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I'm Just a Person by Tig Notaro6/22/2023 ![]() People are like, ‘Oh, that was such good acting.’ I’m like, ‘I wasn’t acting. Were there other possible sitcoms in your past? Ones where you played, say, a librarian, or owned a motorcycle shop? I spoke with Notaro on the eve of her series’ premiere. ![]() It is also a small-town comedy, with romance. I have cancer” turned her overnight from a working comic to a famous one, the circumstances of a very bad year - a near-fatal intestinal infection, the sudden death of her mother and a diagnosis of invasive breast cancer - have become an album, a documentary film (Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York’s 2015 “Tig”), a book, “I’m Just a Person” (Ecco) and now a television series, “One Mississippi.” While this was happening, she fell in love, got married, and in June became the mother of twin boys.Ĭreated by Notaro and “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody and executive produced by Louis C.K., “One Mississippi,” which premieres Friday on Amazon, semi-fictionally tells the story of Notaro’s return home, while still ill, to her mother’s deathbed and the house of a remote and quirky stepfather. ![]() Since the 2012 standup set at L.A.’s Largo that began, “Hello. ![]()
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