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It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. So happy to welcome my next guest back to the show, TIG Nataro. TIG is, of course, a stand-up comedian, a Grammy and Emmy-nominated stand-up comedian. Unlike a lot of her colleagues, she didn't really get into stand-up until she was a

Vaughn grown-up. In her previous career, she had worked as a manager for bands.

She's known for her relatively flat delivery. Sometimes it's about things that are personal and

concrete, sometimes things that are very silly. Perhaps the most famous example of the former is that in

2012, she got a diagnosis of breast cancer. And when she got that diagnosis, she went on stage in L.A. and

talked about it directly, like right after she found out. That material became a special called Live or Live,

and a lot of you public radio folks might have heard some of it on This American Life.

The last time I talked to Tig, it was 2017. She just co-created her own television show,

One Mississippi, somewhat autobiographical dramedy, in which

TIG's character returns back home to Mississippi. It ran for two seasons on Amazon Prime,

and among other things, it had a storyline that directly paralleled the sexual misconduct of a

comedian whose name she couldn't get out of the show's production credits.

Since we last talked to her on our program, TIG has continued to thrive. She's been in countless

movies and TV shows. She's had three stand-up specials. The latest of them is Hello Again.

In it, TIG talks about parenthood, marriage, and about bizarre encounters

with airline employees. The clip I'm about to play is an example of the last thing.

TIG is talking about checking in for a flight, and because she is a comedian with

premium platinum super diamond membership or whatever she is invited to a very

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