{"id":12,"date":"2017-01-30T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/funnier-than-fiction\/?p=12"},"modified":"2017-01-30T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T19:47:36","slug":"tig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/funnier-than-fiction\/2017\/01\/30\/tig\/","title":{"rendered":"Tig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/funnier-than-fiction\/files\/2017\/01\/51nMocc3K9L._SS500-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/funnier-than-fiction\/files\/2017\/01\/51nMocc3K9L._SS500-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/funnier-than-fiction\/files\/2017\/01\/51nMocc3K9L._SS500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/funnier-than-fiction\/files\/2017\/01\/51nMocc3K9L._SS500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tig Notaro had cancer. &#8220;Hello, I have cancer, hello,&#8221; were her first words on stage at Largo in 2012. After having been hospitalized\u00a0for C-Diff and losing her mother, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Before her double mastectomy, she went on stage to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>The set\u00a0went viral. Louie C.K. published the comedy album on his website. I don&#8217;t want to make too many sweeping generalizations about Tig&#8217;s career, but the album seemed to resonate in ways that her comedy had not before. In the album at one point Tig says, &#8220;What if I just transitioned into real jokes?&#8221; and members of the audience shouted out, &#8220;No! This is amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is something special about the set she did, and it represents an interesting trend in comedy that could even demonstrate general trends in television and popular cultural tends.<\/p>\n<p>Personal narrative seems to be driving comedy in a more intense way than ever before.The set was praised by comedians, hailed by critics, and catapulted Tig as a sort of cult comedy hero. Since that set, Tig&#8217;s career has exploded. The story about the set and the surrounding year was chronicled in a Netflix documentary. The year was recorded in her memoir, &#8220;I&#8217;m just a person.&#8221; Tig now has a show on Amazon that deals with these highly personal issues called &#8220;One Mississippi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tig is not just a standup who talks about cancer. She&#8217;s incredibly dry deadpan style that\u00a0began her career. Her standup special &#8220;Boyish Girl Interrupted&#8221; tackles her personal tragedies, but mostly demonstrates Tig&#8217;s dry style and ability to take a silly story and make it into a ten minute long bit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tig Notaro&#039;s Lessons In Remaining Present | CONAN on TBS\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkwOrteyQtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This bit on Conan is great, because it addresses\u00a0her cancer, but it&#8217;s not serious. Before I explored Tig&#8217;s catalogue, I avoided her because I thought of her as &#8220;serious dreary comedian.&#8221;\u00a0But even though a lot of her material tackles serious issues, she also spends most of her time doing silly bits like this.<\/p>\n<p>So her personal narrative is not all Tig relies upon. But it is what gave her a multi-platform career. She is not alone in this. Louie C.K.&#8217;s personal style is conveyed both in his standup and his FX show, &#8220;Louie.&#8221; Pete Holmes, a standup, has a new show coming out HBO chronicling his early years of becoming a standup comedian and the personal trials he went through at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Is personal narrative essential to the multiple platform comic? This is what I will aim to explore over the course of the semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tig Notaro had cancer. &#8220;Hello, I have cancer, hello,&#8221; were her first words on stage at Largo in 2012. After having been hospitalized\u00a0for C-Diff and losing her mother, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. 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