Podcast Episodes

Episode 72 (with Anthony Greco)

Season 1 Episode 72

Comedian Anthony Greco came on the podcast and told me about living with brain cancer since he was 15, the multiple brain surgeries he’s had, starting stand up and learning to make jokes about it, re…

Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

Episode 71 (with Cooper Kim)

Season 1 Episode 71

Comedian Cooper Kim came on the podcast and told me about losing his dad to a freak accident as a child, using humor as a coping mechanism, his dad’s own brief foray into stand up comedy, learning ab…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 70 (with Sean Donnelly)

Comedian Sean Donnelly (Letterman, Conan, Colbert) and I talked about the life, death, and sense of humor of his father, their shared love of classic comedies, the “new normal” you experience after l…

Published on 1 month ago

Episode 69 (with Kaytlin Bailey)

Season 1 Episode 69

Comedian Kaytlin Bailey came on the podcast and told me about the life and memory of her father, dealing with his dementia, finding humor in grief, her advocacy for sex workers rights, and her podcas…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 68 (with Grant Moore)

Season 1 Episode 68

Comedian Grant Moore came on the podcast and we talked about his father’s life and death, the range of emotions that accompany suicide, what it’s like doing comedy roast battles when you have a dead …

Published on 2 months ago

Episode 67 (with Clare O'Kane)

Season 1 Episode 67

Comedian Clare O’Kane (Saturday Night Live, Shrill) came on the podcast and we talked about the life, death and memory of her parents, their sense of humors and influence on her, the avoidance issues…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 66 (with Davidson Boswell)

Season 1 Episode 66

Comedian Davidson Boswell came on the podcast and told me about a different kind of death: mourning the memory of who his brother was before his mental decline, learning to live with who he is now an…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 65 (with Joe Gorman)

Season 1 Episode 65

Comedian Joe Gorman told me about the lessons he learned from stepdad and his sudden death last summer, bringing ashes through TSA, when a comedian’s final tweet becomes their epitaph, the outpouring…

Published on 3 months ago

Episode 64 (with Lynn Harris)

Season 1 Episode 64

Lynn Harris (Gold Comedy) told me about the life and memory of her parents, her mother’s work with Noam Chomsky, her sudden death from COVID in 2020, how the pandemic prevented her and her father fro…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Episode 63 (with Chris Maddock)

I had a great time talking with comedian Chris Maddock about the lives and deaths of his parents, great Minneapolis comedians that passed too soon, keeping friends’ memories alive by telling their ol…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago