Comedians Tig Notaro and Louis C.K. have a rocky history that began with C.K. helping launch Notaro’s career with the sale of her famous Hello, I Have Cancer stand-up routine in 2012, then publicly deteriorated after Notaro accused C.K. of plagiarizing her short film Clown Service for one of his SNL sketches earlier this year. At that time, Notaro said she hadn’t spoken to C.K. in “nearly a year and a half.” In a new interview with the Daily Beast, Notaro is giving more context to their falling out:...
- 8/23/2017
- by Dee Lockett
- Vulture
2017-04-13T12:06:12-07:00Tig Notaro Not Happy with Louis Ck 'SNL' SkitTig Notaro is speaking out about Louis C.K.’s Saturday Night Live short “Birthday Clown,” which has been criticized for bearing a strong resemblance to Notaro’s short film Clown Service.
In a statement provided exclusively to EW, Notaro says she found the sketch “extremely disappointing.” Notaro claims she learned that a “writer/director,” who she says was fully aware of Clown Service, also worked on the C.K. short. Though Notaro and C.K. have worked together in the past, she says the two of them “have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half.”
Both “Birthday Clown” and Clown Service focus on depressed characters (played by C.K. and Notaro, respectively) ordering a clown to their house to cheer them up.
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In a statement provided exclusively to EW, Notaro says she found the sketch “extremely disappointing.” Notaro claims she learned that a “writer/director,” who she says was fully aware of Clown Service, also worked on the C.K. short. Though Notaro and C.K. have worked together in the past, she says the two of them “have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half.”
Both “Birthday Clown” and Clown Service focus on depressed characters (played by C.K. and Notaro, respectively) ordering a clown to their house to cheer them up.
Read the rest of this article at Entertainment Weekly.
- 4/13/2017
- by EG
- Yidio
Tig Notaro is speaking out about “Saturday Night Live” and Louis C.K. “potentially plagiarizing” her short film “Clown Service,” calling their similarities “extremely disappointing.” Ck and the NBC sketch comedy staple recently teamed up on pre-taped skit “Birthday Clown,” which strikes a strong resemblance in premise to Notaro’s earlier and lengthier project. In both, a depressed, middle-aged(-ish) and apparently single person calls a clown service to their home for a one-on-one cheer-up session. C.K.’s request is for a personal birthday party, while Notaro’s is to help her get over a breakup. A certain amount of hilarity ensues in his,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Tig Notaro is calling out Louis C.K.’s Saturday Night Live “Birthday Clown” short, saying that it resembles her short film Clown Service and that a writer/director who “was fully aware” of her project worked on C.K.’s piece for the show. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, the One Mississippi co-creator states that she finds the SNL short “extremely disappointing.” Notaro also adds that she has “not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half” with C.K. or…...
- 4/12/2017
- Deadline TV
Watch Tig Notaro Talk Surprising Influences, Leaving Her Comfort Zone, and Clowns in Her Vulture Q&A
It's been a good year for Tig Notaro historians. First came Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro, in March, a Showtime documentary that followed the comedian as she performed in non-venues across the country. Four months later, Netflix released Tig, a more conventional doc that delved into many of the deeply personal circumstances that have fueled her comedy. And this Saturday the 22nd, HBO will be airing her first-ever stand-up special, Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted — which, while not a documentary, is sure nevertheless to be revealing (what with her comedy being deeply personal). To round out the informational mix, we're publishing an unreleased video from a screening of Notaro's short film, “Clown Service,” at this year's Vulture Festival. After showing the short, she spoke with Alex Jung about topics including her unlikely idols, damaging the stage at a Conan taping, and why comedy shouldn’t feel safe: “When you’re on the edge,...
- 8/17/2015
- by Devon Ivie
- Vulture
After a screening of her new short film, Clown Service, at Saturday's Vulture Festival, Tig Notaro discussed some of her comedic influences, including Joan Rivers, Gilda Radner, Paula Poundstone, and Richard Pryor. But pre-dating all of them was the master of wordplay, Amelia Bedelia, the children's book character conceived by Peggy Parish in the '60s.I hated school from day one, but when it was circle time, and the teacher would get out one of the Amelia Bedelia books, I would be like, ‘Guys, shh!’ You want to talk some irony? It’s dynamite. I feel like that really informed my sensibility. After asking the audience if anyone didn't know who the very literally-minded Amelia Bedelia was, Notaro explained, "When her boss would leave for the day and leave a list of things for her to do and one of them was 'Draw the drapes,'" she said. "You guys,...
- 5/31/2015
- by Sam Anderson
- Vulture
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