Tig Notaro

No.

Sometimes when I do interviews, they'll lead in to a segment of a show with an audio clip and I have to take my headphones off.

People think, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sure that's hard for you to hear because it brings back bad memories, but it's not even that.

It's that because I didn't intend for the world to hear it, it's so...

Not worked out material.

Yeah.

It was like a open mic.

I'm fine with it being out there and people would say this is going to help a lot of people and I was like, because I didn't agree to release it right away.

It took me maybe a month or so to think it through because I was like, that was, this is not for the public.

Like, sure, I was on stage in front of a crowd, but

No.

That's what you do when you do an open mic.

There's a crowd there.

But is that going to be your album?

Absolutely not.

And the fact that it became that, oh, my God, as soon as I hear my voice, I'm like, oh, boy.

Well, yeah, and so many comedians, myself included, even after you work out your new material, you tour it around, and then you record your album or your special, that comes out for public consumption, and then you still have notes.

I mean, I know I do, where I'm watching it going, oh.

I should, you're always tweaking and fine tuning and rewriting and moving things around.

And so for me to just go on stage and do that show and then that be pressed into an album, it was, I had to just make a decision.