Rob Delaney: A Heart that Works is a Heart that Hurts

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Comedians have the ability to be unsparingly honest in ways that buck all cultural norms. It’s a truth-telling that so many of us crave. Cue Rob Delaney. Rob is a comedian, actor, writer, and director. His memoir, A Heart That Works is an unsparing account of the death of his beautiful son, Henry. Rob lives in London with his family where Kate visited him for this honest and hilarious conversation. Kate and Rob discuss: The importance of finding people who really understand what you’re feeling What not to say to people whose kids have died How tragic loss exiles you to a planet where only those who understand grief live The ways we hope grief metabolizes in us and transforms us into empathetic, heart-open kinds of people Rob wants us all to understand that if the unthinkable happens, our hearts still beat so strong in truth and love. CW: hard-earned explicit language of a bereaved parent, death of parent, Suicide, death of a child *** Watch clips from this conversation, read the full transcript, and access discussion questions by clicking here. Follow Kate on Instagram, Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:56.8	Hi, I'm Kate Boller and this is Everything Happens.
1:23.3	Okay, Confession, some of my very favorite humans in the world have one job, and their
1:30.1	job is comedian.
1:33.4	There is just something about their ability to be unsparingly, sometimes painfully honest,
1:42.4	that just destroys the cultural scripts we get about what nice or polite looks like.
1:48.4	And it's the kind of truth telling that I think that so many of us crave, like we don't
1:53.6	want the niceties, we don't want the platitudes, we want honesty, and maybe a second to laugh
2:01.4	about how ridiculous our lives have become.
2:05.6	We want the kind of truth from people who have the eyes to see, you know, like they get it,
2:11.3	they get the joy, they get the absurdity, and they get the kind of tenderness underneath
2:17.2	about what makes us all human.
2:20.2	So this episode is really special to me because I've been really hoping to meet this guy.
2:27.3	Rob Delaney is one of my very favorite funny people.
2:31.8	He's a comedian and he's an actor and writer, so he co-created co-starred this critically
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