Dying To Laugh: Funny People Talk About Death

This episode brings us comedian and writer Meghan Ross (Slop Sandwich, That Time of the Month) on nasal spray commercials, telling people you’re a comedian, and a Watch What Happens Live funeral.Celebrity Bar Tender!

Storyteller Devon Courtney Knight joins us to talk about her early experiences with death, tragedy on social media, and how important it is to feel uncomfortable.Squirmy!

Improviser Luke Field joins the podcast to talk horror, metal, and obsessing over death.What’s your favorite scary movie?

Writer, performer, and co-host of the Real Housewives of Bohemia podcast Lauren Besser joins us to talk death, family, and much more.Have a Listen!

Comedian Lui Vega joins us to talk about how he wants to be celebrated, hardcover books “making us hurt,” and the 2016 Presidential race.Get Into It!

Non-Ghost Chelsea Scott joins us as we get into on real ghosts.BOO!

SNL writer and co-host of Theme Party at UCB East Sudi Green joins us live in the Podcast Lounge at the 18th Del Close Marathon in New York City.Join us won’t you?

Ryan Murray joins us to talk about his time as an alter server/boy, The Leftovers, and what 9/11 was like in his central New Jersey town. Do it now!

Liisa Hill Murray talks to us about music therapy, hospice care, “death doulas,” and so much more.Listen here!Liisa hosts That Time of the Month which you can catch Thursday 6/16/16 at the PIT Loft in New York. Hit that link for more dates if you’re listening from the future!

Jason Sweeten of UCB’s Maude Night joins us to talk about crying at work, suicidal thoughts, and the mysterious bad word spoken at his grandfather’s funeral.Jason is currently a writer for Choir, a sketch team you can see once a month at Maude Night.Listen here!

Welcome to Season 2! Comedian Kristen Strong joins us to talk about viewings, baby ghosts, and the expectation to recover from grief. Kristen is the orchestrator and host of the Myers Briggs Show where she puts together improv teams based on personality traits. You can see her perform with “The Overachiever” at the UCB Chelsea Theater in New York.

Theatre producer and arts administrator Megan Long chats with us about her experience with her family’s funeral home, including the qualities required of a good funeral director, the dress and makeup of a body, and learning people’s stories after they’ve died. Check it out!

Anthony Apruzzese joins us to talk about our visions of heaven, attempts to be funny around grieving people, and the relationship between spiritual afterlife and ghosts. Plus! We learn about the Fly Mortician.Let’s Go Mets!

Comedian Glo Tavarez talks with us about her grandfather and we all discuss the worst ways to die, bomb threats from school, and what makes teenagers are so scary.Join us won’t you?

Alexis Rhiannon joins us as we discuss anxiety over our parents’ preparation for death, the vulnerability involved in asking people for help, and also the creepy way kids sometimes think and talk about death.Click to listen!

Kristen Bartlett talks about writing about death in comedy, how to be good grown-ups for our grieving friends, and the absurd real people who inspired The Dead Dads Club.Check it Out!

Kelsey Bailey chats with us about celebrity deaths, what might embarrass our dead selves, and what people we’d like to meet [intimately]. Plus: an accidental game of “Is this celebrity alive?”Listen up!

What would you like at your funeral? We discuss with Carly Earl who joins us for a discussion on sick animals, anger mixed up with grief, and math-induced panic attacks.Hey! Listen!

Trumane Alston joins us to talk about death in elementary school, the afterlife, and public breakdowns. All this, plus we confirm that none of us is as strong-willed as Trumane’s dad.Listen!

Comedian Zak Sommerfield joins us as we discuss our teachers’ mortality, Facebook memorial pages for animals and humans, and whether or not we’d like our enemies to come to our funerals. Plus: a brief exploration of body noises.Listen now!