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'Comedy is my way of making sense of life': the comics standing up for mental health by Paul Fleckney

As the series Comedy Against Living Miserably launches, two comedians explain how their jobs affect their emotional wellbeing " and how they hope to help their audiences "Every time you get depressed, comedy will be there to drag your ass out of it," said Robin Williams in 1996. It is a gut-punch of a quote, considering that depression was one of the factors that led to his death 18 years later (although his wife has…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM on March 23, 2020

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