Funny Side Up. Tig Notaro turned a health crisis into an iconic comedy set. Now what?

摘要

Last August, Comedian Louis Ck Witnessed something special. "In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful stand-up sets," he marveled to his millions of Twitter followers. "One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo." Prior to that night, Notaro, 42, had achieved success within stand-up circles with a popular podcast, a busy touring schedule and some TV-writing gigs, but such praise from one of mainstream comedy's most admired talents set her apart. In the days that followed, other comedians who were at that August show took to the Web to tell what they had seen. Notaro was approached about crafting a book from her material. By the time she visited New York City in June, almost a year after the set that sparked the frenzy, her schedule was so full that she almost snubbed Louis CK when he called her to hang out. "I told him, 'Because of you, I'm so busy that I don't have time for you anymore,'" Notaro recalls, with a hint of awe in her voice.