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COMEDY
HUFFINGTON
12.02.12
How to Take
a Comic’s
Breath Away
BY ROSS LUIPPOLD
N AUGUST, Tig Notaro
took the stage at the
nightclub Largo in Los
Angeles for a show that
was expected to be a typical Notaro performance: wry, acerbic and
playful. But when a smiling Notaro
opened by telling the applauding
audience, “thank you, thank you, I
have cancer, thank you, I have cancer, really, thank you,” the jolt in
the room was palpable. What kind
of person tells the world about her
breast cancer diagnosis in a performance medium normally reserved
for quips on airline food?
The kind that has been producing
some of the most inventive, if not
STEVEN DEWALL/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES
I
Comedian
Tig Notaro
at the at
Sasquatch!
Music
Festival in
May of 2011.