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Tig Notaro
American
Comedian
Born:
Mar 24
,
1971
Life
Me
Myself
People
Think
You
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
Love
Depression
Family
Struggle
People
Dark
Problems
Miserable
Think
Neighbor
Out
Mental
Mental Illness
Comedians
Make
Within
Issues
Lot
Microphone
Just
Your
Illness
Twisted
I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.
Tig Notaro
You
Clown
Strikes
Horn
Silly
Open
Weird
Noises
Make
Authentic
Just
Just As Much
Being
Want
Much
Honest
I can't waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.
Tig Notaro
Time
Fear
Cause
Unless
Worrying
Something
More
Should
Waste
I'm not for everyone.
Tig Notaro
Everyone
The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.
Tig Notaro
Funny
People
Response
True
Know
Mississippi
Fiction
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
Life
Beautiful
Death
Family
You
Joy
Mother
Amazing
Losing
Herself
Way
Out
Beside
Would
Would-Be
She
Course
Within
Just
Want
After
Happened
Turned
Even
Her
Things
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
Funny
Me
Women
World
Wait
Men
Tremendously
Peers
About
Toured
Feel
Supportive
Like
Unusually
Around
How
Been
Brag
Friends
Worked
Lucky
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
Smile
Time
Myself
Sense Of Humor
Remember
Listening
Humor
Somebody
Sense
Slightly
Insane
One Time
Details
Record
No Sense
Through
Absolutely
Had
Like
Look
Make
Because
Edit
Am
Camera
Up
Crack
Listen
Just
Want
Even
Technical
Albums
Set
I just absolutely adore Denver and the Boulder area. Having lived there several times, it feels like home to me.
Tig Notaro
Home
Me
Several
Having
Adore
Area
Absolutely
Boulder
Feels
Like
Denver
Times
Just
Lived
Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.
Tig Notaro
Broad
Strokes
Kind
Something
Very
Story
Skeleton
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
Good
Hate
Think
Liked
Material
Hear
Just
Want
Ever
Even losing my mother, I wanted my mother. That's who you want instinctually when you're having a hard time.
Tig Notaro
Time
You
Mother
Losing
Having
Want
Wanted
Hard
Who
Hard Time
Even
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
Me
Courage
People
Cancer
Somebody
Stage
Gave
Say
Come
Like
Well
Up
Die
Stories
After
Them
Really
Your
Show
Ill
Helped
Things
Four
Album
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
Myself
Mom
People
Word
Made
Consider
Back
Once
Similar
Only
Uncomfortable
Never
Had
Trace
She
Always
Got
Hearing
Person
The Only Thing
Sensibility
Really
Thing
Awkward
Kept
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
Out
Kind
Direction
Never
Had
Always
Go
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Been
Moved
Anything
Upward
Moving
Stall
Forward
Right
Career
Right Direction
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
Work
Nature
Cats
Feathers
Bird
Animals
Think
Out
Collecting
Some
Following
Obsessed
Hours
Doing
Off
Very
Trails
Wander
Woods
Work Out
Really
Used
Play
Bring
Monkeys
It attracts all types. But I definitely call the comedy world the land of misfit toys. Looking around the room at my friends, that's what I see.
Tig Notaro
World
Comedy
Looking
Types
Definitely
See
Toys
Call
Attracts
Around
Friends
Room
Land
In the past, I played in bands, worked at coffee shops, babysat, and worked as a production assistant.
Tig Notaro
Coffee
Past
Bands
Shops
In The Past
Worked
Production
Coffee Shops
Played
Assistant
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
Work
Best
Health
Great
Family
People
Cancer
Doctors
Savings
Savings Account
Embarrassing
Tell
Support
Almost
Perfectly
Feel
Like
Health Insurance
Insurance
Always
How
How Much
Lined
Up
Friends
Account
Friends And Family
Get
Mean
Much
Set
I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.
Tig Notaro
People
Seriously
Too
Take
Buddhists
Over
Up
Hollywood
Themselves
Popping
Fascinated
One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.
Tig Notaro
Girl
Ghost
Favorite
Emily
Songs
Songwriters
Talented
Most
Wrote
She
Ever
My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.
Tig Notaro
Me
Mother
Thought
Never
Pushed
Looked
She
Stylish
Always
Cool
People complain about Hollywood comedians, but I feel like I selected a tremendous group, ones who aren't fame-obsessed.
Tig Notaro
People
Group
Complain
Tremendous
About
Selected
Feel
Like
Comedians
Hollywood
Who
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
People
Once
Kids
Bad
About
Like
Comedians
Talk
Rep
Hear
Lot
Get
Going
Want
Your
Prepare
Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy.
Tig Notaro
You
Comedy
Drinker
Know
Fix
Get
Gambler
Luckily
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
Me
You
Jokes
Made
Before
Think
Sick
Pretty
About
Small
Had
Over
Like
Know
Mastectomy
Overheard
How
Were
Chest
Years
Maybe
Just
Double
Many
Her
Started
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