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Losing a Friend to Cancer with Tig Notaro

Made It Out

Made It Out Media

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Actor, comedian, writer, and co-host of The Handsome Podcast, Tig Notaro joins Mal this week to talk about the devastating loss of her friend Andrea Gibson, facing her own cancer battle, the grief of losing her mom, at the same time as navigating a breakup. She also offers a glimpse into her new documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light. Thank you to this episode's sponsor! - Bellesa Boutique: EVERYONE who signs up wins a FREE Rose suction toy with their order! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/madeitout-podcast  Follow our guest @therealfluffnotaro, follow the show @madeitout, and follow Mal @malglowenke 👉 Subscribe, like & comment to support queer content! Check out our new show, Out For A Drive, and please remember to subscribe, engage, like, comment, show us some love babyyyy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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.

0:46.1

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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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