The comedian's new album 'Live'— as in, "to keep not dying" —
relates her diagnosis with breast cancer last year.   Last
August, Tig Notaro walked onstage at the Largo in Los Angeles
and said to her audience: "I have cancer. How are you?"  What
followed was 30-minute set that comedian Louis C.K. described
later as "an amazing example of what comedy can be." Notaro kept
her audience emotionally off-balanced by relaying a string of
incidents so horrible she couldn't possibly be serious: Stage II
cancer in both breasts, coming on the heels of a debilitating
bacterial infection that caused her to lose 20 pounds, and the
sudden death of her mother. But Notaro was serious. Except she
was also funny.  Notaro's show immediately became legend in
comedy and cancer circles. Within two months, she appeared on
Conan O'Brien's late-night talk show, with stitches from her
surgery still in her chest. She also got a book deal and a
Showtime documentary.  This week, Notaro, 42, released that show
as Live — as in, "to keep not