Laughing Through the Pain

Comedian Tig Notaro's mother died, she learned she had breast cancer, she had a double mastectomy ~ and she made the experience a very funny/moving/uncomfortable/funny part of her stand-up routine. "I can't really describe it," fellow comic Louis CK wrote on his website after seeing her onstage, "but I was crying and laughing and listening like never in my life": http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/best/tig-notaro-stand-up-comedian-profile?click=main_sr