Broti Gupta Would Prefer Not To Be Serious For Even One Hour, Thank You

Broti Gupta Would Prefer Not To Be Serious For Even One Hour, Thank You

It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Broti Gupta. This comedy thing. It wasn’t supposed to be happening at all. She grew up the daughter of a doctor and there was an expectation she’d follow the same path. But as a college student, she just couldn’t shake the strong interest in comedy that led her down a different path entirely, away from med school and toward places like the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and Second City. Today, she’s a writer for The Simpsons and a rising star in comedy circles.

One indication that her heart was not in medicine? A visit to a college counselor who challenged Broti to not try to make him laugh for one entire appointment. It’s a challenge she did not accept. For Broti Gupta, the laughs were not just a way of coping with some mental health issues but also a way of approaching life itself.

Follow Broti Gupta on Twitter @BrotiGupta. Listen to and support Broti's podcast with Dylan Gelula, Lecture Hall, on Patreon.

Thank you to all our listeners who support the show as monthly members of Maximum Fun.

Hey, remember, you’re part of Depresh Mode and we want to hear what you want to hear about. What guests and issues would you like to have covered in a future episode? Write us at depreshmode@maximumfun.org.

Help is available right away.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255, 1-800-273-TALK

Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741.

International suicide hotline numbers available here: https://www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines

The Depresh Mode newsletter is available twice a week. Subscribe for free and stay up to date on the show and mental health issues. https://johnmoe.substack.com/

John's acclaimed memoir, The Hilarious World of Depression, is available here.

Find the show on Twitter @depreshpod and Instagram @depreshpod.

John is on Twitter @johnmoe.

Jaksot(278)

Niko Stratis on Dad Rock, Glasswork, Depression, Addiction, and Becoming Herself

Niko Stratis on Dad Rock, Glasswork, Depression, Addiction, and Becoming Herself

Niko Stratis knew a couple of things growing up in the Yukon in Canada: that she was, in truth, a woman, despite being regarded by the world as male, and that being trans or different in any way was a...

9 Helmi 58min

SPECIAL EPISODE: Mental Health and ICE in Minnesota

SPECIAL EPISODE: Mental Health and ICE in Minnesota

The ICE surge in Minnesota has meant a huge number of arrests, protests, confrontations, deportations, children and adults sent to detention facilities, and deaths. It’s also meant massive anxiety, fe...

6 Helmi 23min

Amanda Knox on Facing Her Prosecutor, Her Past, Her Trauma, and Her Future

Amanda Knox on Facing Her Prosecutor, Her Past, Her Trauma, and Her Future

In 2007, Amanda Knox, an American studying abroad in Italy, was arrested, tried, and convicted of the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After years in an Italian jail, she was ultimately freed...

2 Helmi 54min

Intentionally Blunt and Very Useful Talk About Suicide with Clancy Martin

Intentionally Blunt and Very Useful Talk About Suicide with Clancy Martin

Suicide is a problem. It’s perpetually a top cause of death around the world but society shames it, stigmatizes it, and is reluctant to discuss it even when talking about it would save lives. Well gue...

26 Tammi 1h 3min

Stephanie Foo on Complex PTSD, Finding Recovery, and This American Life

Stephanie Foo on Complex PTSD, Finding Recovery, and This American Life

It was several years into her talk therapy sessions that Stephanie Foo was offered a diagnosis: complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or C-PTSD. Regular PTSD stems from a single traumatic event like...

19 Tammi 52min

A.J. Daulerio on Bipolar, Substances, Depression, Suicide, and the Psychic Weight of Hulk Hogan

A.J. Daulerio on Bipolar, Substances, Depression, Suicide, and the Psychic Weight of Hulk Hogan

A.J. Daulerio exists as a caricature to a lot of people because he was the guy who published a clip from a Hulk Hogan sex tape on Gawker, got sued by Hogan, and he and Gawker lost to the tune of a $14...

12 Tammi 58min

Two Truths To Make 2026 a Better Mental Health Year

Two Truths To Make 2026 a Better Mental Health Year

We live in complicated times and, for a whole lot of us, we do so with complicated minds. A billion people worldwide are living with some form of mental illness and 20% of the U.S. population has expe...

5 Tammi 41min

Mike Doughty Was Recently Hospitalized for Depression Twice. It Helped.

Mike Doughty Was Recently Hospitalized for Depression Twice. It Helped.

It was two years into a vicious cycle of depression and Mike Doughty was falling apart. He was taking more Ambien than he had been prescribed, importing huge boxes of the stuff from India, waking up t...

29 Joulu 202545min

Suosittua kategoriassa Komedia

nikotellen
anni-jaajo
tuplakaak
antin-matka
olipa-kerran-otsikko
ihan-oikeesti
rss-saarinen-shoy
antin-palautepalvelu
antin-elokuvakerho
puurojengi
rss-nikotellen
rss-kaheli
naakkavalta
rss-napy
rss-kuukka-vehvilainen-hartlin
rss-tuhannes-podcast
rss-ruokacast
everypodi
ela-viitti
kasper-ja-mikko-suomen-suosituin-podcast