An avid music fan, Notaro moved to
Denver, Colorado, where she became involved in the music industry. She became a band manager, working under the name Tignation Promotions in the mid-'90s. Her work promoting bands took her to Los Angeles, where she tried stand-up for the first time in the late '90s. She has since been featured on
Comedy Central Presents and on
The Sarah Silverman Program as a lesbian police officer. She collaborates frequently with her writing partner
Kyle Dunnigan. With Dunnigan and
David Huntsberger, she co-hosted the podcast
Professor Blastoff from May 2011 until July 2015. In 2011, Notaro released her debut stand-up album,
Good One. Her 2012 album,
Live, is a recording of a stand-up set performed shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2012, she appeared on
Conan, and in May of that year on the live episode of
This American Life, which was broadcast to theaters nationwide and on radio in edited form. She performed a monologue about having encountered
Taylor Dayne on multiple occasions, greeting her each time with, "Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you, but I just have to tell you. I love your voice." After her monologue, Dayne made a surprise appearance, serenading Notaro with the song "I'll Always Love You". She worked on fellow comedian
Amy Schumer's
Comedy Central series
Inside Amy Schumer. In June 2012, Notaro did a
Kickstarter-funded series called
Clown Service, which she wrote and starred in. Notaro wrote a memoir for
HarperCollins imprint
Ecco called ''I'm Just a Person
, and a Showtime documentary was made about her life and her post-cancer stand-up tour, In July 2015, a Netflix film, Tig'', chronicling her attempts to become pregnant with her fiancée,
Stephanie Allynne, was also released. Singer
Sharon Van Etten wrote a song in homage to Notaro called "Words" that is heard in the credits. In November 2015, Notaro co-wrote, produced, and starred in a semi-autobiographical
TV pilot for
Amazon Video called
One Mississippi. It received a six-episode series order from Amazon a month later. It follows Notaro's character as she returns to her hometown of
Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi after her mother's unexpected death. and will continue to play the character as a regular in the upcoming series
Starfleet Academy.
Netflix released Notaro's second one-hour special,
Happy to Be Here, on May 22, 2018. She was digitally inserted in post-production in
Zack Snyder's
Army of the Dead, replacing
Chris D'Elia, who was accused of sexual misconduct.
Comedic style On her approach to comedy (and whether she considers herself a dark comic), Notaro says: "I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet... There's no preconceived idea of who I think I might be now." == Personal life ==