Tig Notaro & John Darnielle

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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[r] Jesse Thorn talks to comedian, Tig Notaro about the worst few months of her life and how stand up helped her get through them. Later he sits down with musician and author John Darnielle, to talk about his band the Mountain Goats and new novel, Wolf in White Van.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.5	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.8	A couple of years ago, comedian Tignotaro experienced a series of life-changing events in almost
0:20.8	unbelievably quick succession.
0:23.0	The experience culminated in a cancer diagnosis, the terrifyinger, but in the midst of all that,
0:28.6	he turned to the thing she loved to do the most.
0:31.2	I was like, I've lost everything.
0:33.5	I have nothing to lose now.
0:35.6	And I don't care what people know.
0:37.8	I don't care what people think.
0:39.2	I don't care.
0:40.1	I don't care.
0:41.2	I care so much.
0:42.2	I don't care.
0:43.2	You know?
0:44.4	And I love stand-up and I had the show booked and I wanted to do comedy one more time
0:50.8	if this is happening to me.
0:54.4	And it's supposed to happen to other people.
0:56.8	I know it's cliché to say that.
0:58.3	You can't help but go through that.
1:01.2	And I really was scared.
1:03.9	I was going to die.
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