Following her critically acclaimed sell-out Edinburgh Festival run last year with her debut UK show ‘Boyish Girl Interrupted’, Grammy-nominated comedian Tig Notaro has announced her first UK tour. The tour takes in London, Manchester, Birmingham & Glasgow this September and are her first UK dates outside Edinburgh. Click on "next" below on the right for dates and booking details.
On August 3, 2012 at the Largo Theater in Los Angeles, Notaro made a seemingly nonchalant detour in her stand-up routine to announce that she had breast cancer, just days after being diagnosed. Her blend of humour and matter of fact approach left comedy fans riveted, many in both tears and laughter. Louis CK wrote to his twitter followers: “In my 27 years doing this I have seen a handful of truly masterful performances. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.” This set was recorded, and became Tig’s sophomore album Live (as in, want to live, not perform live). Live encompasses the previous four months of Tig’s life leading up to that night at Largo.
Live has now gone on to sell over 100,000 units, which is unheard of for comedy albums these days. During 2012 and this album release, Tig has been reviewed and profiled by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine, Rolling Stone and Time Magazine amongst many others. The Grammy nominated album was also ranked #1 comedy album of 2012 by Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine and The Onion AV Club and Tig herself was recently ranked #21 on Rolling Stone’s “50 Funniest People in the World Now” list.
Tig's project with Showtime, entitled, Knock Knock, It’s Tig Notaro, follows Tig as she performs in the actual homes of selected fans across the country. She also recently appeared in the movie In a World, and is due to appear in Walk of Shame opposite Elizabeth Banks, and Shreveport opposite Ryan Phillippe, both due out this year. Tig continues to host her weekly podcast, Professor Blastoff, which has consistently been in the top 10 iTunes comedy podcast charts. In addition, She has a book deal with Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins.
Read a review of her Edinburgh show here.
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