Tig Notaro

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Tig Notaro is a standup comic, actor, podcast host. Last year, she produced a documentary called Come See Me in the Good Light. It was shot during what would be the last year of poet Andrea Gibson’s life, before they died in July of 2025 after a years-long battle with terminal ovarian cancer. Notaro talks to Bullseye about processing the death of Andrea Gibson in the middle of doing press for a film about them, and she reflects on the sheer chaos of simply living life, even though she doesn’t have to tour for work right now.

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0:00.0	Hey, Bullseye friends, it's Jesse. We have an incredible conversation coming up with my friend and your friend, the great Tignitaro.
0:08.7	We're going to talk about her Oscar-nominated documentary, Come See Me in the Good Light, and how making that film changed her life.
0:15.8	Among many other things, it is always insightful and hilarious to talk TIG. Now, Bullseye is directly supported by its
0:25.2	audience by folks who go to maximumfund.org slash join right now during what we call the MaxFund
0:30.4	Drive to become a member of Maximum Fund and support our work. I don't know if you know this
0:35.4	about my friend Tick, but she is an enthusiastic cook,
0:38.5	and you will hear on the air as I back her into a corner and get her to promise to make a
0:44.5	cooking show with me if we hit our MaxFund Drive goal. TIG has agreed to host me probably in her
0:50.8	home, especially because we don't have a stove in the office anymore, and do some
0:56.2	vegan cooking with me for video, audio, everything else. It's going to be a great time.
1:02.0	To get there, we need you to join Maximum Fun or upgrade your membership.
1:06.5	Go to Maximumfund.org slash join. That link is also in the show notes. Maximumfund.org
1:13.5	slash join and become a member. Don't delay. Do it right now. That's maximum fund.org
1:19.4	slash join. Let's get into this conversation with TIG.
1:23.9	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
1:43.9	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne. Tig Nataro, stand-up comedian and actor, has been spending more time at home lately.
1:50.7	It's nice. No grueling multi-week tours across the United States and Canada. She has time to go to baseball practice with her kids, take a walk with her wife.
2:00.1	But does that mean that she is resting on her
2:02.0	laurels? It does not. In fact, TIG just wrapped up her work on Come See Me in the Good Light. It's a
2:08.7	documentary she produced. Come See Me profiles poet Andrea Gibson, their life, their work, and their
2:14.7	years-long battle with terminal ovarian cancer.
2:18.1	It's a beautiful film. It won a bunch of awards, including festival favorite at Sundance,
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