Tig Notaro, affectionately named by her brother as a child, was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised by her single mother in Pass Christian, Mississippi. During hot summer days, her artistic and free-spirited mother would feed the children all three meals at once, then hose down their diapered bodies in highchairs to cut back on cooking and cleaning, leaving more time for her to paint donkeys on the outside of their house. The family eventually moved to Texas, where they gained a new father...
