(This might be a good time to point out that listening to a comedian’s podcast is, almost without exception, free.)
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The paradox of the podcast explosion among comics is that it’s at once a minirenaissance for comedy and a retreat by comics further into themselves - a sort of talking cure for a group of people who suffer from something not yet covered, I don’t believe, in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: a need, when not formally doing comedy, to talk about how and why one does comedy. Tompkins Jimmy Pardo’s boasting, double-negatively, of being “ Never Not Funny” and the breakout comedy podcast “ WTF,” hosted by Marc Maron and picked up by the Public Radio Exchange. There are the alpha dogs like Christopher Titus (“ Christopher Titus Podcast”) the antic radio theater of “ The Pod F. Go to iTunes, browse the comedy-podcast section and you’ll see them all hiding out there, like subtenants in an illegal loft building of show business: the stand-up comics with their podcasts. As a result, “The Mental Illness Happy Hour” isn’t funny if anything, it’s so unfunny that it takes a few episodes to realize that what you’re listening to is not a goof. Gilmartin takes this cliché seriously, creating a perversely safe place in which he and his guests talk about their fears, addictions and traumatic childhoods.
And no wonder: the tone of the show plays to the trope that all comedians are in actuality broken people who are willing to expose their brokenness for our light amusement. This podcast, called “ The Mental Illness Happy Hour” and hosted by Paul Gilmartin, is filed on iTunes under Self Help, even though Gilmartin is a comedian and many of his guests are comedians. He spoke of his “fear that I’m not going to have enough money, which is connected to believing that I’m alone.” ) he made an insight about his depression. “I’m afraid to admit to myself that I’m sad, and I’m scared that I’m not going to work again.”īut then (still waiting for it.
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The podcasting comedian (wait for it) confessed that a cable TV show he had co-hosted for many years was about to go off the air. “Every time I think I’m out of the woods with my depression and my self-obsession, I manage to backslide, and then that makes me even more depressed.”
“I’ve really been in my head this last week,” a morbid-sounding comedian said on his podcast recently.
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