The Hilarious World of Depression
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The Hilarious World of Depression
A show about clinical depression...with laughs? Well, yeah. Depression is an incredibly common and isolating disease experienced by millions, yet often stigmatized by society. The Hilarious World of Depression is a series of frank, moving, and, yes, funny conversations with top comedians who have de...
Episoade Recente
97 episoade
Introducing Depresh Mode with John Moe: Joel Kim Booster Is In A Pit
It's tempting to try to look for a reason why Joel Kim Booster, ordinarily a very funny and engaging person, feels dead inside, trapped in a persisten...
Movies That Get Depression Right
It’s easy for movies to get depression wrong, portraying a clinical disorder as equivalent to just being bummed out and, in the case of romantic comed...
Steven Page Camouflages Songs About Depression
As co-founder and co-frontman for the band Barenaked Ladies, Steven Page belted out a lot of up-tempo pop hits. But if you look at the lyrics to songs...
Mike Birbiglia Faces His Darkest Fears and Puts Them On Stage
Monologist and comedian Mike Birbiglia has always had a mile-long dark streak. Even if he’s never been diagnosed with clinical depression, he’s recogn...
Free Chapters of The Hilarious World of Depression: The Book: The Audiobook
To celebrate the release of our book we are excited to offer you a sneak preview of the audio version, read by author and THWoD host John Moe. Hear ho...
Emmy Blotnick Once Ate a Whole Head of Cabbage. Alone. In Silence.
Standup comedian and writer Emmy Blotnick is a rising star in the comedy world. But along the path to success, she’s had to navigate a depression that...
Lulu Miller Treats Her Depression With Fish Research, Finds Fish Don’t Exist
Public radio and podcast audiences have been listening to Lulu Miller’s storytelling for years on Radiolab and on Invisibilia, a show she co-founded....
Dave Holmes Puts the ADHD in Dave Holmes
Some people don’t have short job titles. Dave Holmes is, among other things, a writer, MTV VJ (despite losing the contest that landed him the job), TV...
Call A Friend, Find Out How They’re Doing
During this long stretch of just staying home, we decided to reach out to some friends of THWoD, hear their voices, and find out how they're holding u...
Lori Gottlieb Has Seen All Possible Sides of Therapy
Having experienced therapy as a patient, a student, and an actual therapist, Lori Gottlieb has a lot of insight into what therapy is, what it isn't, a...
Jameela Jamil Has an Ambitious Goal: To Feel Things
She was one of the stars of NBC’s The Good Place, a tv and radio host in England, and she’s created a popular movement aimed at celebrating body posit...
A Message From Inside John's Closet. I Mean Office.
Hi, it’s John, and I’m sending you this recording from my makeshift office about what’s going on for us THWoD-balls during COVID-19, and ideas about h...
Theo Fleury: Trauma, stardom, and a downward spiral on the latest Tremendous Upside
Theo Fleury hit the ice at age five. He was a hockey phenom at 14, a Stanley Cup champion at 20 and an Olympic gold medalist at 33. He was also keepin...
THWoD Special: Tremendous Upside with Chamique Holdsclaw and Metta World Peace
A special episode of our new sister program from the makers of THWoD. Tremendous Upside is a bit like THWoD, but instead of John Moe talking to artist...
Introducing Tremendous Upside
We are delighted to announce a brand new show coming your way from the THWoD team. Tremendous Upside is a series of interviews with athletes who have...
Depression's Eleven Big Lies EXPOSED!
It's helpful to know that depression lies to you, that it presents the world in a way that is false just to mess you up. It's even more helpful to kno...
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels Finds Therapy More Helpful Than Olde English 800
Run-DMC was about as successful as recording artists could be. Packed concerts, multi-platinum selling albums, MTV, fame, fortune, the whole thing. Bu...
Mark Duplass Has Two Speeds: Go and Crash
Filmmaker and actor Mark Duplass has been prolific over the course of his career. Along with his brother and creative partner, Jay Duplass, he's made...
