Tig Notaro – Cannonball Read 17

Evolution is a fickle bitch

I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro

April 25, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

I set out to learn about Tig Notaro when she appeared on Star Trek: Discovery as the dry, hyper-confident engineer Jet Reno. I love this character so much that I went down the Tig Notaro rabbit hole and discovered she does not disappoint, and is possibly the only person worthy of depicting Jet Reno. I chose to do the audiobook version of her memoir, in part because I love her dry-Daria like delivery and wish I could truly perfect my like-I-give-a-fuck-about-emoting-monotone like she has. If […]

“The scary beauty of life is that cancer can be around the corner just as a Grammy nomination can be.”

July 20, 2017 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

Tig Notaro has been on my radar for the last few years, primarily because of the press her cancer diagnosis and Argo comedy performance received. However, prior to reading her memoir I didn’t realize that the cancer diagnosis was just the tip of the iceberg in the shit storm 2012 was for her. First Notaro got painfully sick following a pneumonia diagnosis and, after a few hospital visits, was diagnosed with C.Diff, a life threatening infection caused by the removal of all the bacteria in […]

Fluff is a great name for a cat.

March 5, 2017 by JCoppercorn 1 Comment

We all have bad days. Difficult months. Challenging years. But every once in awhile, it seems like the stars of “fuck you.” align to create something so cruel that it should be fiction and then hands it to someone and walks away. That’s what happened to Tig in less than one year. People want to make sense of things, so they say it’s random, or God only gives you what He thinks you can handle, or they wonder what you did in a previous life. […]

Triple Cannonball!

August 10, 2016 by badkittyuno 15 Comments

I’ve been vaguely familiar with Tig Notaro for the last few years, but mostly as a writer on Inside Amy Schumer, and as the comic who announced her breast cancer at a stand up show. I had no idea that in the four months prior to her breast cancer diagnosis in 2012, that Notaro also almost died from Clostridium difficile (C. diff), lost her mother in a freak accident, and went through a break up. I’m Just a Person tells the story of that year, and how Notaro coped (or […]

Bad Luck. But Also Good Luck.

June 20, 2016 by ASKReviews 2 Comments

I’m pretty sure the first time I encountered Tig Notaro’s work was in that This American Life Story, but it might also have been when she had a role in the sweet film “In A World.” I watched her documentary, and then her comedy special, and really enjoyed both. I find her to be intriguing and unpretentious, and so had to pick up her memoir. If you have somehow managed to not heard her story, Ms. Notaro experienced a pretty brutal spring four years ago: […]

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