Tig Notaro Isn't a Blob Anymore

Death, Sex & Money

• Episode: Tig Notaro Isn't a Blob Anymore
• Website: Death, Sex & Money
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• Duration: 00:25:35
• Published: 2018-07-25 18:00

Tig Notaro had big plans for the year she turned 41—after spending her 20s and 30s on the road building her comedy career, she was finally going to fulfill her dream of becoming a parent. Instead, Tig's life fell apart. In the span of six months, she contracted a life-threatening infection, her mother died in an accident and Tig was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. She talked about all of it on stage at Largo, the comedy club in Los Angeles, and the set went viral.

That terrible year changed a lot of things for Tig. She got an explosion of job offers, she got married, and six years later, she is finally a parent. When we spoke, she told me that building a family has totally upended her life—in a good way. "My life before them—I was just a blob floating around the universe," she said. "I just, I don’t even understand what I was doing, I don’t understand. I don’t understand my existence."

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