Tig Notaro
Tig Notaro
Mathilde "Tig" O'Callaghan Notaro is an American stand-up comic, writer, radio contributor, and actress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth24 March 1971
CityJackson, MS
CountryUnited States of America
order bird documentaries
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
unlucky persons
I'm the luckiest unlucky person.
wrinkles hair age
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
tragedy right-now
I am just at tragedy right now.
coffee paper cigarette
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
girl mother country
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.
school trouble interest
I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.
dark thinking puppets
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.
mother fashion emotional
I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.
zero school guitar
As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.
graduation thinking moments
When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.
guitar people comedian
I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.
memories thinking feelings
I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.
fun good-luck people
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.