“One Mississippi” is gone but Tig Notaro is staying busy. The comedian is heading to space as a guest star in the second season of “Star Trek: Discovery” on CBS All Access and Netflix just announced that she has a stand-up special on the way.
Scheduled to drop May 22, “Tig Notaro Happy To Be Here” sees the “Transparent” alumna tackling “the comedic sides of marriage, parenting, and being invited to an Ellen DeGeneres party, then closes the set with a tease that will leave you on the edge of your seat.” The set was filmed in Houston, Texas.
“Happy To Be Here” marks Notaro’s second stand-up special. Her first, HBO’s Emmy-nominated “Boyish Girl Interrupted,” premiered in 2015. Netflix released “Tig” that same year. Directed by Kristina Goolsby and Ashley York, the documentary follows Notaro in the aftermath of a breast cancer diagnosis and a personal tragedy.
Amazon announced the cancellation of “One Mississippi” back in January. The critically acclaimed comedy ran for two seasons. Created by Notaro and “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody, the semi-autobiographical series starred the former as an LA-based radio host who returns to Mississippi after learning that her mother will be taken off life support just as she herself is recovering from a double mastectomy.
“I don’t think about [the state of women in comedy] until somebody asks me,” Notaro has said. “People would say when I started doing stand-up, that it’s a guys’ world, and guys are jerks out there, and the road’s tough. And I just didn’t have a problem. I just did stand-up and focused on it and it got better. And I got on the road and people were really friendly — audiences, other comedians, club owners. I don’t want to do it again, but I really don’t have a complaint in the world about being a woman or how I’ve been treated,” she explained. “If people didn’t like me I never blamed it on any particular thing. I just figured they didn’t like me.”
Notaro suggested that the entertainment industry can do better by women by offering them “more opportunities and equal pay.”
