[encore] Deon Cole

Don't Ask Tig

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally broadcast on February 16, 2022

Actor and comedian Deon Cole, a regular on Black-ish and Grown-ish, stops by Don't Ask Tig to talk privacy, positivity and how to be uniquely yourself. He and Tig give advice to a mom who can't get her smelly teenager to shower, and they can't stop laughing about Dear Abby's suggestions to a newlywed husband who's bothered that his wife sleeps, eats and even cooks in the nude!

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0:00.0	Hey Dana's and Becky's, what you're about to hear is an encore presentation of one of our
0:06.4	favorite episodes from the Don't Ask Tig Archives. Please enjoy. Hi listeners, this episode drops
0:13.8	February 16th, and I've learned that way back on February 16th of 1861, Abraham Lincoln met an
0:23.2	11-year-old girl named Grace Betel while in Westfield, New York. The reason for the meeting was
0:31.5	that the year before Grace had gone viral in a 19th century kind of way when she had written to
0:39.0	the president during his presidential campaign suggesting that Honest Abe grow a beard to improve
0:46.5	his electoral chances. Grace wrote to Lincoln, quote, I have got four brothers and part of them
0:55.2	will vote for you anyway, and if you will let your whiskers grow, I will try and get the rest of
1:01.5	them to vote for you. You would look a great deal better. For your face is so thin. Lincoln won
1:08.4	the election, so clearly Grace's advice was rock solid. Plus, now I have an advice giving role model
1:16.1	to aspire to. Thanks Grace, and I'll soon be in Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, Milwaukee, Chicago,
1:25.6	Madison, Iowa City, and New York City. Why might you ask? Because I'm on tour, silly goose.
1:33.8	If you live in one of these cities or happen to be there, or let's say you live in Austin,
1:38.7	and it's sold out, go to San Antonio or Dallas. Tickets are at Tignotaro.com, claim your seat
1:46.0	before it's too late. Now on with the show. Yeah, I think I've gotten a couple of auditions,
1:54.1	but in general, people are just like, do we need a low energy and drawn to this gentle comedy
2:03.0	in this moment? They can fathom that. They can't look at you and see the beauty in you and go,
2:10.1	y'all, I wasn't thinking about somebody like that, but she's so amazing. We got to have this
2:15.6	and we got to change this whole character for her. Or sometimes they'll be like, here's the
2:20.8	character, and then I'll be like, I have no range. And they're like, okay, well, we'll just stick
2:26.3	you in there anyway. I always say on Star Trek, I'm just tigging space.
2:56.4	This is Don't Ask Tig. I'm Tignotaro. And in honor of the holiday, please don't ask me to be
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