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Baby, this is Keke Palmer

Overcoming Loss Through Humor with Alexandra Madison and Jon Bouffard

Baby, this is Keke Palmer

Wondery

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Y’all, we all deal with grief in our own way—but could laughter really be the best medicine? Today, your favorite TikTok sketch comedy duo, Alexandra Madison and Jon Bouffard, open up about the heartbreaking loss of their child and how they navigated their grief through humor. They also spill the tea on some of the wildest advice they’ve been asked to give on their podcast “Give It To Me Straight”—including a mother-in-law out here poking holes in condoms—and break down why your sex life might just be the realest indicator of your relationship’s health.

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0:00.0

Hey, listeners, today's episode is one for the heart.

0:08.0

I've got your favorite husband and wife duo, Alexandra Madison, and John Bufar in the house,

0:13.0

and let me tell you, their story is one of love, loss, and resilience.

0:17.0

These two have been through it, but instead of letting grief tear them apart, they found a way to stay united and even bring humor into their healing.

0:24.1

How do you laugh through your tears? How do you hold on to each other when life feels impossible?

0:28.6

We're going to talk through all of that. So grab your tissue, maybe your favorite feel-good snack, and let's get into it because baby, this is Kiki Palmer.

0:39.4

No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling popo amazon music sit back and listen life love sex science covering it all especially

0:44.9

the bad because money always involved no matter what it is we gonna make it make sense

0:48.7

nothing else to do but kick it with the homies and kids so grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy

0:53.0

and get into the vibe that only one is

0:55.0

You know it's your girls.

0:56.0

Baby, this, this is Kiki, baby this is Kiki Poma, yeah.

1:05.0

I'm excited to talk to these two, Mom, because, you know, I love dark humor. You know me. You know your whole family. Me, Larry, Lurie, Rennie, we all love to get into it even when there's dark times. It really pulls us through. So I'm excited to talk to this couple because they've been through a lot. You know, they unfortunately lost a child. So sorry. Yeah, yeah, this past year. And it was tough. But the way that they dealt with was very in the open. And humor was a big part of how they dealt with their grief. And the part of their, I think probably their personality and just their kind of jovial state in general. Humor is healing. It can be very healing. And so I literally wanted to talk to you a little bit about that. Like, what role has humor played in your life? You know, because you're very funny, but you're also very funny in a crass way. Like, you just, like, tell it like it is. You know what I mean? Someone once said that I tell it like it is with religious overtones or undertones. I don't know.

2:01.4

Whatever.

2:02.9

Yeah.

2:03.7

I don't know.

2:04.6

I just think you have to find the humor in things that you just can't explain.

2:11.4

You know what I mean?

2:12.7

You know, you can sit there and cry about things, but sometimes you just have to just go,

2:17.2

wow, that really was fucked up. Let me see. How did things, but sometimes you just have to just go, wow, that really

2:18.0

was fucked up. Let me see. How did this happen? And you just kind of find the humor in it.

2:23.5

I mean, your dad and I both have been able to find the humor, you know, in many different things

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