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Tig Notaro

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first: 2025-12-01
most recent: 2025-12-01
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“Yeah. And he was like, oh my God, yes, let's make that movie. And so who knows? It's a Hollywood project. We're in the process of putting the script together. I mean, listen, picture this poster. Okay.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was so confused. And then. Yeah. And so I called Zach and I said. I'm hearing it from straight men, gay men, gay women, and straight women that they think I'm hot in this movie. What if we just went for it and everyone's a hot lesbian”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was so unexpected. I was like, wait, my phone's exploding. I don't know. I'm not walking around going, oh my God, you know, check me out. And so my phone is exploding.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Zach Snyder. He was making this movie called Army of the Dead, and one of his actors got in trouble for sexual assault, harassment, all of that. And then he said he was sitting in the editing bay and he was like, I can't release this movie with this guy now. And he had already finished editing it. And then he called me. He erased that guy, that actor, and then had me shoot an entire action film alone on a green screen. And I was thinking, this is a massive international cast. I'm sure I'm just going to be this small role that nobody's going to notice me. That's my self-esteem there. But also people were so kind of classically hot. And anyway, so we finished the movie. It goes out. And then I go viral for being sexy in this film.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god, I love collaboration so much. I love being surrounded by people that have, I guess because I'm a failure dropout, I'm so used to not having drop drop.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, of course. But it was like. I sat in an Airbnb. I wanted to just be with these people by the fire. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it was It was and everybody that worked on it walked away with the same feeling. I mean, just even as I told you, the crew continued to fly out to rural Colorado to visit these people.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love it. I love it so much. So I think anything I do, I just want to maintain the life I have. I don't need to own the world or Hollywood. I'm not, that doesn't drive me. I want to maintain this tremendous life that I have. I know people say this, but I really am putting it into action of like wanting to be surrounded by good and good people and whatever that brings.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was such a compartmentalized joy because obviously my friend was dying, but the process and the people involved that really were so focused on making this about love and positivity. And there's you probably know this well too, that there's always a weirdo rattling around in some sort of project or There wasn't in this. And I just love I mean, really basic stuff. I just love feeling good and feeling good about what I'm doing and who I'm surrounded with. Half of the shows I work, like TV shows. I love connecting with people between scenes.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean I remember years ago. It was recommended that I branch out from stand up and just try other things because sometimes comedians can just get stuck in this. Yeah. And so I thought, okay, I guess I'll try that. And I've tried, I've tried acting, producing, writing. My wife and I have co-directed and I've directed stand-up specials. I think that. I'm not good at talking to a lot of people and dealing with a lot of people. I like to just do what I do and be done with the day. And so I think I'll always Do some amount of stand up, but are really, really loved producing this documentary.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have these friends from my childhood. My friends from childhood, they'll reach out and they're so confused that I am acting. Believe me I am too, but they'll be like, I'm sitting here on my couch in Texas watching you on screen with John Ham. And I'm like, how the hell did this happen?”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One. Well, and I have to say there's something also comforting because I don't. First and foremost identifies an actor. I have known John Ham for years and there's a comfort level that I have with him just as a person”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, it was more so that I worked with somebody that had. Kind of like a parallel ranking in their world. It wasn't tech or anything like that. And I just. Applied any sort of memory and feeling about this person that I worked with. And I was like, I'm just going to. Go for it and hope they'll give me a note one way or the other. And, you know, I'm more so identify as a comedian. And so here I am on this very.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About documentaries And once her husband ran for president, I said I need to, this isn't really my world. And we were doing such a stupid show together, like just so silly that it just felt not great timing with what was happening. So I stepped away and I wanted to go towards. Joy and lightness, like I just really, really needed that. And so that's really what I wanted to do. And I wanted to, yes, we have gone into some politics, but in general, it's not heavy on that side. And I wanted it to just be something that was a joyful world. LGBTQ, but not I just wanted to be silly”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I still do stand up. I'm about to start a tour in the new year, but to go back to work-life balance, I told my agent I only want to do a weekend a month rather than these long hauls. Yeah, and I do a few shows a month in Los Angeles to kind of work out material. And then I just go on the road. And I'm, I mean, I'm a real weirdo in that I just show up five minutes before I walk on stage and I walk on, tell everyone what I think is funny. And then I head out. So I'm very removed, but I think I'm okay with that. I'm 54. I've got a family I enjoy being with. And it's so different. I'm so different.