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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.511.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Tig Notaro dropped out of high school. She drifted between odd jobs for a long time and eventually found her way to Colorado, where she discovered open mic nights and a talent for stand-up comedy. Stand-up brought discipline to her life. But fame eluded her until 2012, when she released "Live," the comedy album of the stand-up set she performed just four days after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and soon after her mother suddenly passed away. Now, Notaro has her own show, "One Mississippi," on Amazon Prime. The show is semi-autobiographical, and she plays a version of herself, a radio host who recently lost her mother and struggles after a double mastectomy. As we discuss here, "One Mississippi" brilliantly tackles workplace sexual harassment, in terms all too familiar in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations. And it doesn’t stop within the boundaries of the show: Notaro has said that Louis CK, one of her executive producers, needs to “handle” the sexual harassment allegations that have swirled around him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you think Donald Trump is making comedy worse?

0:03.0

I mean, he's making everything worse.

0:18.0

Hello, welcome to Mr. Clancho. I'm Mr. Clan.

0:20.0

This is on the Vox Media podcast network.

0:22.0

My guest this week is Tignitaro, an amazing comedian.

0:25.0

She's done a ton of huge specials.

0:29.0

She is the lead actor and writer and mind behind one Mississippi,

0:35.0

which is an Amazon show that is just incredible.

0:37.0

If you don't watch it, you really should not only am I a fan of it,

0:40.0

but my producer, Jillian Weinberg is a huge fan,

0:42.0

our executive editor, Alison Rocky is a huge fan.

0:45.0

There's a ton of one Mississippi fans here.

0:47.0

She's also the producer of one of DC's really great comedy institutions,

0:50.0

the annual Benson Ball.

0:52.0

We're talking about that, and you should check that out if you're in DC.

0:55.0

It is this very week.

0:56.0

If you were listening to this podcast in real time,

0:58.0

it is happening in a couple of days.

1:00.0

And you can, we tell you where to get tickets here at the end of the show.

1:04.0

We also talk in this about Nataro's schooling background.

1:07.0

Like me, she was a very bad student.

1:09.0

She dropped out of high school,

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