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For those who have not heard it, the Tig Notaro special is the one covered extensively by NPR and various news outlets, after Louis CK declared it one of the "truly great, masterful standup sets". The set famously opens with her revealing to the audience that she was just diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.

http://www.npr.org/2013/07/26/205540155/tig-notaro-on-going-...

I've only seen a couple sets by Tig, but this set and the Louis CK set alone make it worth the 5-10 dollars for the bundle.

As a side note, it's great to see Humble Bundle expanding into new types of content.

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I need to offer an alternative point of view.

It's a great set, but it's not as legendary as people seem to want to make it out to be. I think there is an element of "you had to be there" that is missing in an audio recording, and people genuinely want to feel what Louis C.K. did when he first shared news of the performance with his followers.

As someone who is an avid consumer of standup (old and new), and a huge Louis C.K. fan my expectations were set too high, and I don't think I enjoyed it as much as I could've because I was expecting something legendary and timeless.

Not to build it up too much, but Live is one of the more remarkable performances I've ever heard. Unbelievably tragic, visceral and funny. Not to be missed.

Came here to say the same thing. Tig's performance alone makes this worth purchasing. Truly unforgettable.

Wow! Tig, as in Tig the lesbian police officer Sarah Silverman tries to seduce in an episode of the Sarah Silverman Show? She even used her own name, which I thought was something fictional. I had no idea she was an accomplished comedian, as this is the only time I have seen her in television, and she was purposely not so funny in that episode (maybe two or three).

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0138294/

Very interesting to rediscover actors and actresses who succeed in anti-typecasting themselves. I would never have suspected she was a standup comedian, as she was the only character I had never seen before in that show.

Thank you for pouring me a piping hot cup of Tig! (Reference to the episode, see the link.)

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