throughout.

The show is basically just a few longwinded observations and shaggy dog stories that are sometimes mildly interesting as tales in themselves (the one about wisdom teeth was best) but aren't really very funny at all, just longwinded remarks over coffee. It feels a lot more like a friend telling you about their day, rather than a professional comedian seeking to entertain you or communicate anything of interest. As some kind of cut-price Spalding Gray, I guess it's not a total failure, but as comedy it's pretty poor. Would be nice for her to try work in some jokes in future.

This had a lot of attention to detail and was well played out. The marriage between Notaro's stories and humor and the different animation styles was blended together pretty well. Pretty funny anecdotes from Notaro and very good visual comedy from all the animations.

How are people not finding this funny? I tuned in half way through and have laughed at every story. I really enjoy dry humor and she delivers on that.