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Tig Notaro

American Comedian

Born: Mar 24, 1971

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Related authors: George Carlin Groucho Marx Milton Berle Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Steven Wright W. C. Fields

People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just - I think a lot of people struggle with depression and mental illness and have issues and problems within their family. The mailman has it. Your neighbor has it. It's just that comedians have a microphone. Tig Notaro

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I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear. Tig Notaro

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I'm not for everyone. Tig Notaro

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The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction. Tig Notaro

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Even in losing my mother, beautiful, amazing awakenings have happened within my family. Of course, losing her is not what you want. The things that happened after her death, she would be so just beside herself with joy that life turned out that way. Tig Notaro

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I've toured around the world. I've worked with men, women. I feel like I've been unusually lucky to have supportive friends around me, and I feel tremendously supportive about my peers. I can't wait to brag about how funny my friends are. Tig Notaro

When I've had to edit my albums, I'll listen to it one time through, and I'll make edits. I want to remember to set up a camera to record myself listening to my set, because I don't even slightly crack a smile, I am just listening for technical details, and I look like somebody that has absolutely no sense of humor. I look insane. Tig Notaro

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Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something. Tig Notaro

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It's not that I hate all of my material - I think it was good. I liked it. I just don't ever want to hear it. Tig Notaro

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People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die. Tig Notaro

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I never really consider myself an awkward person, but once I got into stand-up, I kept hearing that word. The only thing I can trace it back to is that my mom had a similar sensibility. She always made people uncomfortable. Tig Notaro

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My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction. Tig Notaro

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I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the woods, wander off into the woods for hours. I'd bring a clipboard and think that I was doing some work out there, following the trails of raccoons or collecting bird feathers. Tig Notaro

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In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant. Tig Notaro

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It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get. Tig Notaro

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My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool. Tig Notaro

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A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like, 'I don't want to hear about your kids!' I'm like, 'Prepare yourselves. That's all I'm going to talk about.' Tig Notaro

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Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy. Tig Notaro

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Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me... and were just like, 'You know what? We're sick of this. Let's kill her.' Tig Notaro

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