Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro

Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro is a 2015 stand-up comedy tour documentary film starring Tig Notaro and Jon Dore. The film premiered on March 16, 2015 at the South by Southwest Film Festival and aired on Showtime on April 17, 2015.^[1][2]

Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro
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Directed by	Michael LaHaie Christopher Wilcha
Written by	Tig Notaro
Produced by	Ken Druckerman (executive producer) Banks Tarver (executive producer) Tig Notaro (executive producer) Hunter Seidman (executive producer) Christina Lenis (associate producer) Mark Dudzinski (line producer)
Starring	Tig Notaro Jon Dore
Cinematography	Adam Beckman
Edited by	Joe Beshenkovsky
Music by	Adam Samuel Goldman
Production company	Left/Right Productions
Distributed by	Showtime Networks
Release dates	March 16, 2015 (2015-03-16) (South by Southwest) April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17) (Showtime)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Synopsis

Comedian Tig Notaro travels across the country in order to put on a series of performances in the homes, back yards, barns, and basements of her most loyal fans.

Cast

• Tig Notaro - Herself (headlining comedian)
• Jon Dore - Himself (opening comedian)
• Nick Kroll - Himself (comedian friend)
• Steve Agee - Himself (early touring comedian)
• Martha Kelly Herself (early touring comedian)
• Doug Lehmann - Himself (Mystery Twins opening band)
• Stephanie Brush - Herself (Mystery Twins opening band)
• Jeff Garlin - Himself (closing credits screening)
• Seth Meyers - Himself (closing credits screening)

Production

On July 2, 2013 Showtime's YouTube channel posted a video of Tig on the beach in Seal Beach, California asking fans to propose different shows by going to www.tigroadtrip.com and asking her to perform on rooftops, backyards, basements, living rooms, garages or barns. In an interview with Dan Casey at Nerdist, Notaro said, "I’ve been doing this for the past decade, and it was just kind of like this idea that my friend Martha and I had to bypass the – yeah, I guess the grind of the comedy club scene, and just see if we could freshen things up a bit, and make things a little awkward."^[3]

Filming

The documentary was filmed starting in early August 2013. The stops of the tour that were finally included in the film are:

• Topanga Canyon, California (geodome)
• Chicago (car, hotel, comedy club)
• Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, Indiana (lake house)
• East Nashville, Tennessee (East Room/abandoned church)
• Clarksdale, Mississippi (sharecropper cabin)
• Pluto, Mississippi (cornfield)
• Pass Christian, Mississippi (house party, also Tig's hometown)