Monday, September 6, 2021

Boston Globe: "Depression is no joke. So why are comedians so good at talking about it?"

"There are certain types of weather that are better for depressives,” the comedian Aparna Nancherla says in a 2016 stand-up special. “I love it when it rains. It reminds me of why I got into the whole sad game, you know? . . . Whenever it’s pouring outside, as a sad person you can turn to any random optimist on the street and just be like ‘Hey! You’re in my world now.’”

In January 2019, the comedian and TV writer Jaboukie Young-White tweeted, “How are people out here with no therapy not taking any prescribed or illicit drugs just raw dogging reality[?]” A few months later, he followed up with: “Yall ever drink an iced coffee so strong that for like 4 minutes you have hope[?]”
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Marc Maron writes: "I am always walking around preparing for and reacting to the horrors of what my brain is making up."VALERIE MACON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Marc Maron writes: "I am always walking around preparing for and reacting to the horrors of what my brain is making up."VALERIE MACON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES


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