What Doesn't Kill You

Speaking of facing grief with dignity and NOT the standard decorum...

I just listened again to comedian Tig Notaro's mostly ad-libbed show from last summer—just days after her cancer diagnosis. It took my breath away. Here's how this article describes it:

"A frightfully nervous Tig Notaro stood just offstage at the Los Angeles club Largo while Ed Helms introduced her. The audience of 300 and Miss Notaro's fellow performers that August night had no idea what she was about to do. They had no idea she was going to address the trauma and pain that had been the past few months of her life, or relay the bad news she had received just days earlier. They had no idea she was about to perform the bravest set they had ever seen..."

The whole recording is available on iTunes. A free excerpt of it is here.