I want to be silly, and that's being authentic just as much as being open and honest. It's authentic to make weird clown horn noises when it strikes you.
Interpretation
Embracing silliness is a form of authenticity and honesty in one's self-expression.
This quote highlights the importance of embracing one's quirky and playful side as a fundamental aspect of being true to oneself. Tig Notaro suggests that expressing silliness, such as making silly sounds or behaving in unexpected ways, is just as valid as being open and honest, emphasizing that authenticity includes all facets of our personality, including those that might be considered unconventional or goofy.
In practice
In a speech about self-acceptance, one might use this quote to encourage the audience to embrace their playful side.
I get kind of, um, bored by all the sexuality and gender labels because I feel like that's where the problem comes in, when people feel that they need to have these particular identities. If you didn't have these labels, and you just acted on how you genuinely felt at any point, then you wouldn't have anything to contend with.
People write me every day. It feels like this cycle that keeps giving, because as far along as I get in my happiness and success, hearing other people's stories is a constant reminder of where I came from, where people are, and how much help everybody still needs.
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
It's important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps you find the little nuances in your set that don't work, and you can shave off the excess.
When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.
Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me... and were just like, 'You know what? We're sick of this. Let's kill her.'
There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
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