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I'm oddly the worst person to ask this because I feel like after the pandemic, I really kind of stepped away. That's when so much of this shift started to happen. And then when I resurfaced, it was a whole new world. And it's still obviously changing. But I don't know. I've been so, so removed from the stand-up world. I can only give you those broad strokes that you mentioned, where it's getting very personal and is also getting very broy and do you want to?”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was going to say where to begin with the shift in comedy. Yeah, I feel a massive shift, whether it is the bro comedy, very conservative comedy, you know, when I first started almost 30 years ago, it was very unusual to find a conservative out. Conservative comedian People would all kind of reference Dennis Miller. But yeah, I feel the shift. And I think that when I think if you go to that personal place though, I mean, I think it's like anything you do though. You have to really be behind what you're saying and not that people are being manipulated in any way with your performance and material. I mean, you want the most authentic experience possible. And if somebody's really going in to an emotional story, you want to feel like You really, really getting a real.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But you know, it definitely opened the side of me where I'm completely fine to share personal stories in my life and struggles, but I also am finding A balance of, I don't have to tell you everything just because I told you that. And I like where I've landed with all of that”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, my God, it's so funny. And part of my stand-up for that live album was me answering all of the questions. You know, was your room too loud? Did your nurses and doctors give you the appropriate care? And so I just responded to all of that.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Find who sent this and how to stop this. And then after I got back to LA, I was like, oh my God, that is so funny. And I was crying, laughing.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In life, as you know it, and actual life. And so I loved stand up so much and thought, I want to do this one last time. And I just felt so compelled to share the reality. When I pictured walking onto Largo stage in Los Angeles, I could not imagine saying, you know, well, yeah, I was driving today. Like whatever, whatever I was going to talk about. I just thought I have to share what I've been going through because it was. I didn't know if I had gone crazy. I was maniacally laughing about different topics that I would never have found funny. One of the things I discussed on stage was the questionnaire. That the hospital sent my mother after she died, asking her how her stay in the hospital went. And when I got that questionnaire, I was so upset. I was so mad. I wanted to make it my life's work.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's interesting, you know, there was no big plan behind it. I was a comedian that was just very observational and every now and then there was something personal. Barely in my comedy. And When I went through that period of time, I not only had a cancer diagnosis, I had pneumonia and C diff, which is an intestinal disease, very deadly. My mother tripped and hit her head and died and my girlfriend and I broke up. And it was a four-month period of time where I had really seen firsthand how life Can just slip away.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was a different area of town, and then I'm looking, and I said to Max and Finn, my sons, I said, Do you recognize this song? And they said, I have it on video too. They were just dumbfounded. They said, this is Andrea Mexong. And I said yes, it is. So I tell I send that to Meg too, and she said, well, it looks like Andrea followed your family to London and is giving us the okay to do our project together.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would be thrilled, but go ahead. I love a harp, but this it's like, how is our tea going to go? You know, we have a harp that's like two stories high sitting behind us. And so we were all just looking at each other kind of laughing like this is going to be a funny tea.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go for high tea. Stephanie's off work. We meet up with her and her mother and we're all sitting at this cafe. And this woman with this gigantic harp. Comes and plops it down behind us. And we're like, we kind of look at each other like, oh boy.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Shaniah Twain Which is a great song, and it's in the documentary as Andrea and Meg's song. And I had just when I left LA, I had just left Meg, who was staying with us for screening in Los Angeles. And we had talked about this project we were going to work on. And let's not jump to any decisions. Let's just sit on it. And then I flew off to London and then she went back to Colorado. And so I walk into town, this guy's singing their song, and I told my son. So I was like, guys, this is Andrea and Meg's song. And I filmed the back of their heads just watching this man sing it. Like they understood the beautiful moment we were witnessing. So I was like, wow, that was wild. And I sent that to Meg and she said, oh my gosh, I'm weeping. And the next day,”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stephanie's at work, and I take our sons into the little village nearby to go look around. And there is just a man standing in the middle of the village area, singing at the top of his lungs, and Looks like we made it.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I was, it was days after Andrea died and my co-host asked how I was doing and I was getting into it and I wasn't sitting like I'm sitting right now. I didn't touch anything on my laptop. And then all of a sudden I heard myself doing stand up and material. I didn't even recognize. I was like, hold on, guys, do you hear what's happening? And so it felt like, okay, I'm open to what everyone is looking at me thinking, this is Andrea saying hello. And that is something I would have shot down before. Sure. And one of my favorite stories on this topic is my wife was in London filming a movie and I flew out there with our sons and my mother-in-law and we were all out visiting. And the first morning we woke up.