Tig Notaro

I just unbutton my shirt and take it off, hang it on the mic stand, and then talk about – Bert Kreischer before her time.

Yeah, truly.

I did this before Bert.

And so –

I thought, I am making a statement, but I'm also a comedian, so I want it to be funny.

And so the funny part to me was what I was talking about while my shirt was off, which is what the comedy community considers hacky bad material, which is airline material.

And I was talking about just stupid, like, what if you're on a flight?

And I don't even remember what I was talking about.

And I just thought it would be a really fun juxtaposition to do something that bold while I was doing something so not respected.

And the audience, they went from shocked to shocked.

It was like I had a shirt on.

They didn't even notice or care anymore.

Like I just did the rest of my show, never talking about my shirt being off.

Well, I didn't go on stage with my shirt off.

I did that halfway through.

So for the first half hour, I'm just dressed like a normal comedian and I guess a gay comedian.

But and then I take my shirt off.

And I think the exciting part was when it merges with my shirt is off, the crowd's going nuts.

And then I go into my airline material and I was like, oh, this feels so good.

It felt so good because you could feel the audience.