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The Hilarious World of Depression

Episode #PREVIEW: Season 2 starts Sept. 25!

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Season 2 of The Hilarious World of Depression starts on September 25, 2017. Get a jump on it by hearing from some of the comics, actors, authors, and musicians you'll get to know this season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Depression is difficult, but it can also be pretty funny. Just ask the fault in our

0:06.0

star's author, John Green.

0:07.8

I would always say to myself, like, just stop thinking that way. Just stop doing this.

0:12.9

You know, like, uh, which nobody ever says about the flu, you know? Like nobody's ever

0:18.1

like, just snap out of it, man. Stop having that stupid fever.

0:22.2

Or comedian Margaret Cho.

0:23.5

I suppose I have a great, great grandmother who, um, was very nasty and mean and she was

0:29.1

considered the ugliest woman in the village and she would dress and men's clothes and

0:33.2

be rate everyone and be really, really angry and crazy and cruel and, um, spoke to pipe

0:40.6

and everybody always says in my family, you make sure you're just like her.

0:45.3

Hey, everyone, John Moe here, proud to announce an all-new season of the hilarious world of depression.

0:51.8

Yep, we're back with a whole new set of open, honest and yes, sometimes funny conversations

0:58.4

with real celebrities who have really dealt with clinical depression.

1:02.4

The old clinic D, we call it, it's going to be a huge season with people like Russ

1:07.4

of Brand, Louis Anderson, Wayne Brady, Nico Case and many, many more.

1:13.5

Here what it was like for actor Will Wheaton to finally feel better.

1:17.3

It opened up a door that I didn't know was there and I could suddenly see this light

1:23.0

that I could walk toward and I went through that door and I didn't realize that there

1:29.0

was this world outside of that dark, loud room until all that I had left was that like

1:35.5

after you leave a really loud concert and all you have left is the ringing in your ears.

1:40.2

Singer songwriter Amy Mann tells us about ineffective childhood counseling.

1:45.0

You know, I remember times where I was sad and you know, my father was like, you know,

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