Tig Notaro Clearly Doesn’t Watch Ghosts Or Pay Attention On Airplanes – Looper

While “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” viewers were able to quickly recognize Rebecca Wisocky’s distinctive curly red hair with its sharp widow’s peak, Tig Notaro didn’t get an answer to her puzzle until she returned to Fallon’s show the following night, ironically on her way back to the airport to catch another flight. 

Wisocky appeared on an episode of “The Talk” with her “Ghosts” co-stars Sheila Carrasco and Devan Long to relay her version of the encounter and its aftermath. Wisocky said that since meeting on that plane, she and Notaro had “shared a couple of very lovely messages together.”

Wisocky noted that she knew of Notaro’s public reputation for self-effacing cluelessness (Notaro once hosted a Funny or Die program called “Under a Rock”) and added that she was a “huge Tig Notaro fan.” She explained that she’d recognized Notaro immediately but initially chose to respect her seatmate’s privacy, but soon had “dug a hole of politeness” that she could not find her way out of. Wisocky also mentioned how grateful she was that Notaro returned to “The Tonight Show” to conclude the story and give a plug to “Ghosts,” a program that is clearly not programmed into Notaro’s DVR (at least not yet).