Tig Notaro is attempting to curb her disappointment.
The comic has opened up about why she determined to finish her shut friendship with “Curb Your Enthusiasm” alum Cheryl Hines, and mentioned that the actor’s husband, Health and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., performed an enormous consider her resolution.
The “One Mississippi” star appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “Breaking Bread With Tom Papa” podcast, and almost 50 minutes into the episode, Papa talked about how a lot he “enjoyed” Notaro’s outdated podcast.
“Yeah… that show ended,” Notaro mentioned dryly, referring to the podcast she used to co-host with Hines.
The duo’s defunct podcast “Tig & Cheryl: True Story,” centered across the former pals having very foolish conversations about documentaries.
“Cheryl was one of my favorite friends to be ridiculous with,” Notaro advised Papa. “And we made each other laugh so hard. And I love documentaries, and it was fun to have to watch a documentary every week, but also we took the pressure off, because we would ask each other things like, ‘Who are you attracted to in this documentary?’”
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After reminiscing about how a lot enjoyable she and Hines would have upsetting their extra “NPR-type” followers who wished extra “critical” critiques of the documentaries they’d focus on, Notaro obtained into the meat of why she ended issues with Hines.
“But Cheryl’s married to Bobby Kennedy Jr.,” Notaro mentioned. “When he was announcing his run, I just felt like I needed to step away, because there are beliefs that were like a gnat on the arm years ago that were getting further into the spotlight.”
Though the Grammy-nominated comic didn’t title any particular beliefs she disagreed with — like his penchant for spreading misinformation about vaccines — she did attempt to set herself additional away from Kennedy by noting that her “friendship with Cheryl predated her marriage to Bobby.”
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“He was in environmental law,” Notaro mentioned of Kennedy, who married Hines in 2014. “And, again, other beliefs he had were like a gnat on my arm. But then it started to grow, and Cheryl wanted me to hear Bobby out. They had these good ideas, and I was like, ‘I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.’ I just didn’t trust it. And then he endorsed Trump, and then it just got hard.”
Papa then talked about how Hines tried to distance herself from her husband’s political beliefs as nicely.
Kennedy himself even admitted to TMZ shortly after he endorsed President Donald Trump final 12 months that his spouse wasn’t thrilled when he determined to go full MAGA.
“She’s a lifelong Democrat and the idea of me supporting Donald Trump as president was just … something that she would have never imagined, that she never wanted in her life,” Kennedy mentioned on the time. “She went along with it because she loves me and she wanted to be supportive of me, but it was not something that she ever encouraged.”
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“When somebody is like, ‘Oh we don’t agree on everything,’ within a marriage that is so vague,” Notaro mentioned, noting that she and her spouse, actor Stephanie Allynne, don’t at all times agree on the temperature on the thermostat.
“But I would never say, Stephanie and I don’t agree on things. And so, I think where it has led is— it’s not my world. It’s a hard pass.”
If Hines newest media appearances to advertise her upcoming memoir are any indication, she appears to be embracing the suitable.
On Tuesday, she sparred with the co-hosts of “The View” defending Kennedy, however her look Wednesday on Meghan McCain’s interview present “Citizen McCain” was far more telling.
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Within the interview, she spoke about how she discovered Republican ladies in Washington, D.C., glamorous.
“I mean, listen, when Melania Trump is setting the bar… That’s a high bar,” Hines mentioned 22 minutes into the episode. “All the women in this administration are stunning.”
“I like everybody in there,” Hines advised McCain of the Trump administration. “I have a genuinely good time with these guys.”
