Solomon Georgio Is Doing Better

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

It's not easy to pinpoint where L.A.-based comedian Solomon Georgio is "from." His family is Ethiopian but he was born in a refugee camp in Sudan. The family traveled to St Louis, then on to Fresno, where he was bullied so much in 2nd grade that he threatened suicide in the middle of class. Then there were many years in Seattle where he says his parents were abusive and had no tolerance for Solomon's homosexuality. A disastrous runaway trip to Los Angeles ended up in a return to Seattle where he embraced comedy and relocated himself, again and much more successfully to Southern California. His depression isn't a thing of the past but he's definitely in a good place.

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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.
0:30.4	Have you ordered a pizza and then pretended for the pizza guys benefit that there are other people in
0:34.8	the house that you're going to share with? Oh, I don't play that game anymore, John.
0:39.3	Like if they tried having me extra utensils and like, no, no, no, no, no, there's a sad person here.
0:42.4	You keep that to yourself.
1:14.4	It's world of depression. I'm John Moe. We live in a society where life is easier if you're white,
1:20.8	straight, and have lots of money in connections and no mental illnesses. If you're not white,
1:26.3	not straight, grew up poor in an immigrant family, suffered abuse, and have a lot of anxiety and
1:32.4	depression. Life is not easier, but comedy is still possible. I'm Solomon Georgio and I'm in
1:40.8	Los Angeles, California, and I am a comedian and a writer for TV shows. Solomon Georgio's family
1:48.8	is Ethiopian. He was born in a refugee camp in Sudan, and then the family came to America.
1:54.7	Here's Solomon. On Comedy Central's, this is not happening, talking about the first part of his
1:59.7	life in this country. And I actually moved to America in 1985. My family, we first moved to
2:07.6	St. Louis, Missouri, because we all want to be introduced to racism at the same time.
2:17.0	And we're trying out for a couple of years. We're like, we better move.
2:21.2	And what we decided to do was move to Fresno, California.
2:27.2	If you're not familiar with Fresno, every part of Africa is better than Fresno, California.
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