Angelina Spicer Wants to Say Things Out Loud About Postpartum Depression
There's a lot of information being thrown at parents when a baby is on the way: how to make a birth plan, what kind of car seat to get, what shots the...
Miz Cracker Looks in the Mirror
Max Heller’s life was falling apart. He was drinking heavily, using every kind of pill he could get his hands on, and isolating from society. He was s...
Charlene deGuzman Has Unsexy Stories About Sex
Actor and writer Charlene deGuzman grew up thinking that women should be like the centerfolds her father had plastered all over the garage: alluring t...
Anil Dash Loves Social Media and Wants It To Change
Can platforms like Facebook or Twitter or Instagram help with depression? They do offer a quick way to connect with other humans, after all. But then...
Ryan Bingham Finds a Home and Settles Down
It took a long time for singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham to get to some stability in his life. Growing up, his parents had problems with drugs and alcoh...
Heather B. Armstrong Nearly Dies Ten Times and It Works Out Great
Author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong (dooce.com) was in, by far, the deepest depression she had ever experienced and nothing was working to lift it...
Mara Wilson Had Great Opportunities and Difficult Challenges
While it was easy for audiences to enjoy Mara Wilson as a perky child performer in movies like Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, the young actress had menta...
Whitney Cummings Puts It Together and Stops Falling Apart
Whitney Cummings has had a lot of success in Hollywood as a comedian, actress, writer and director, and now she's finally having success in figuring h...
Pete Holmes Looks for Meaning and Membership
You might know Pete Holmes from his many standup specials, his talk show, or Crashing, the HBO series he created and starred in. You might not know th...
Jenny Lawson and Books That Get Depression Right
We asked our listeners for books they've read that give an accurate depiction of the reality of depression. Happily, we got enough great suggestions t...
The Perils and Rewards of Travel
Taking a trip somewhere new can be wonderful: the new experiences, the exciting culture, the unusual foods. For people who deal with depression or anx...
Just the Funny Parts
Look, we know that THWoD can get a little, I guess, intense at times. Depression is a heavy topic and stories about it are often packed with bummers....
Solomon Georgio Is Doing Better
It's not easy to pinpoint where L.A.-based comedian Solomon Georgio is "from." His family is Ethiopian but he was born in a refugee camp in Sudan. The...
Jonny Sun Ended Up Here Somehow
The idea was to become an engineer or maybe an architect. Jonny Sun has degrees in both, and he's a dissertation away from a doctorate in urban studie...
Naomi Ekperigin Brings In Her Baggage, Unpacks It
"There's a lot to unpack, John," says comedian, actor, and writer Naomi Ekperigin during the course of this interview and indeed there is. The New Yor...
Check-Ups on Gary Gulman, Linda Holmes, Janelle James, and “Steve.” Plus, Sock Opportunities
Mental health is a journey. Rarely does someone have a problem, fix it completely, and never worry about it again. On this episode, we touch base with...
Aparna Nancherla Is Having a Harder Time Doing Something She’s Great At
It's pretty easy to be a fan of Aparna Nancherla. Not only does she create incredibly funny, smart, relatable comedy, she does so in a variety of form...
John Ross Bowie and Jamie Denbo Don’t Need Your Suggestions For Their Life Improv
In a whole lot of ways, improv comedy is the opposite of depression. It requires you to be present in the moment, unconcerned about past regrets and f...
Adventures in Therapy
True stories of beautiful epiphanies and majestic, horrible disasters. Talk therapy is one of the most popular ways to address depression and it's one...
Guy Branum Goes to Minnesota, Gets Good Internet, Finds Self
Comedian and writer Guy Branum was expected to be a construction worker his whole life. Maybe a football player. He was large, strong, and grew up in...
The Hilarious NIGHT of Depression
Our show took to the stage recently for a live event packed with laughter, insight, and music. We were joined by Paul F. Tompkins, Aimee Mann, Ted Leo...
Words: Am We Uses Them Good At Mental Health?
Finding and using the right words for something as complex as mental illnesses can be exasperating. And it can take a lot of effort to avoid the wrong...