Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here

This is some of her most gleeful work yet, and that glee is inextricable from the pleasure of simply seeing her live her life.

There is an unrelenting riptide of joy that defines Happy to Be Here. Tig uses this hour not to wade in the polluted pool of the past, but to play in the sandbox of the now.

Her deadpan style has already earned her legions of fans, but here, she increases her ambitions and gets mischievous.

Notaro's jokes aren't one-liners, they're investments.