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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...
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...
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...
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...
Monologist and comedian Mike Birbiglia has always had a mile-long dark streak. Even if he’s never been diagnosed with clinical depression, h...
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...
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...
Public radio and podcast audiences have been listening to Lulu Miller’s storytelling for years on Radiolab and on Invisibilia, a show she co...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Run-DMC was about as successful as recording artists could be. Packed concerts, multi-platinum selling albums, MTV, fame, fortune, the whole...
Filmmaker and actor Mark Duplass has been prolific over the course of his career. Along with his brother and creative partner, Jay Duplass,...
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...
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...
Actor and writer Charlene deGuzman grew up thinking that women should be like the centerfolds her father had plastered all over the garage:...
Can platforms like Facebook or Twitter or Instagram help with depression? They do offer a quick way to connect with other humans, after all....
It took a long time for singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham to get to some stability in his life. Growing up, his parents had problems with drugs...
Author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong ( dooce.com ) was in, by far, the deepest depression she had ever experienced and nothing was workin...
While it was easy for audiences to enjoy Mara Wilson as a perky child performer in movies like Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, the young actress...
Whitney Cummings has had a lot of success in Hollywood as a comedian, actress, writer and director, and now she's finally having success in...
You might know Pete Holmes from his many standup specials, his talk show, or Crashing, the HBO series he created and starred in. You might n...
We asked our listeners for books they've read that give an accurate depiction of the reality of depression. Happily, we got enough great sug...
Taking a trip somewhere new can be wonderful: the new experiences, the exciting culture, the unusual foods. For people who deal with depress...
Look, we know that THWoD can get a little, I guess, intense at times. Depression is a heavy topic and stories about it are often packed with...
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...
The idea was to become an engineer or maybe an architect. Jonny Sun has degrees in both, and he's a dissertation away from a doctorate in ur...
"There's a lot to unpack, John," says comedian, actor, and writer Naomi Ekperigin during the course of this interview and indeed there is. T...
Mental health is a journey. Rarely does someone have a problem, fix it completely, and never worry about it again. On this episode, we touch...
It's pretty easy to be a fan of Aparna Nancherla. Not only does she create incredibly funny, smart, relatable comedy, she does so in a varie...
In a whole lot of ways, improv comedy is the opposite of depression. It requires you to be present in the moment, unconcerned about past reg...
True stories of beautiful epiphanies and majestic, horrible disasters. Talk therapy is one of the most popular ways to address depression an...
Comedian and writer Guy Branum was expected to be a construction worker his whole life. Maybe a football player. He was large, strong, and g...
Our show took to the stage recently for a live event packed with laughter, insight, and music. We were joined by Paul F. Tompkins, Aimee Man...
Finding and using the right words for something as complex as mental illnesses can be exasperating. And it can take a lot of effort to avoid...
He's a writer, a stand-up comedian, and an actor, but Scott Thompson will likely always be best known as one of five members of The Kids in...
Comedian and actor Chris Gethard has a lifetime of experience with depression. Chris has turned moments of his life dealing with the illness...
Young people can be morose, angry, withdrawn. It's often chalked up to being a "phase," a natural initiation ritual to adulthood. What if it...
Long before Neko Case was known as one of the top singer-songwriters working today, she was a punk teenager running around the streets of Ta...
We asked you, our listeners, for the songs that help you most when depression is really acting up, and the stories behind those picks. On th...
You can think of Dave Nadelberg's vast Mortified project as The Hilarious World of Embarrassment , Awkwardness , and Redemption . Through st...
A lot of rappers are heavily influenced by the rough and real streets where they grew up. Mike Eagle grew up on those streets too but he was...
You know the feeling, right? You finally achieve something -- a new job, a promotion, an award -- and while you know you should be proud, yo...
Yeah, you don't hear a lot of on-stage material from Chris Rock or Sarah Silverman about the time they were on a mission with their unit in...
Celebrity chef and Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern has made a reputation as a culinary expert with an adventurous streak, traveling the w...