Tig Notaro Performed Some Amazing Comedy About Being Diagnosed with Cancer, According to Everyone
LatestOn Friday night, comedian Tig Notaro launched into a set at the Largo in Los Angeles that is already morphing into legend — after Ed Helms welcomed her onto the stage, she told the audience, “Thank you, thank you, I have cancer, thank you, I have cancer, really, thank you.” When Notaro finished telling her rapt audience all about how, just as she was notching one professional accomplishment after another, she had been diagnosed with cancer in both of her breasts, Louis C.K., Bill Burr, Ed Helms, and pretty much everyone else in attendance echoed the same sentiment: Tig Notaro’s set was fucking great.
Comedian Kira Hesser attended the show and blogged very articulately about listening to Notaro’s hilariously poignant story unspool onstage. Notaro whisks her audience through a tumultuous time line checkered with professional highs and health problems. She’d been preparing to relocate to New York to work on Amy Schumer’s new TV show, and had recently been featured on “This American Life.” Over the past three months, however, her body has been under near-constant siege — pneumonia paved the way for a bacterial infection in her digestive tract, for which she was hospitalized. During the ordeal she lost 30 lbs. and, just days after she was released, her mother died suddenly. And she broke up with her girlfriend. And, after all that whole shitty odyssey, she now has cancer in both breasts.