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But after this experience, I was seeing Andrea, I was feeling Andrea, I was in really ways. I didn't even recognize myself. The way I was talking, the way I was, and also Andrea's body of work that was left behind that already echoes in my mind the way I go through life. There's so many different lines where I'm like.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was so beautiful. Yeah. And I felt like I was on mushrooms for months after Andrea died because I kept saying to Stephanie, my wife, I was like, I don't even understand how I'm going to come back from Colorado, exit the 101 freeway onto Melrose and just go back to my life in Los Angeles. Like, I truly don't understand. And so I think that that is what changed me as well as Andrea something opened in me. I am the most non I don't even claim that I'm spiritual. I'm like”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know, you know, probably it's mixed in there because I have kids, but I would say more so than anything. It was so every death I've been at four end of life death or bedsides. My mother, my stepfather, my cousin, and then Andreas. And Andrea wanted to die at home surrounded by loved ones. And boy, did they. And my mother, my stepfather, my cousin all died in hospital beds. But this experience was so, I mean, Andrea's home, Andrea and Meg, their home was filled with Andrea's closest friends and ex-girlfriends and parents, and it was really beautiful. And it was really... There were so many dynamics going on that were Being navigated, having to be put aside.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's always a gym coach. It was assigned to make sure that we all ended up alive by the end of the day. And that was the only contribution. He gone in front of the door. He's like, whoa, where do you think you're going? I said, oh, I'm heading home. And he was like, oh no, you're not. And I said, no, I actually am, I quit. I'm done. I'm like, I'm just going to head home now.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That this is not my world. And I got up from my desk and I just saw walking to leave. And the gym coach that was, you know, it's always a sign.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That reminds me, I so connect with that deeply because it's different, but the same when I was such a I failed three grades and then dropped out of high school. And I was in school suspension one day. And I was like, basically 73 years old. I was supposed to be out of school long ago. And I'm sitting there in in-school suspension because I was tardy a million times. I didn't turn in my schoolwork. So I'm sitting in there. And when you get assigned a day of in-school suspension, Deliver your classwork and you need to finish that. And if you don't finish that, then they just add more days to in-school suspension. And I was seeing there going, Why never do my work in the first place? Why would I do it in here? I don't know who they think is going to be doing these stacks of assignments. And I just thought, I know in my Gut in my soul”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I have to, I am in charge, and I have to make the changes to live my life, to actually live my life. That's a long-winded way of saying that I think you just really have to find ways to very honestly show up and experience your life”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I want to be in my life. And I felt like I was missing it. And I want to be present for it. I guess what I'm getting at is trying to really curate the life that you want to live so that you can have real experiences that it's really hard to shut down. Everybody knows this. All of the noise of life. And do I really need to do this with my time? Do I really want that person in my life? Yeah. Do I really need to be start to finish every day so busy? No, I don't. And so I think that you have to just really, and this is all new to me because I am after so many interviews of me lying to myself and everybody I was talking to, like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm definitely work-life balance. I'm getting on that and I'm handling that. Yeah, I see it in my. And then I was like, no, I'm not. I'm not doing that.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god. That's that whole thing, like we were talking in the beginning this movie is about life more than it's about death and it's about, I can't remember if Andrea said it in the movie or after of like trying to find that joy before getting any sort of terrible diagnosis or news. And it's hard. It's really, really hard because there's so much noise in life. And I think one of the things, like I was saying, how this movie changed me was I work in Toronto and I was a full-time cast member on this new TV series. And I was just spending half of my year in an apartment, a furnished apartment away from my wife and kids. And I was just like, this is. Not life. I mean, no offense to the show. I'm still on it, but I asked to be. Downgraded to just a recurring guest star because I started to really become keenly aware all over again that”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I actually didn't oddly, and nobody's asked me that until just now. I mean, I don't know. Maybe in the deep, deep corners of my mind I did, but I think that I was, I realized now I was in deep denial when Andrea was ill because Andrea seemed so okay and because I had heard so many stories of People kind of beating the odds and living longer, living 10 to 15 years. And I kept thinking like, I think that's what's going to happen with Andrea. And so I think there was maybe a level of disassociation in certain times where I just thought, okay, I know we're doing supposedly Andrea's final show here. We're filming this, but I didn't believe that that was going to be Andrea's final show, even though it very unfortunately ended up being. But the good news is we filmed the whole thing. Right.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good evening. Hello I have cancer. How are you? Is everybody having a good time? I have cancer. How are you? It's a good time. Diagnosed with cancer. Feels good.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we crossed paths there. And she was just like, anything I can do for this movie. And so that's where Sarah Borellis and Brandi Carlyle collaborated on the final original song in the documentary is Andrea's poem that they put to music and sang. And it's so beautiful. It is.