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Fortune Feamster
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Fortune Feamster
Friends on the handsome pod. Chatting with friends on the handsome pod.
Tig Notaro
Pretty Little episode.
Fortune Feamster
Welcome to the handsome pods. Pretty little episode. I am Fortune Feamster.
Tig Notaro
And I am Tig Notaro.
Mae Martin
How are you, Fortune?
Fortune Feamster
I'm so good. How are you, my friend?
Tig Notaro
I'm doing well. I'm just touring around and just doing the best I can, really.
Fortune Feamster
That's.
Tig Notaro
That's all I can do.
Fortune Feamster
You're doing great.
Tig Notaro
Some days.
Fortune Feamster
Are you enjoying being back on tour?
Tig Notaro
I am. I'm liking these. I really don't. I don't know if it's my age or what, but, like, I'm just, like. I'm really happy with once a month, four or five nights in a row, and it's just. It just is nice. I would go out, I'd go hard and fast, whereas I'm like, I'm gonna let this ride as long as it wants to.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
But things are good. Stephanie and I are. We have stuff we're working on that's been really fun, and.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah, it's.
Tig Notaro
It's one of those things where, like, you. You go into these projects and they're kind of, like, stalled out sometimes for a while, and then. And who knows what will ultimately happen? But we just had, like, a really fun run of a week of like, wow, this is. That's a really good email.
Fortune Feamster
Whoa.
Tig Notaro
I did. Oh, nice. This came back around.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah.
Tig Notaro
And so I'm also, though, trying to, like, I. I love working on that, but I'm also. I think I'm realizing. I don't know, that I want to be fully producing anymore, really. On projects? Yeah. Why?
Fortune Feamster
It's just too much work.
Tig Notaro
It's just a lot. It's a lot with. When things get really layered and complicated and stuff. I don't have the. I find it fascinating that people will get into the business to be a producer because you're taking on so much. Whereas I started out as a comedian and then got into different projects and development, and, you know. Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, let's do that. And then you're like, oh, my God, I'm full on in a producing role and just kind of pulling back the layers of getting in touch with what do I really want.
Fortune Feamster
Right.
Tig Notaro
What do I want for my. My time, my. What are my actual interests? I don't want to get my. My dream confused with anybody else's dream. I want to do what really. What I really want to do. So, yeah, it's. It's a weird but good time.
Fortune Feamster
Well, that's good.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feamster
I would think that that would be a lot of, like, coordinating and, I don't know, a lot of being required to be organized. Well, yeah, yeah.
Tig Notaro
You don't want.
Fortune Feamster
I don't know that I want to. I would want to do it full time either.
Tig Notaro
And I didn't mean to do it full time, but I just started to realize, like, gosh, so much of my time is like, being allocated to these kind of tasks and calls and conversations and meetings. And I'm just like, is this really what I want to do? You know, I mean, and that's a different kind of producer than just like, oh, this project is teed up, everything's looking good. Your name might be helpful to have on this project. And it's like, in that case, I'm like, yes, slap my name on me and let's go. But I'm always really interested in that world of learning about myself. Yeah. You know, I'm very interested in that because sometimes I can become numb and just be moving forward without thought. And I can't wait to tell May this, but this is exciting. I'm doing my own wellness weekend.
Fortune Feamster
By yourself?
Tig Notaro
I'm gonna hire people. Well, because I was thinking, I really want to do a wellness retreat, but not that I am the most recognizable person in the world, but I do think I wouldn't feel totally relaxed if I was at a retreat, you know, because people.
Fortune Feamster
Right.
Tig Notaro
Recognize me and. Sure. And so I started to look into other options and then I saw like, maybe you can hire somebody to come in and do a retreat for you at your house so it's private. I was like, well, that's cool. Or you get a hotel room and somebody goes and meets you at the hotel and does the whole thing with you. So, yeah, that's. It's just more of that of like, just I'm going to spend two days by myself and I'm going to have different people that I hire to come in and. And whoa. Yeah. So I'm going to get that little experience, and then I'm going to open it up for our wellness weekend.
Fortune Feamster
Okay. Yeah. You. You see how it goes, See if you're into it, then take notes and perfect it by the time we come around. I have another thing I'm. I don't want to tell May about just yet either.
Tig Notaro
Okay. Okay.
Fortune Feamster
This is. This is.
Tig Notaro
Are you pregnant?
Fortune Feamster
No. But I am going to go to Saturday Night Live on Saturday night. To the taping? No. Even better. Who? Paul McCartney's the musical guest.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my gosh. You guys are never going to get past your. Your musical conflic.
