Brooklyn Vegan — The festival take place June 2-4 in San Francisco and also features Also on the lineup: Bob Odenkirk, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph's Prince tribute act Princess, Ty Segall, Vince Staples, Reggie Watts, Tig Notaro, Pete Davidson, a live taping on t... more info

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Consequence of Sound — Funny or Die will present the Planned Parenthood benefit show at the famed 9:30 Club. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Downtown Los Angeles is playing host to the Riot LA Comedy Fest this year. It goes down from January 19-22 at various venues in the city, and boasts a stacked lineup... Continue reading… more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — UNDERRATED John Rothman in ‘One Mississippi’: A character actor who has been seen in the likes of “Damages,” “Synecdoche, New York” and various cogs in the “Law & Order” universe, Rothman is maybe the ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Tig Notaro has been busy. Since the 2012 standup set at L.A.'s Largo that began, "Hello. Good evening, hello. I have cancer" turned her overnight from a working comic to a famous one, the circumstances of a very bad year — a near-fatal intesti... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — For Tig Notaro fans, the six-episode first season of her semi-autobiographical series “One Mississippi” may seem, at least initially, to be an experiment in artistic repurposing. Here is Tig, played by Notaro (albeit co-written by Diab... more info

Time — On Friday, debuts One Mississippi, a six-episode series based on the real-life trials of comedian Tig Notaro, who dealt with a life-threatening infection, the death of her mother and breast cancer in short order. If that sounds unfunny, you don’t k... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Louis C.K. may have put his own sitcom on hold, but he is still having a good effect on television comedy, not only by example but as a producer. His Pig Newton production company is home to Zach Galifianakis' "Baskets" (FX), Tig Notaro's upcoming "O... more info

CNN Showbiz — Comedian Tig Notaro's new autobiographical Amazon series, "One Mississippi," is labeled "a traumedy." That's a good description of not just her show, but the recent strain of dark, deeply personal TV comedy in which laughs take a back seat to damaged... more info