Episode #5: Andy Richter on Youthful Melancholy and Twisted Entertainers
The Hilarious World of Depression
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The Neurosis of Comedy
The idea of dissonance, zagging when you're supposed to zig, that is something that comedy and depressive people have in common. You aren't supposed to feel bleak and hopeless all the time, and yet you do. It's part of who I am, but it's also part of, I've been in therapy for 650 years. So I know that it's all part of a neurosis too."
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