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The comedian’s routine about her illness became part of her act - and an online sensation. She talks to Tim Teeman

It happened in four months, beginning in March last year. First Tig Notaro contracted pneumonia, then C. diff (Clostridium difficile) and an intestinal infection, then her mother tripped at home and died, then cancer was diagnosed in both her breasts. “I tell people that had nothing bar the pneumonia happened, that would have been my major ordeal of 2012,” the comedian says in a New York café. On August 3 last year, the day the cancer was diagnosed and she was told that it was likely it had spread to her lymph nodes, Notaro performed a set at the Largo