Losing a Friend to Cancer with Tig Notaro
Made It Out
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to Made It Out. Today I'm here with actor, comedian, writer, producer, |
| 0:05.5 | and one of the hosts of the Handsome podcast, Tignitaro, and we're talking about her brand new |
| 0:11.0 | documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light. I had the privilege of watching it early. I just watched |
| 0:16.5 | it last night and it is absolutely incredible. It tells the story of Andrea Gibson, who was a spoken |
| 0:23.4 | word poet and their battle with terminal ovarian cancer. Today we're going to talk about TIG's 25-year |
| 0:30.7 | friendship with Andrea. We're going to talk about her own personal struggle with cancer and death and grieving. |
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| 1:28.7 | I've learned a lot about TIG, including the fact that TIG's name is actually the same as |
| 1:33.2 | my girlfriend, Matilds. |
| 1:35.4 | You are here to talk about your documentary, which I had the privilege of watching and |
| 1:41.7 | was so impressed by. |
| 1:42.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:43.5 | And I want you to introduce Andrea |
| 1:47.3 | for maybe some of our listeners who don't know who they are. Andrea Gibson was a, I mean, |
| 1:54.9 | a dear friend of 25 years and also one of the greatest poets. |
| 2:02.4 | And my wife pointed out recently that Andrea now will go down as a known poet, like by name, |
| 2:12.4 | which is, there's what, like five in the world. |
| 2:16.0 | Like, you know what I mean? |
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