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their final show. And so I felt like that's a natural moment for me to be in briefly, briefly. And even Sarah Borellis was such an Andrea Gibson fan that she just flew out. We didn't know her personally, but she flew out to Andrea's final performances in Denver.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think. Ryan wanted to really Just be a fly on the wall in their lives. And I think it is so much more compelling. It's that idea of show don't tell. Right. And we were showing people this life. And there was some talk about me being at that dinner in the very beginning of the film. And I just, not that I'm the biggest, most distracting star that you could stumble upon, but I just, I didn't want to be in, I wanted to very naturally, if it ever made sense, but I did not want to be in the movie. I wanted the attention to be on Andrea and Meg, but then the one little moment I was okay with being in was Andrea wanted me to open.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In the Airbnb, having tea, laughing, and sitting by the fire, and then I go back, I was working in Toronto and I get all of these texts and calls. And I was so scared that it was bad news about Andrea. And so I called my wife and I was like, oh, God, what do I do? I'm not, I can't do this. I can't do this. And she said, you just have to call. And I did. I called Meg and Andrea. And they were like, did you hear? And I was like, what? I was so far in the direction. Yeah, I was like ready to cry. I was just like, what? And they were like, we won Sundance. And I was like, wait, what are you talking about? What do you mean? It was so confusing.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sitting in this, we were in this Airbnb having tea by the fire, and we would go out every now and then, me, Steph, the producer, Ryan, and Jess, and we'd go to very targeted situations, moments that we had to just introduce ourselves. And then we just got back in the car, went back to the Airbnb. We had no vibe of how the movie was doing other than the premiere went well and we were like, wow, that felt so good. I mean, truly, we spent our whole”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Life is the point. And Andrea didn't think that they were going to make be able to make the trip out to Sundance because at that point there was a lot of tumors in Andrea's lungs and Andrea was struggling to breathe. But last minute. Meg and Andrea were able to drive out from Colorado to Sundance some of the producers and my wife came out. We all got an Airbnb and I had the most atypical sundance experience in my life. I had been maybe four or five times before. And you're always expected to go to dinners and parties and events and schmoozing. And here we were with Andrea and Meg.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thumbing. So let's, yeah, then the truth came out. But anyway, so Andrea thought that this film was going to end with their death. But then as we were going along in the process, Ryan said, You know, we don't need our hero to die. He said, we can wrap up this film and it's a really beautiful story. And then we can submit it to Sundance. And then Andrea could potentially see this film. And so we did that behind Andrea and Meg's back. We wrapped it up, put an ending, which didn't end up being the ending, but a working ending, submitted it to Sundance without telling them just so they wouldn't be hurting anyway if they didn't get into the festival. And so we sent it in. And we heard through the grapevine, it got in unanimously. And then we were able to share the good news with Andrea and Meg.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, Ryan Wyatt, the director, he and his producing partner, Jessica, they're best friends from childhood in Georgia. They did the Pamela Anderson documentary. Ryan said that he didn't have any phone call or Zoom or anything before he showed up at their door. They just knew he was coming And Jess, what's coming? And he said that the first, he said, Meg walked out, hugged them both so warmly, and Andrea walked out and said, hi, I'm Andrea. I guess you're going to be with me when I die. Welcome to my home. And he just said he had never experienced any subject so open. And in fact, that dinner scene, the very beginning of the movie, I don't know, you probably remember.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a very small crew, but that crew continued to fly out and visit Andrea and Meg even after the film was done. It was very close group of people. But I would say, and yeah, to go back to a lot of people in our lives would say I was kind of the stand-up version of Andrea. Andrea was a stand-up version of me. And even Meg the other day was like, God, it. It's crazy how much you remind me of Andrea. And I see it and I feel it. But again, I don't think I carry that heaviness. I don't. But I have in moments of my life.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I mean, and I had cancer personally, like I went through my own cancer diagnosis Among other things that happen simultaneously, but I feel like I don't understand who I was even remotely before 2012, before my diagnosis. And that Cracked me open in a way that it's sad that a lot of people can't get that awakening until something horrendous happens. But I'm still human and I fall into my old ways of taking things for granted, getting frustrated by the dumbest things. And then I can snap myself out of it in ways when I really get back in touch with what I went through and going through Andrea's illness in the making of this film, it opened me on a whole different level, very, very life-changing. For me. And everybody that worked on that film. I mean, even the crew.”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Um, I think look, I've had moments in my life when I have felt deeply tortured and confused and frustrated with Life and the world and myself, but I feel like that's where Andrea and I were, I think there was more of a separation. I think Andrea had for a long time a very deep struggle with”
2025-12-01 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Tig Notaro on Laughing Through Grief · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT