Tig Notaro

the ultimate artistic mother i mean she was very comedic she was but what are you laughing at there you're laughing at something well i'm just like my mother was uh she was wild she was an artist she was a painter she was the back of our house as her canvas and um

She was very funny.

She was a prankster.

She was all of these things.

She was wild.

And it gave me a very different perspective.

And she used to tell me to tell everyone to go to hell that had a problem with me.

And I think that deep...

uh just instilled message allowed me to be who I wanted to be and explore what I wanted to explore because she was an artist um and uh but yeah I was I was uh

we were different in that she was a little, way more energy than I had.

But I think I was kind of a reaction to her.

She was more theatrical.

And I was a little like, oh boy.

But her sensibility has stuck with me.

And

But, yeah, I just I think it all kind of came from there.

And it's funny, you know, I'm from Mississippi and people are always like, what is going on in the south?

What's going on in Mississippi?

Everybody's got some crazy story to tell.

Where does that come from?