-My next guest is an Emmy- and Grammy-nominated comedian
who has a new animated stand-up special
called "Tig Notaro: Drawn"
which premieres July 24th at 10:00 p.m. on HBO
and will also be available on HBO Max.
Please welcome Tig Notaro!
-♪ It's Tig Notaro, the girl is incredible ♪
♪ She's animated in a TV show called "Drawn" ♪
♪ It's Tig Notaro changing up her tune ♪
♪ Might not recognize her 'cause now she's a cartoon ♪
♪ Yeah ♪ -It's a very big move.
-Tig Notaro. That's Tig Notaro right there.
-How come -- How come you didn't have me on
to do that game?
[ Laughter ]
-"The Mimic"? I didn't know that you could do, uh, sounds.
-Yeah, well, I'm known for them.
[ Laughter ]
-I didn't know that you were known for them.
There's other things that I think you were known for,
but sounds -- you doing -- mimicking sounds?
-Yes.
For instance,
this is a spring.
Doi-oi-oi-oi-oi-oing.
[ Cheers and applause ]
♪♪
[ Bell dings ]
[ Applause ]
The next one is a curtain opening.
-[ Laughing ] Okay.
-[ Sniffing sharply ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Bell dings ]
♪♪
-[ Laughing ]
That's really good.
-Thank you. -That's really well done.
I love that one. Yeah.
-Well, prepare yourself, because...
[ Laughter ]
...this is a clown horn.
[ Honks, wheezes ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Imitating horn honking ]
[ Bell dings ] -Whoa, why didn't we do that?
We should have had Tig play the game.
You could have played against Tom Hiddleston and crushed him.
[ Imitates horn honk ]
[ Laughter ]
[ Imitating horn honking ] -I got you. I heard you, yeah,
I -- Thank you.
[ Laughter ]
You -- Tig, your kids just turned 5.
-They did. They turned 5.
-Yeah, and you posted this revelation
that they had about getting older.
-Mm-hmm. -And I thought it was touching.
I thought it was nice.
-Well, yeah, they were in preschool.
You know, when the pandemic started, they were 3.
We pulled them out and kept them home.
And then they were returning to a new school
that was starting with summer school
that was going to just turn into junior kindergarten.
And they are 5 now.
And when they saw their old backpacks hanging,
they said, "Uh, we are not bringing our old backpacks.
Those are for babies."
-I'm so sad. I mean, here's the old backpack.
-Yeah. They were like, "No way.
We are big boys now.
We're not bringing our old backpacks."
-So you got them new backpacks.
-Well, they had these, but they dug them out,
because they realized they were the big boy backpacks,
and so they wanted to start bringing those now.
-Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-So, it's goodbye, childhood.
[ Laughter ]
Hello, real world.
[ Laughter ]
-That's was the cutest -- Come on.
That's the best thing ever.
-And if you could go in closer,
it has little feet dangling
for when they get to the office, you know?
-Absolutely, right?
I thought that was so cute.
I want to talk about "Tig Notaro: Drawn."
-Yeah. -This is your stand-up special,
but the whole thing is animated.
-Yeah, it's fully animated and --
-Where'd you get the idea for this?
-Well, it's been around, animating stand-up.
In fact, you know, there's TV shows,
and other comedians have used it in their specials, and my --
-I haven't seen a full special, though.
-No, I think not start to finish.
There's no actual, live Tig in the special.
-It is fantastic,
'cause there's a bunch of different Tigs in this.
There's different versions of you.
-Yeah. It's really interesting when people draw you,
because it's flattering, but it's also
like, "Oh.
That's how you see me."
[ Laughter ]
Or, "Am I that unattractive?"
-No, stop. Come on. -You know?
-Stop it. -I mean, it's just a funny thing
when you see yourself. -Yeah.
-Because it truly is flattering.
-This is "Tig Notaro: Drawn."
Take a look at this.
-And there was this woman that annoyed me to no end.
And when I was cleaning up, sweeping, she was talking to me,
and I rarely paid attention to what she said.
And this was so long ago.
And she was, like, going on and on about dinosaurs
and how they were, you know, eating people.
And I was like, "Wait, what?
Why are we just standing here --"
And she's like, "Yeah, like, scientists, you know,
took an insect and took the blood and --"
And I was like, "And they're just running around
eating people." She's like, "Yes,
I can't believe you haven't heard about this."
Had no idea it was "Jurassic Park."
[ Laughter ]
-Tig Notaro. Check out "Tig Notaro: Drawn"
July 24th at 10:00 p.m. on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.