Tig Notaro Returns: ‘Hello Again’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It’s been more than a decade since Tig Notaro broke through in a big way by walking onto the stand-up stage in Los Angeles and telling her audience, “Hello, I have cancer.” And for better or worse, she has even more medical scares to joke about in her latest special ‘Hello Again,’ streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. In this episode, which marks the five year anniversary of The Last Laugh, Notaro returns to the podcast to discuss how she manages to keep finding humor in these terrifying life experiences. The comedian also opens up about collaborating with her wife Stephanie Allyne, who directed the new special, getting heckled by her twin boys at a charity event, mining her awkward interactions with celebrity friends for comedy and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and we have a very exciting episode for you today because, believe it or not, it was exactly five years ago this week that we premiered this podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | And we have one of my all-time favorite comedians back on the show to help us celebrate, |
| 0:23.6 | TIG Notaro. |
| 0:25.3 | More on TIG in a minute, but first, I want to thank all of you for listening to The Last |
| 0:29.4 | Laugh, whether you've been with us from our very first episode with Sarah Silverman in March |
| 0:34.1 | of 2019, or have hopped on board more recently. |
| 0:37.7 | This podcast has brought me so much joy over the past five years, and we literally could not |
| 0:42.7 | have done it without you guys. |
| 0:44.7 | So please keep listening, and if you like the show, tell your friends, and take a minute |
| 0:49.5 | to leave a rating and review on Apple or Spotify. |
| 0:52.7 | I realize I say that in every episode, but it would mean |
| 0:55.8 | a lot to me, especially this week. Among our many fans, I found out this past week, is Fresno |
| 1:02.2 | State Professor David Lowe, who just put out a new book called Transgressive Humor in Classrooms |
| 1:07.6 | that cites my interviews with Hassan Minhaj, Virdas, Harikandabolu, and others. |
| 1:13.5 | So definitely check that out if you're interested, and we'll put a link to purchase it |
| 1:17.0 | in the description for this episode as well. |
| 1:19.7 | We have even more exciting changes to this show that I'm eager to let you know about in the |
| 1:24.2 | coming weeks, but I don't want to spend too much more time before getting into this very fun conversation with Tig Notaro. I feel like I don't actually need to |
| 1:32.9 | tell you too much about Tig besides the fact that her newest hour-long special Hello Again, |
| 1:38.0 | directed by her also hilarious wife, Stephanie Allen, is streaming now on Amazon Prime video and is just fantastic. |
| 1:46.3 | Okay, I know I just said I don't want to delay the interview any further, but before we get |
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