Fortune Feamster
So when I. I'm going because Will Ferrell is hosting, so I'm doing a show in Pennsylvania the night before. So I was like, oh, I'll just take the train up to New York City and see Will. And no idea. Had no idea until today. That's who the musical guest is. And maybe I won't meet him. I might not even meet him. But it. The idea that I could potentially meet Paul McCartney.
Tig Notaro
May is not going to handle this well. Okay. Because now you might meet him. And I chose not to go to a party of his. May, can't we. It's too much for. I think May's my soul. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feamster
Well, tbd. I. It might.
Tig Notaro
Nothing.
Fortune Feamster
You'll need him.
Tig Notaro
I bet you May.
Fortune Feamster
I feel like it's a possibility because I'll be hanging out with Will, you know, and his people. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. But it did give me a good cackle when I realized it.
Tig Notaro
And when did you find that out?
Fortune Feamster
The past couple of days. Oh, today I saw Will's promo, and he mentioned Paul McCartney, and I went, oh, my God, is that the guest? That musical guest? And then I looked it up, and it is. And I was like, are you kidding me?
Tig Notaro
That is. I cannot wait. Please let me be there when you tell me.
Fortune Feamster
I will. I will.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah. Oh, poor little May.
Tig Notaro
Oh, well, should we get into our questions?
Fortune Feamster
Let's do it.
Wendy (Caller)
Hi, Tig. Hi, Fortune. Hi, May. This is Wendy from Toledo. My question for you is this. So you know the social movements. No shave, November and no mow. May, like, you're not supposed to mow your lawn in May because it helps the environment.
Tig Notaro
Oh, I didn't know that.
Wendy (Caller)
I'm wondering what social movement you would want to start and what month you would pick. And I am excited to hear your answers.
Fortune Feamster
I didn't know about the. No mo. November.
Tig Notaro
And what? No shaving your hair on Your body Interesting.
Fortune Feamster
Like no coochie. You mean I can't shave? Mikuchi
Mae Martin
Fortune.
Tig Notaro
Marie.
Fortune Feamster
I'm only thinking about Kate Mikuchi because I just saw her in a picture with a friend of mine.
Tig Notaro
Oh, my God. I did a voiceover the other day, and then she popped up on the screen. She was next in line to record on the cartoon. It was such a fun surprise to see her little face. And I love how much she is a part of this show just because
Fortune Feamster
of her last name.
Tig Notaro
But she's also one of my dearest friends.
Fortune Feamster
I do love that. But I. And I love that your dear friend's last name is Micucci.
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Tig Notaro
Our question from Wende is what would we start if we could start anything? I thought about this social movement. I thought about this.
Fortune Feamster
I knew you'd have an answer right away.
Tig Notaro
Yes, I have thought that it would be. And maybe this is already happening, but I've always thought it would be such a great idea to have, whether it's a day, a week or a month every year that as just people on the planet, in their town or city, everywhere you go, pick up something and throw it away. Just pick up trash, pick up recycling and just make it a thing that everybody knows because that would make such a huge impact as far as just like on a surfacey level of tidying up the. The area that you live in.
Fortune Feamster
I like that.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, I like you too.
Fortune Feamster
I used to do that adopt a highway thing back in high school. Do you remember that?
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feamster
And so we would go out and pick up trash for, you know, some air. Part of town that some company, basically a company, would sponsor it and then get people to volunteer to help them. So, yeah, I like that because there's so much trash. We got to do better about that, for sure. I mean, I would try to help save water. I think we should do like no shower Wednesdays. And on Wednesdays no one can shower and. But everyone, everyone would participate. So if someone were a little stinky on Wednesday, you would know why.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feamster
You know, that particular day, maybe just, you know, maybe like, do a little more deodorant. Yeah, perfum. But, yeah, since everyone's doing it, it wouldn't be a big faux pas.
Tig Notaro
Well, we could probably save a lot of water also, if May stopped showering twice a day.
Fortune Feamster
May does enjoy a shower. A lot of showers and a lot of baths. Yeah, that could help.
Tig Notaro
Well, I'm all for stinky, Stinky Wednesday. Doesn't sound right. Stinky, Stinky Saturday.
Fortune Feamster
Well, you can't Saturday because that's a date night. You know, potentially. Stinky Tuesday. Tuesday could. Could work. I think it has to be a Tuesday or a Wednesday because those are not as much as going on socially.
Tig Notaro
Stinky Tuesday. Stinky Tuesday.
Fortune Feamster
Okay. Stinky Tuesday. So that's what. That's the day we're gonna save water
Tig Notaro
and we can't pick up trash that day.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah, that. Yeah, because you don't want to get too stinky.
