Hey friend, welcome back to another episode of Dying Laughing. I am your grief guru, Jesse May

Paluso. This episode comes from a moment where everything felt conflicting. Like the world was on fire,

but life was still happening. There were shootings. There were heartbreak. There was collective grief.

And the shooting in Australia shook all of us.

And at the same time, I was on stage in La Jolla telling jokes, laughing with my people, feeling

connected and alive. And that's what this episode really is all about, the grief of joy,

the grief of feeling joy, that strange, uncomfortable

tension where you're experiencing something good while the world is on fire and unraveling

all around you, where you have to ask yourself, is it cool to laugh right now?

Am I an asshole to feel joy when so much pain exists?

And if you've ever felt that, I want you to know, you're not crazy.

You're not broken.

You're a freaking human being.

In this episode, I talk about why joy can feel almost dangerous during dark times

and why we sometimes feel guilt for feeling good.

I talk about Rob Reiner a little bit.

I also talk about what it feels like to be on stage

in La Jolla and how comedy and connection and laughter doesn't erase the heaviness. How somehow

it makes room for it all. How joy doesn't mean you're ignoring the pain. It just means

you're surviving it. So if you've been feeling torn between gratitude and grief,

laughter and sadness, hope, heartbreak, this one's for you. Let's talk about the grief of joy. Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of Dying Laughing.

We're in my kitchen studio and my refrigerator just decided to drop a bunch of ice.

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