Tig Notaro
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Tig Notaro has been named one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time by Rolling Stone. She joins Sophia on "Work In Progress" to share her story, how she got interested in comedy and found her way to the microphone, what it's like to actually bomb a set, what happened when her stand-up set about having cancer went viral, and more.
Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Sim Sarna
Supervising Producer: Allison Bresnick
Associate Producer: Caitlin Lee
Editors: Josh Windisch and Matt Sasaki
Music written by Jack Garratt and produced by Mark Foster
Artwork by Kimi Selfridge
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Sophia Bush here and I am thrilled to tell you about the new original audio |
| 0:06.4 | book that I was lucky enough to narrate, called Wild and Precious, a celebration of Mary |
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| 0:35.5 | Our 20s are often seen as this golden decade, our time to be kept free, make mistakes, and |
| 0:40.9 | figure out our lives. But what can psychology teach us about this time? I'm Jemma Spig, the |
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| 1:19.2 | times when you take a good, hard look at your reality and ask, Now What do I do? It was |
| 1:25.4 | very controversial to be gay, and my agent didn't know if I should take the job because |
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| 1:51.5 | Hi everyone, Sophia Bush here. Welcome to work in progress, where I talk to people who inspire |
| 1:58.4 | me about how they got to where they are and where they think they're still going. |
| 2:02.2 | Hey, hey everyone. I am so excited for you all to hear from today's guest. I had actually |
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