Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro
Mathilde "Tig" O'Callaghan Notaro is an American stand-up comic, writer, radio contributor, and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth24 March 1971
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
guitar people comedian
I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.
dark thinking puppets
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.
coffee paper cigarette
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
girl mother country
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.
tragedy right-now
I am just at tragedy right now.
wrinkles hair age
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
unlucky persons
I'm the luckiest unlucky person.
order bird documentaries
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
coffee making-money babysitting
I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.
guitar years nine
I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.
almost best doctors family great health lined people perfectly savings support work
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.
air bother eating gets nutrients playing second skinny stop telling
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'
huge loved paula richard
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.
moved opposite
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.