Tig Notaro
And we can't call the trash day Stinky Wednesday.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah, yeah.
Tig Notaro
So. Oh, that's a good idea. Stinky Tuesday. Then you wake up and you pick up trash on Wednesday, and then you take a.
Fortune Feamster
And then take a shower.
Tig Notaro
Yeah.
Fortune Feamster
Yeah. Look at that.
Tig Notaro
What's Wendy got for us?
Wendy (Caller)
Mine would be switch it up September, because I just love switching things up. And I think it would be fun to have all kinds of people doing, you know, getting out of their routine and doing something different just to keep it fresh and maybe to keep it a little bit silly. So I think that could be a really fun activity for people. Thanks. Love your show.
Tig Notaro
Thank you, Wendy. I like that. This is another example of our listeners have great questions. They sure do. Really, really great questions. I'm always like, what is this gonna be? And Wendy delivered again.
Fortune Feamster
Go, Wendy. I love your hamburgers.
Tig Notaro
Okay.
Megan (Caller)
Hi, Tig. Name, Fortune. My name is Megan, and I'm calling from just outside of Worcester, Massachusetts. And I have a question that I can't answer myself, but I'm curious to hear your answers. So I'm listening to a recent pod. Fortune's talking about her international tour coming up, and I'm curious if and how you tailor your comedy to locations so I would assume not every country shares the same humor. And I'm wondering if you write different jokes for different places, even different cities, and if you do, how that process works. I love you guys, and I look forward to listening to you every week. And thanks.
Tig Notaro
Well, we love you, too.
Fortune Feamster
That's Right. It made me think about how comedy in general and podcasts in general, it's for specific audiences because a friend of mine, her mom told me, I try to listen to Handsome, I just don't understand what it's about. And I said, I don't think it's for you. Not that you can't be. We have people of all ages that listen to it. Yeah, but if, but if you listen to it and your first thought is, I don't know, this is about, then probably you're not going to enjoy the rest of the episodes.
Tig Notaro
That is so funny.
Fortune Feamster
What is it about? What is it about? Just don't understand. And what would you say it's about? It's about like, nothing and everything, you know, because. Because it's nonsense a lot of time, but then other times we really dig into things, you know.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, but.
Fortune Feamster
But that's the nature of these, the questions is that it takes us in many different directions.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I guess if, if it interests you to hear a group of people pondering,
Fortune Feamster
pondering, pondering. And then sometimes it's funny and we make. Make people laugh, and then sometimes it's earnest and sometimes it's sad and sometimes it's just chatting, you know.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Yeah,
Fortune Feamster
that's right. But for international shows, you know, I just do Europe and a handful of places in Europe and I do Australia, and then I do. I mean, Canada feels very similar to here, so. Yeah, but. But like, I've never performed in some of the places I'm going, so. Oh, I, you know, it will be new to me. And I, I do remember when I performed in Iceland last year, I was like, huh. You know, you do think, like, are they gonna get this reference or this fast food chain or, you know, their biscuits or something else, you know, so you just have to. You either shift it to like a F that they recognize if, say, say if it's a fast food story or like, if I'm talking about a biscuit, that's a Southern biscuit, I'll take a couple extra sentences to describe it. Yeah. Or if it seems like a very American story that's like, maybe not as relatable. I might just take that out completely. So I personally tailor it a little bit, but not to the point where it's a whole other act.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. I remember when I first got into stand up, people would be, People would be like, you got to have your clean set. You got to have your college material. You have to have your corporate. You ha. And I was like, I don't. I Just.
Fortune Feamster
That's a lot of sets.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, I mean, but those. I mean, I just did not understand because they felt very like business comedians. You know what I mean? Like, you got to have this. You got to be prepared for that, and you got to make sure. But I never did that. I was just like, here's my material. This is what inspires me to write about and talk about and perform. And then, yeah, like you said, if there are moments that I. But it's also, you know, to talk about my Taylor Dane bit. Sometimes when it wouldn't work in the early days, people would say, oh, it's because, you know, people don't know who she is, or they must not know who she is. And I'm like, that doesn't matter because I've talked about my mother, I've talked about friends of mine. And you. It's your job as a comedian, as you're saying, to give that description so that it doesn't matter who you're talking about, that it just becomes relatable. And whether you're tweaking a few words here and there or just dropping an entire story altogether, because it's like. But I don't really add things or write things, but specific to the town. But every now and then, something will happen when I'm on the way to a show or if something outrageous.
Megan (Caller)
But it.
