In a short four months comedian Tig Notaro got pneumonia, contracted a deadly bacterial infection, broke up with her girlfriend, lost her mom, and was diagnosed with breast cancer. A few days after her cancer diagnosis, she got on stage at Largo and delivered one of the bravest, most honest, and funniest stand-up sets you’ll…
Unfortunately the embeddable preview clip for Tig’s set is no longer available. You can, however, still listen to it over at “This American Life.”
In the meantime, if you’d like to get more of Tig’s brilliant wisdom, check out the advice she gave to these three teenage girls.
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