4.8 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Tig’s guest, actor, singer, and one-woman show pioneer, Sandra Bernhard, is still going strong with roles in FX’s “American Horror Story,” “POSE,” and her latest one-woman show, “Spring Affair.” Sandra shares the best acting advice she ever got from her mentor — the late, great comedian Paul Mooney. Tig and Sandra give advice to a student conflicted about becoming a performer, a bi-curious woman hesitant to flirt, and they discuss leg hair, pubic hair and how to handle friends who can’t stop talking about their pets.
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0:00.0 | Becky's this next episode has me talking with a showbiz veteran hailed as a pioneer of the one woman show. |
0:09.0 | Our conversation got me thinking about my history as a stand up and how I have evolved. |
0:15.0 | I feel like I've come to a place of just wanting to always do what makes me feel good on stage. |
0:23.0 | And I think that that makes the audience enjoy the show more. |
0:28.0 | When I started, I did one liner jokes and then I would tell short stories that I started telling longer stories. |
0:36.0 | I even kind of dabbled in prop comedy in the way that I dragged a stool across the stage on Conan. |
0:45.0 | I've incorporated music. |
0:47.0 | So many different things. |
0:49.0 | Even sharing personal details about like when I had cancer and my mother passed away. |
0:55.0 | And it's funny because all the different places that I've reached in my career and in my style. |
1:03.0 | There's always a conversation around it of like, oh, is this, do you think you've found your voice finally? |
1:09.0 | And I think I have my voice. |
1:12.0 | It's just that it's more secured in the way that I feel comfortable using it in all these different ways of telling stories and jokes. |
1:23.0 | Anyway, if you want to hear me tell stories and jokes, I may be stopping by a town near you. |
1:31.0 | In fact, I'll be headed to Bellingham, Washington, September 8th, Olympia, Washington, September 9th, |
1:39.0 | Torrington, Connecticut, September 15th, Rochester, New York, September 16th, |
1:45.0 | Wilmington, Delaware, September 17th, Colorado Springs, September 25th, |
1:51.0 | Breckenridge, Colorado, September 28th, Boulder, Colorado, September 29th, |
1:56.0 | and November 4th in Brooklyn at Kings Theatre for my next stand-up special taping. |
2:03.0 | There's an early and late show. |
2:05.0 | And then I'm off on my European tour in October. |
2:08.0 | Check my website for all European and US dates at Tignotaro.com. |
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