LOS ANGELES – Whenever she’s down, Tiffany Haddish says she finds a good joke can bring her right back up. That’s why the popular star of TV, film and stand-up decided to crack wise about ways to survive in the year of coronavirus in a nearly empty room recently while dressed in a bright orange pantsuit, protective gloves and armed with a can of Lysol. “You told me you loved me, then bring me some groceries.
I’m down to my last role of T.P.,” she sang as she opened her act with a raucous tune she said she'd written just the day before to sum up what weeks of self-isolation has been like.
Haddish was performing at the venerable Los Angeles club the Laugh Factory, where she got her start as part of a kids’ comedy camp more than 20 years ago.