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You know, there's moments

of sadness and realization.

You know, my mother's

not in the house and, um...

My mother's dead.

Ric?

I'm in here, Tig.

Hi.

My mother and I had very

up and down times in our relationship,

but we loved each other so tremendously.

My mother was hilarious,

very silly and ridiculous,

and wild and crazy.

Not concerned at all about

what anybody thought about her.

My mother was very comfortable

when things were uncomfortable.

And my humor is

directly tied to her sensibility.

She was very into pranks.

Friends would come over to eat,

and she'd be like, "Tig,

I'm dying everyone's potatoes blue.

Don't tell your friends."

And I'd be like,

"Okay." You know.

And so we would all pretend

like mashed potatoes are blue.

She had this fierce inner strength.

When I had issues as a kid, like,

"Oh, this is happening,"

she would always be like, you know,

"Tell 'em to go to hell.

If they have a problem,

tell 'em to go to hell."

And it just... It gave me this confidence

to not question myself or doubt myself.

A parent is supposed

to understand a child,

and I'd never really understood Tig.

I had a model of what a person should do,

and Tig was having nothing of that.

My mother understood me in a way

that was different from other people.

When I lost my mother,

I truly lost the person

that understood me the most.

When I was at my mother's house

after she died, I was really devastated.

And I was still so ill.

So it just seemed to be this tunnel

that I would see the light at the end,

but then it was like somebody

put another tunnel on it.

- Take care. I love you.

- All right. I love you, too.

I needed something positive to happen.

We had this show booked

where we were gonna do an episode

of This American Life.

We were gonna do it onstage

in New York City,

and beam it into movie theaters

around the country.

And, uh, Tig was one of the performers.

Ira and I were planning

this show for nine months.

I was warning him I had been sick,

and he said,

"Don't push yourself.

We can do this another time."

And I was just like,

"You don't understand."

And I felt like, "If I could just get to

New York and do This American Life,

I would feel like finally

I was coming through something."

Welcome comedian Tig Notaro.

I went to this party with my friend Pam,

and we were going to leave the party,

and she said to me,

"Do you know who that was

standing by the door?"

I said, "No."

She said, "That was Taylor Dayne."

Do you know who Taylor Dayne is? No?

She was a pop singer

in the late '80s, early '90s.

She sang "Love Will Lead You Back."

Anyway, I love Taylor Dayne,

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