Chris Gethard Does Not Avoid the Collision

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and actor Chris Gethard has a lifetime of experience with depression. Chris has turned moments of his life dealing with the illness into an off-Broadway show and an HBO special, which is more than one might expect from a fight-prone, often manic, kid from West Orange, New Jersey. We cover a lot of ground in this talk, including the role of a racist homeowner in his lowest moment.

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things.
0:04.8	I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival.
0:08.5	On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to
0:13.8	tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario.
0:20.0	Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything.
0:26.4	Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.6	Hey, quickly before we get started, if you can get to St. Paul, Minnesota on October 13th,
0:36.0	do we are hosting the hilarious night of depression at the Fitzgerald theater with guests Paul
0:42.6	F. Tomkins, Amy Mann, Ted Leo and Annamarie Cox. It's going to be a lot of fun, jokes and songs
0:50.0	and coping. It's going to be a blast. I want to hang out with you. Tickets are available at Fitzgerald
0:55.4	theater.org. Is depression funny? Everything's funny. I know for a fact that if someone kidnapped me
1:04.1	and put me in the trunk of their car and I could slip the gag off, I'd be trying to shout through
1:09.2	the back seat and make them laugh in the hopes that they'd let me go. I know whatever happened.
1:13.2	If someone chained me up in a basement and put me through the worst forms of abuse, you can imagine
1:19.2	the next time the basement door opened, I feel like I'd be going, hey, man, what's up with these
1:23.5	stains on your walls? They kind of look like this, right? That one stall, that one stain is kind of,
1:28.6	doesn't it looks sort of like a, it's shaped like Hugh Jackman's Wolverine hair? How come that one?
1:33.3	Please don't do, oh god, he's doing it again. And I'd be trying to make jokes because that's the
1:37.2	escape mechanism I know.
1:53.5	The guy goes in to see a doctor says there's something wrong with me I've got. The sadness I can't shake now
2:03.0	is there something I can't take now. It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Mow,
2:10.5	Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, Bigfoot. Are they myths or are they the most cunningly
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