Tig Notaro

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Tig Notaro had the worst month of her life. Then, she had her big break because of it.Tig has always been a wild child, from growing up with a free spirit of a mother, to repeating eighth grade (twice) before dropping out of school entirely, to performing half her stand-up set with her shirt off after having a double mastectomy. With Dan Le Batard, Tig explores where her own “go to hell” energy comes from. Tig also speaks about being an Oscar-nominated producer for her work on “Come See Me In The Good Light,” a documentary following the death of her friend and poet, Andrea Gibson. She also looks at why, despite being a ridiculously funny comedian, some of her greatest successes also deal with deep grief. See Tig live on tour - go to TigNation.com for dates and tickets, and subscribe to the "Handsome" podcast, hosted by Tig and fellow comedians Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. I'm very excited to do this.
0:29.2	It seems to me like you're in full blossom.
0:31.5	So I'm going to introduce you to the audience and tell you, tignation.com is where you get tickets, tour date, saw her in Fort Lauderdale.
0:38.1	It was a lovely show. She's back on stand-up comedy. It's nice to see you there again.
0:42.8	Actor, comedian, best-selling author, producer, director. Which of those do you like best? Like the sound of best, not doing?
0:55.2	Podcasting. Oh, wow, handsome of best, not doing? Podcasting.
0:56.0	Oh, wow, handsome.
0:57.1	Okay, so it's the intimacy of podcasting, or you're just trying to throw me off balance at the top?
1:02.4	Yeah.
1:03.6	Well, I'm not interested in directing anymore.
1:07.3	I really enjoy producing.
1:10.8	Stand-up is like breathing, and I really do enjoy podcasting.
1:16.3	But why are you not going to do directing anymore?
1:18.8	Because all the problems come to you?
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:21.0	I mean, I've directed a bunch of comedy specials, which I've enjoyed, whether it was my own or other comedians.
1:29.3	But my wife and I, we co-directed a movie called, Am I Okay.
1:35.3	Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno starred in it.
1:39.3	And as soon as we got started working on this together, it was so clear my wife is a director and I'm not.
1:49.2	Because anybody, yeah, if you're directing a movie, everybody is coming to you to ask the big and the small questions.
1:58.5	So it's not just like where where do you want the camera set up? It's also
2:06.7	like, hey, TIG, do you want a silver pen or a purple pen on the desk? And I would be just like,
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