Tig Notaro
That's also coming from a real place of. Oh, I wanted to talk about this. I'm not like, hey, tell me what your local specialty is or is there anything about your town I need to know so I can like, write something? I just. And maybe people wish or are looking for that and a comedian, but I'm. I'm not. I'm not that person.
Fortune Feamster
I don't really do it either. Occasionally. Right now, I'm doing, like, a little bit of crowd work in the middle of the show. So sometimes I'll, you know, pop in a couple of things here and there. But I'm not like, doing a whole, like five or 10 minutes on the town.
Tig Notaro
Yeah, yeah.
Fortune Feamster
But that's another thing I will shift for my European shows. I have learned, I mean, at least through my time doing London and Amsterdam. European crowds don't seem to be as much into crowd work as. As American audiences because they don't want to be a part of the show. Yeah, they want. They, like, came to see you. I had. I. I did a week of shows in London at the Soho. Gosh, this would have been like seven or eight years ago. And a reviewer came, which I wasn't used to that either, being reviewed and stand up unless you put out a special, just you don't really get reviewed for your live shows. And, and he liked everything but the, the crowd work. He was like, I don't, I don't like, enjoy, you know, the back and forth there. It wasn't that it was bad crowd work that he just wasn't into it. And I learned that throughout the week that people are just not those audiences are a bit more demure. Whereas Americans, you know, want to hear themselves talk, want to be loud, want to be boisterous. So they're into it. So I definitely shift my set for that.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. Well, there you go.
Mae Martin
There's your answer.
Fortune Feamster
There you go, Megan.
Tig Notaro
A little bit sometimes, maybe not. Mostly unpoco. Send your questions in Also Share Episodes Help us build this handsome community Submit your questions to speakpipe.com handsomepod come check me out on the road. Tig notaro.com I'll be in Spokane, Washington Eugene, Oregon. I'm doing some local shows in LA, Colorado Springs, Calgary, Iowa City, Des Moines, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Charleston, West Virginia. The list goes on and on. Come on out. We'll see you soon. What about you, Fortune?
Fortune Feamster
I'm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa tonight, so come on out for that. Then Omaha, Nebraska tomorrow night. Then next weekend, Portland, Maine and Detroit, Michigan. So I'll see you guys hopefully at one of these fun shows if you live in the area.
Tig Notaro
Yeah. And until next time, keep it pretty.
Fortune Feamster
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Mae Martin
Handsome is hosted by me, Tig Notaro, Mae Martin and Fortune Theme Steer. The show is produced, recorded and edited by Thomas Willette. Email us@handsomepodmail.com Follow us on social media nsomepod what a podcast.
Fortune Feamster
What a podcast. That was a headgum podcast.
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Handsome Podcast – Pretty Little Episode #95 (June 12, 2026)
Hosts: Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, Mae Martin
Summary compiled by: [Your Name]
In this vibrant and characteristically playful episode of "Handsome," the trio—Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin—dive into listener questions about social movements and adapting comedy for international audiences. Along the way, they share behind-the-scenes stories about producing creative projects, celebrity run-ins, personal wellness rituals, and the peculiarities of crowd work across continents. The energy is friendly, honest, and full of spontaneous laughs.
Touring and Project Balance (01:05–03:43)
Wellness Weekend Experiment (05:11–06:11)
Tig’s Movement: Environmental Community Clean-Up
Fortune’s Movement: “No Shower Wednesday”/“Stinky Tuesday”
Proposes a day where nobody showers to conserve water, with social acceptance of “a little stinky” as everyone participates.
The hosts riff on potential names (“Stinky Tuesday” wins), and how it would coordinate with trash pick-up for maximum impact.
“If someone were a little stinky on Wednesday, you would know why.” — Fortune Feimster (12:26) “Stinky Tuesday. Then you wake up and pick up trash on Wednesday, and then you take a...shower.” — Tig Notaro (13:30–13:40)
Caller Wendy’s Movement: “Switch It Up September”
Adapting Material for Local Audiences
Tig’s Philosophy: Be Yourself, Adjust Only as Needed
On Producing:
On Wellness:
On Podcast's Niche Appeal:
The tone is loose, jokey, and intimate, with the hosts riffing on each other's lives and ideas, offering practical insights for comedians and fans alike, and continuously involving listeners in the show’s evolving energy. This episode is particularly illustrative of how the "Handsome" team brings wisecracks and authenticity to real topics—be it career direction or cultural nuance in stand-up.
A perfect episode if you want a blend of behind-the-scenes comedy life, playful theorizing about world-improving movements, and a masterclass in the art and science of connecting with diverse audiences—delivered, always, handsomely.