Tig Notaro reflects on first Oscars, late friend Andrea Gibson

Tig Notaro tells us about her Oscar-nominated documentary \

LOS ANGELES – Tig Notaro is suddenly rethinking her Oscars footwear.

The stand-up comedian and actress earned her first Oscar nod as a producer on Ryan White’s “Come See Me in the Good Light” (streaming now on Apple TV), which traces the ups and downs of Notaro’s longtime friend Andrea Gibson, a Colorado poet who died last summer at 49 after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer.

Nominated for best documentary film, "Come See Me in the Good Light" joyfully captures the resilience and love between Gibson, who used they/them pronouns, and their wife, fellow poet Megan Falley.

After Gibson’s death, “Meg reached out to different people, like, ‘Oh, do you want these shoes of Andrea’s?’ ” Notaro recalls, seated on the back patio of a Larchmont neighborhood coffee shop. “My wife was like, ‘I just picture you all showing up to the Oscars in these dirty little desert boots going: We’re in Andrea’s shoes!’ We really should have done that. I think they’re 7½.”

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