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, remembering friends he has lost to the disease,...

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 about his father through other people’s memorie...

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 losing someone, and the ways we keep the memor...

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 podcast/live show The Oldest Profession....

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 parent, and why it’s important to talk about ...

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 most people have discussing death, and how l...

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 and the compounding effects it’s had on his fam...

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 of support after a loss, and the legacy of l...

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 from seeing her before she passed, why Zoom shiv...

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 old jokes, what happens after you die, and a co...

Comedian Brian Enck came on the podcast and told me about the life, memory, and questionable fashion choices of his late best friend, how he saved the day at Brian’s wedding, his sudden death in 2023, still communicating with him via writing le...

Comedian Tim Limbrick came over and we talked about his father’s life as a preacher, his sudden death in Liberia, the difficulties in bringing a loved one’s remains back to America from a different continent, the finite amount of PTO that we al...

Comedian Shea Vassar came on the podcast and we talked about losing her mother to cancer, being surprised by death even when you see it coming, processing grief through joke writing, the tasks we do to occupy our time after loss, and letting go...

Comedian Brian Rabadeau came over and we talked about his close relationship growing up with his father, the falling-out they had during the pandemic, the bitterness that followed when he passed away from Covid, feeling sympathy for victims of ...

Comedian Katherine Gorham told me about the sudden loss of father in 2023, when her college friend lost his battle with cancer, the spiritual self-gaslighting that came after the losses, how the same insurance company that screwed her dad over ...

I had a great time talking with former-lawyer-turned-comedian Ricky Sim about immigrating from Malaysia to New York City as a teenager, his mother’s sickness and death, dealing with her inability to accept his sexuality, and Coming Out To Dead ...

Comedian Delia Kemph came over and told me about the life and memory of her father Dean, the friends who showed up to support in the aftermath, singing at his funeral, and doing stand up for the first time ever on his birthday five years after ...

Comedian Alex Pischera came over and told me about his father’s life as an NYPD captain and 9/11 first responder, the stage 3 melanoma that was likely accelerated from that event, when his death was announced to Alex’s entire school, and why hi...

Comedian/actor Chris Lamberth (Comedy Cellar) came on the podcast and we talked about our fathers, his parents getting to see him make it to Broadway, purchasing an urn on Amazon, and how fortunate it is to have a great dad.FO...

Comedian Paige Smith-Hogan joined me to talk about the life and memory of her mother, the intersection of grief and humor, and Dead Parents Society, her stand-up showcase of comedians who’ve lost a parent.FOLLOW PAIGE SMITH-HO...

Comedian/TV writer Ellory Smith came on the podcast and we talked about when she lost her grandfather, her friend took his own life, and her father died all in the span of a year, finding humor in grief, and how beautiful it is to live a life w...

Comedian Carrie Ross came over and told me about the memory of her late aunt, living on the spectrum, the repercussions (and revelations) from telling jokes about deceased relatives, comedian friends we’ve lost, and more.FOLLO...

The FIFTIETH EPISODE! Comedian Savannah DesOrmeaux sat down with me and we talked about our dads, the ways their respective deaths shaped our lives, the buffoonery of funerals, and other things that we’ve learned from our grief.<...

Comedian Ross Parsons came over and we talked about his brother's life, addiction, untimely death, failures of the healthcare system, navigating different levels of acceptance, and gratitude for the friends who showed support after the loss.

Comedian Will Purpura came on the podcast and told me about his father’s sudden death when he was a teenager, how their close relationship might have changed had he lived, how therapy has helped him realize pain caused by rejection of his sexua...