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and not ironically.

And I went up to her, and I said,

"Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you,

but I just have to tell you,

I love your voice."

And she just turned and said,

"Yeah, I don't do that anymore."

Tig is a really pure

kind of deadpan,

incredibly special performer.

She's somebody

who is just in no hurry at all.

Like, it's just somebody

with such supreme confidence

that she will just

pause and hold a moment.

Then, like, nine months passed.

And I happened to be out to eat

with that same friend of mine, Pam.

And there was a party of ten

seated right behind us.

You guys are not gonna believe

who was sitting there.

Any guesses?

- What's that?

- Taylor Dayne.

That's correct.

It was Taylor Dayne.

Tig really

just brought down the house.

And immediately when we got done

with that, I was like,

"Okay, what else you got?

You're now, like, an audience favorite.

Like, you know, our whole radio audience,

millions of people,

they wanna hear you again.

What else you got?"

He suggested doing a piece

about the recent tragedies in my life.

He said, "You need to do that on stage."

Well, first of all, she made it clear,

she had no interest in that at all.

I guess there was a part of me

that was a little offended

that he would think that

there was humor in this.

She didn't know

how she would go about that,

and she was just, like, it didn't seem fun

or interesting in any way at all.

Like, of course he knew

I was not gonna do this material.

Like, what, "My mother died, and I

can't eat food and I'm withering away.

Ladies, you know what I'm talking about."

You know, it's like, what?

Where is the humor? I didn't get it.

And then, I found a lump.

The doctor came in and she said,

"We saw the lump.

We found another one."

And I said, "Wait a minute.

Are you saying that I have cancer?"

She said, "It is very likely that you do."

And I was like...

Immediately in my head, I was like,

"Wait a minute. My mother just died.

How could this happen?

Like, I've already been through all this."

Like, I wanted to pull out

these calling cards.

Like, "No, look,

I just went through all this stuff,

and I can't have cancer."

I happened to be sobbing

on the sidewalk,

and Flanagan,

the owner of Largo, sent me a text,

"Are we doing the show or not?"

I just... I love stand-up so much.

I wanted to do it one more time.

Maybe that seems utterly insane,

but as soon as

I was diagnosed with cancer,

everything came over me as funny.

And I got a sense of humor

'cause it just was so ridiculous.

After everything that had happened,

I have cancer?

And so, I just started writing.

That was such a major risk,

'cause it could have

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