tonight we hear from comedian tig notaro who has used her performances to overcome enormous personal hurdles, including a cancer diagnoses and the loss of her mother. her memoir, "i'm just a person" came out earlier this month. >> in 2012, i was so busy. i was filming a movie. shooting a tv pilot. then i started to get sick, i got diagnosed with pneumonia. a few days later my mother tripped and hit her head and died. my girlfriend at the time, she and i split up. and then i was diagnosed with invasive bilateral breast cancer. during that time period, i kept hearing, 'god never gives you more than you can handle.' that was way more than i could handle. i would hear brave and battling and all of these words that i didn't know that i really related to i kept picturing the military hearing about this brave person and just kicking my door down and coming in to find me just crying on my couch for my mommy and them being like 'yep there she is. we need you on the frontlines, there's the brave one.' that diagnoses just sent me spiraling but also i felt more prolific than ever. i started writ