Tig Notaro Not Happy with Louis CK 'SNL' Skit
by EG
Tig Notaro is speaking out about Louis C.K.’s Saturday Night Live short “Birthday Clown,” which has been criticized for bearing a strong resemblance to Notaro’s short film Clown Service.
In a statement provided exclusively to EW, Notaro says she found the sketch “extremely disappointing.” Notaro claims she learned that a “writer/director,” who she says was fully aware of Clown Service, also worked on the C.K. short. Though Notaro and C.K. have worked together in the past, she says the two of them “have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half.”
Both “Birthday Clown” and Clown Service focus on depressed characters (played by C.K. and Notaro, respectively) ordering a clown to their house to cheer them up.
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Tig Notaro can be seen in Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted.