Tig Notaro on Louis C.K., Jennifer Aniston and ‘The Office’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tig Notaro opens up about moving on from ‘One Mississippi’ and Louis C.K., the fundamental silliness of her online talk show ‘Under a Rock’ and why decided to host her new advice podcast ‘Don’t Ask Tig.’ She also tells a hilarious story about the time she guest-starred on ‘The Office,’ shares an update on her forthcoming Netflix film in which she plays the first lady opposite Jennifer Aniston’s president and reveals that she has taken on a whole new career during quarantine.
This episode was originally published on July 28th, 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today on the show, |
| 0:10.9 | we are revisiting the interview I did with one of my all-time favorite comedians, Tegno Taro. |
| 0:18.4 | Now, thanks to her role in Zach Snyder's Army of the Dead, now streaming on Netflix, |
| 0:23.6 | she's also a badass action star. TIG and I talked on Zoom last summer, exactly eight years |
| 0:31.0 | after she shocked the comedy world by walking on stage at the Largo Theater in Los Angeles |
| 0:36.9 | and announcing that she had been |
| 0:38.5 | diagnosed with cancer. She opened up about what it feels like to finally be completely healthy, |
| 0:44.8 | and why she hasn't missed the stand-up stage as much as she would have thought during the COVID |
| 0:49.6 | lockdown. We also talked about her new podcast, Don't Ask Tig, the upcoming movie in which she will play |
| 0:56.3 | first lady to Jennifer Aniston's president, her extremely complicated history with Louis C.K., and a ton |
| 1:03.6 | more. So let's go to that now. Here's me with the great TIG Notaro. I'm so excited to have you on this show just because I'm such a huge fan of yours. |
| 1:13.7 | Your kind. |
| 1:14.3 | Has it been tough to be stuck at home at all, |
| 1:16.5 | and especially not able to get up on stage, |
| 1:18.5 | not able to perform in the way that you normally would be? |
| 1:21.9 | You know, I think it's funny because I feel like I struggle with moments where I think, gosh, am I not a real comedian? |
| 1:33.8 | Because after I had children, I was okay with scaling back my time and with doing the road or getting up on stage around town. |
| 1:45.2 | And I felt really happy and fulfilled being home. |
| 1:49.3 | And then I felt really happy and fulfilled when I actually went on tour and performed. |
| 1:55.0 | When I do my local Largo show in Los Angeles, |
| 1:57.8 | I'm usually on stage for an hour and a half, |
| 1:59.9 | really trying out new material |
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