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The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

A show about clinical depression... with laughs? Well, yeah. Depression is an incredibly common and isolating disease experienced by millions, yet often stigmatized by society. The Hilarious...

Episodes

20 of 97 episodes

Introducing Depresh Mode with John Moe: Joel Kim Booster Is In A Pit

It's tempting to try to look for a reason why Joel Kim Booster, ordinarily a very funny and engaging person, feels dead inside, trapped in a...

00:51:41Aug 4, 2021

Movies That Get Depression Right

It’s easy for movies to get depression wrong, portraying a clinical disorder as equivalent to just being bummed out and, in the case of roma...

00:45:18May 25, 2020

Steven Page Camouflages Songs About Depression

As co-founder and co-frontman for the band Barenaked Ladies, Steven Page belted out a lot of up-tempo pop hits. But if you look at the lyric...

00:45:28May 18, 2020

Mike Birbiglia Faces His Darkest Fears and Puts Them On Stage

Monologist and comedian Mike Birbiglia has always had a mile-long dark streak. Even if he’s never been diagnosed with clinical depression, h...

00:41:02May 11, 2020

Free Chapters of The Hilarious World of Depression: The Book: The Audiobook

To celebrate the release of our book we are excited to offer you a sneak preview of the audio version, read by author and THWoD host John Mo...

00:42:52May 4, 2020

Emmy Blotnick Once Ate a Whole Head of Cabbage. Alone. In Silence.

Standup comedian and writer Emmy Blotnick is a rising star in the comedy world. But along the path to success, she’s had to navigate a depre...

00:47:18Apr 27, 2020

Lulu Miller Treats Her Depression With Fish Research, Finds Fish Don’t Exist

Public radio and podcast audiences have been listening to Lulu Miller’s storytelling for years on Radiolab and on Invisibilia, a show she co...

00:47:01Apr 20, 2020

Dave Holmes Puts the ADHD in Dave Holmes

Some people don’t have short job titles. Dave Holmes is, among other things, a writer, MTV VJ (despite losing the contest that landed him th...

00:42:48Apr 13, 2020

Call A Friend, Find Out How They’re Doing

During this long stretch of just staying home, we decided to reach out to some friends of THWoD, hear their voices, and find out how they're...

00:33:12Apr 6, 2020

Lori Gottlieb Has Seen All Possible Sides of Therapy

Having experienced therapy as a patient, a student, and an actual therapist, Lori Gottlieb has a lot of insight into what therapy is, what i...

00:50:11Mar 30, 2020

Jameela Jamil Has an Ambitious Goal: To Feel Things


She was one of the stars of NBC’s The Good Place , a tv and radio host in England, and she’s created a popular movement aimed at celebrating...

00:45:01Mar 23, 2020

A Message From Inside John's Closet. I Mean Office.

Hi, it’s John, and I’m sending you this recording from my makeshift office about what’s going on for us THWoD-balls during COVID-19, and ide...

00:15:43Mar 18, 2020

Theo Fleury: Trauma, stardom, and a downward spiral on the latest Tremendous Upside

Theo Fleury hit the ice at age five. He was a hockey phenom at 14, a Stanley Cup champion at 20 and an Olympic gold medalist at 33. He was a...

00:30:45Jan 27, 2020

THWoD Special: Tremendous Upside with Chamique Holdsclaw and Metta World Peace

A special episode of our new sister program from the makers of THWoD. Tremendous Upside is a bit like THWoD, but instead of John Moe talking...

00:31:39Jan 13, 2020

Introducing Tremendous Upside

We are delighted to announce a brand new show coming your way from the THWoD team. Tremendous Upside is a series of interviews with athletes...

00:07:19Dec 16, 2019

Depression's Eleven Big Lies EXPOSED!

It's helpful to know that depression lies to you, that it presents the world in a way that is false just to mess you up. It's even more help...

00:48:57Dec 9, 2019

Darryl "DMC" McDaniels Finds Therapy More Helpful Than Olde English 800

Run-DMC was about as successful as recording artists could be. Packed concerts, multi-platinum selling albums, MTV, fame, fortune, the whole...

00:46:54Nov 18, 2019

Mark Duplass Has Two Speeds: Go and Crash

Filmmaker and actor Mark Duplass has been prolific over the course of his career. Along with his brother and creative partner, Jay Duplass,...

00:49:38Nov 11, 2019

Angelina Spicer Wants to Say Things Out Loud About Postpartum Depression

There's a lot of information being thrown at parents when a baby is on the way: how to make a birth plan, what kind of car seat to get, what...

00:44:36Nov 4, 2019

Miz Cracker Looks in the Mirror

Max Heller’s life was falling apart. He was drinking heavily, using every kind of pill he could get his hands on, and isolating from society...

00:48:55Oct 28, 2019