Tig Notaro: 'Thank You, Thank You, I Have Cancer, Thank You, I Have Cancer, Really, Thank You'

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Here's Louis C.K., tweeting about Tig Notaro's stand-up comedy set at L.A. club Largo on Saturday night: "In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo." What exactly went down? Notaro, a 41-year-old comedy veteran enjoying a recent upswing in her career, explained to the audience she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and then went on to do some tear-inducing comedy about it.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/54654/comedian-tig-notaro-thank-you-thank-you-i-have-cancer-thank-you-i-have-cancer-really-thank-you

But she didn’t just have cancer. She went on to explain that in some manic twist of fate, while her career is at an all-time high — she is moving to New York to work on Amy Schumer’s new television show, she was on This American Life — concurrently, all these terrible circumstances have befallen her over the past 3 months: pneumonia made way for a debilitating bacterial infection in her digestive tract for which she was hospitalized and lost 30 pounds off of her already small frame, days after being released from the hospital, her young mother died suddenly and tragically (fell, hit her head, died), then she and her partner broke up, and then, now, cancer. In both breasts. (“You have a lump.” “No, doctor, that’s my breast.” — one of her most renowned bits is about someone remarking upon her small breasts)

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Here's a previous excerpt of her earlier work: