Tig Notaro

About

Mathilde "Tig" O'Callaghan Notaro (born March 24, 1971)is Grammy Award nominated American stand-up comic, writer, and radio contributor.

Notaro was born in Jackson, Mississippi to mother Mathilde "Susie" Cusack (née O'Callaghan).Notaro was raised in Pass Christian, Mississippi until kindergarten. Her family later moved to a small town outside of Houston, Texas called Spring, Texas.Her mother remarried, to an attorney in the military named Leslie Cusack, who Notaro said traveled a lot for his job.She has an older brother, Renaud Notaro, who is a year older than her and is a radio talk show host.

Notaro said she used to "go back and spend my summers and holidays with my grandmother and cousins and aunts and uncles. It's right there on the Gulf Coast, and we would hang out on the water and go sailing or fishing or crabbing or floundering and build bonfires and there's a harbor there and a yacht club. And then Hurricane Katrina came and wiped it out. That was devastating. My mother grew up in that town and my family's been there for generations, so it was very sad to see these historic buildings and places where I had so many memories get wiped away.