Tig Notaro on Grief, Comedy, and Life After Loss

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Gwyneth sits down with Tig Notaro—comedian, writer, actor, and producer—to talk about her Oscar-nominated documentary Come See Me in the Good Light, which follows poet Andrea Gibson through the final chapter of their life. They talk about friendship, illness, and mortality—and how everything can shift when you’re faced with what really matters. Tig reflects on witnessing Andrea’s humor, openness, and perspective in the face of stage four cancer, as well as her own experience with illness and loss—and how comedy became a way through it. They also explore art as a way of making meaning, the strange coexistence of heartbreak and laughter, and why we shouldn’t wait for something devastating to start living more fully. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you are pioneering anything or introducing new ideas to the culture, you get criticized.
0:09.0	You do?
0:10.0	Yeah. Did you hear about that?
0:12.0	I didn't find the one. I found someone I respected and we made it the one.
0:17.0	In a sort of longing kind of view of love, people understand each other as if by magic.
0:22.4	Nothing in itself is addictive on one hand. And in the hand, everything could be addictive if
0:27.2	there's an emptiness in that person that needs to be filled. I now know that nobody changes
0:32.5	until they change their energy. And when you change your energy, you change your life.
0:38.1	I'm Gwyneth Peltro. This is the Goop Podcast, bringing together thought leaders, culture
0:44.4	changers, creatives, founders and CEOs, scientists, doctors, healers and seekers. Here to start
0:51.6	conversations, because simply asking questions and listening has the power
0:56.1	to change the way we see the world. Here we go. Welcome to the Goop Podcast. I'm Gwyneth Paltrow,
1:04.8	and today I'm sitting down with a comedian, writer, and filmmaker who has a rare ability to hold humor and heartbreak at the same
1:13.3	time. We talk about her remarkable Oscar-nominated documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light,
1:20.3	which is a portrait of the amazing poet Andrea Gibson and the experience of bearing witness to a life at its end.
1:29.3	We discuss how some of life's darkest moments can also be the funniest, the meaning of true
1:35.2	friendship, and how loss has a way of opening us up into more of who we are.
1:41.6	Tig Nataro.
1:46.2	Hi. Hi. Hi.
1:48.4	I'm so excited to be talking to you.
1:51.2	Same. How's life?
1:54.5	Life is good. It's funny, I would hear people talk about awards season, and I was like,
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