Lena Waithe
Don't Ask Tig
American Public Media
4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Lena Waithe, the trailblazing producer, actor, and Emmy-winning screenwriter of Netflix’s “Master of None” and creator of BET's "Twenties," trades stories with Tig about their early days as assistants in Hollywood, and how to be a great mentor. Tig and Lena offer advice to a retiree struggling with boredom, a long-distance girlfriend who wants to spice up her Zoom dates, and a woman about to become a grandmother who wants to be called something more hip than ‘grandma.’
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Dana here. Yes, that Dana. It's been a couple of years since I needed |
| 0:05.6 | Tix advice and she and Will Ferrell thank me many times. I can't believe she |
| 0:10.5 | still thinks me at the end of every episode. There are plenty of Dana's out |
| 0:14.4 | there continuing to ask take questions and we always get heartfelt and |
| 0:18.4 | humorous advice. Join me the original Dana in donating to this one of a kind |
| 0:23.8 | podcast. Go to don't ask take dot org slash donate today. I say it at the end |
| 0:30.6 | of every show. Thank you Dana and I'll tell Becky. Well, I also want to thank |
| 0:35.6 | Jane and California, Nathan and Minnesota and Jill from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. |
| 0:41.4 | All of those listeners recently supported Don't Ask Tig by making a donation. |
| 0:46.5 | You can join them and help us meet our goal of 500 donors by December 31st. |
| 0:52.4 | Maybe I'll even thank you in an upcoming episode. Give right now at Don't Ask Tig.org |
| 0:59.2 | slash donate. Hey listeners, it's your friend Tig as a comedian and an artist. |
| 1:06.5 | Is that what I am? Some might consider me to be. Others definitely don't. A |
| 1:11.7 | public figure for sure. Certain public, you know, other people, no clue who I am. |
| 1:17.4 | But generating material, I use a lot of things from my life. I used to not share |
| 1:25.0 | anything from my life, really. I mean, here and there, but very surfacy or in a |
| 1:30.0 | very structured joke form. And then I went full throttle in 2012 when I got sick |
| 1:36.7 | and my mother died and I went through my breakup. I shared every detail. It was |
| 1:43.7 | cathartic. And now I'm like, I still share things about my personal life and |
| 1:50.2 | my private life. But I'm picking and choosing more carefully. And I'll think I |
| 1:55.9 | don't know if the world needed to know that or the world needed to hear that |
| 2:01.3 | joke. There's also people that aren't public figures and you have social media. |
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