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Jun 1, 2016 · Tig Notaro, a comedian who survived breast cancer and a rare infection, shares her story of overcoming tragedy and finding happiness with her wife and twins. Read how she turned her struggles into comedy gold and her upcoming memoir.
- Tig Notaro's Unbelievable Cancer Diagnosis
- Finding The Humor in Cancer
- On Going Flat
- How Cancer Prepared Her For Covid
- Looking Back and Going Forward
- Positivity Overload
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"I really was the person that did not believe I could have cancer," she tells SurvivorNet. "I thought I was too young, and I didn't know anyone in my family that had had breast cancer. I did not think it was anything. I was completely shocked." Related: The Flat Movement: Embracing Your Body After Treatment She said during the mammogramthe technici...
Throughout her battle with cancer, during which she underwent chemotherapy and a dobule mastectomy, she clung to her comedic roots and found humor in her situation. "Good evening everyone! I have cancer, how are you?" That was the stunning opening she delivered to a live audience in Los Angeles shortly after her diagnosis. That show went viral as h...
Following her double mastectomy, Notaro opted not to have reconstructive surgery and to "go flat" as a growing number of women are doing. "I think that you know it was a choice I made out of just getting more connected with my body to begin with with my diagnosis," Notaro tells SurvivorNet. "I hadn't really thought about my body too much in the way...
This year brought the COVID-19 pandemic, during which she says she's been essentially on lockdown in her California home. She and her wife, Stephanie Allynne, created a pod with a couple families that have kids the same age as theirs so they can play together, and Stephanie works in an office space, but she's the only one there. The only other exce...
Though Notaro has been cancer-free for seven years now, that doesn't mean she doesn't still feel its possibilities. "I still worry. Even though I've been in remission for a few years I still have scares and surgeries and operations and different things doctors have been watching. It's not just like I was just in remission and was not concerned abou...
What wasn't helpful: Too much positivity. "It really meant a lot to me when people didn't really just completely overrun me with positivity," Notaro tells SurvivorNet. "That's what I felt like when somebody comes on really strong with only positive things to say, I know they mean well, but it kind of squelches the real fear of the person diagnosed....
Tig Notaro was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 and underwent a double mastectomy without reconstruction. She shares how her cancer battle prepared her for the COVID-19 pandemic and how she found humor and strength in the face of adversity.
Aug 13, 2015 · Tig Notaro allowed her emotional breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy to be chronicled in the new documentary "Tig," but behind the scenes, the comedian's procedure was being met with a very different reaction. "I had a few people congratulate me," Notaro recalled in a HuffPost Live conversation on Wednesday.
Oct 19, 2012 · O n 3 August this year, American comedian Tig Notaro walked onstage at Los Angeles club Largo and announced, "Hello. Good evening, hello. I have cancer." What followed were 29 minutes of standup ...
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Nov 4, 2022 · The comedian Tig Notaro is perhaps most famous for her 2012 stand-up set in Los Angeles during which she revealed a recent cancer diagnosis. “With humor, the equation is tragedy plus time equals ...
Aug 15, 2020 · Comedian Tig Notaro shares how she used humor and storytelling to deal with her breast cancer diagnosis and other hardships. She also talks about how she is adapting to the pandemic and spending more time with her family.
Oct 17, 2019 · C omedian Tig Notaro said receiving her cancer diagnosis in 2012—which followed a series of tragic events that had upended her life—was so horrific, she had to laugh. Notaro, known for ...
