Due to some unfortunate circumstances surrounding her personal life, comedian Tig Notaro's profile has been on the rise the last few weeks. It's a blessing and a curse, of course. Well before she contracted pneumonia and an intestine-eating bacteria and before her mother died...
As we mentioned earlier, Tig Notaro's new album Live was released today through Louis C.K's official website. C.K. just sent out a message to those on his mailing list explaining why exactly he thought it was so important the masses heard the 30-minute set in which Notaro...
Tig Notaro announced on Sept. 20 that Louis C.K. would release her next album, simply titled Live, as in the verb "live." And today, it's out through LouisCK.com, where you can download it for $5. As we reported before, the download contains Tig's Aug. 3 live set at Largo in Los...
Comedy nerds have known for weeks that comedian Tig Notaro had been diagnosed with stage-2 breast cancer. But last night she stopped by Conan and told a much wider audience about her four-month series of awful events, which involved her suffering Pneumonia, contracting an...
Each week, we’ve been featuring a new episode of Stand Down, the A.V. Club’s new animated series, wherein a comedian tells a story about a terrible time in their career. This week, Tig Notaro tells a chilling story of onstage bombing and near death. It’s not for the faint...
One of comedy nerds' most beloved comedians, Tig Notaro has cancer. She made the announcement last night during a show at Largo in Los Angeles, where Louis C.K., Bill Burr and others performed as well. After taking the mic from the show's host, Ed Helms, she addressed the crowd,...
Comedian and actress Tig Notaro is set to star in a short film loosely based on a time in her life when she hired a clown to help her overcome heartache. “I felt so down and out that I thought the only thing that was going to make me happy was if I called a clown service...
We reported last month that the casting process had begun for Sarah Silverman's single-camera comedy pilot for NBC . Well, its been announced that comedian and Sarah's BFF Tig Notaro has joined the cast! Notaro, who was a regular on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman...
Sarah Silverman has never shied away from employing racial slurs in her comedy, but she’s always maintained that—like any good comedian—she’s making a larger point about racism when she uses racist language, rather than exploiting offensive terms merely for the sake of...
