Gary Gulman

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403 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Freakonomics Radio · How Gary Gulman Turned Depression Into Comedy Gold | Better in Person · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, he was one of my heroes.

Him and Richard Lewis, I think, and David Brenner also.

Only Jewish comics.

It's interesting, because I also loved Richard Pryor and George Carlin, but the two that I saw myself in were Gary Shandling and Richard Lewis.

But I didn't think I could pull off that style.

It was too smart and too hard.

No, I didn't understand the context.

I think Lenny Bruce is all about the context and how brave he was.

There were certain Lenny Bruce jokes that I liked, but for the most part, I just think of him as somebody who other comedians were standing on his shoulders prior in Carlin and Richard Lewis types.

Yeah.

This is how a conversation works.

Yeah, I agree.

But I must have at some point read somebody saying that you should write the book you want to read.

And I extrapolated that to being the comedian I would want to see.

So Emerson, in Self-Reliance, said that the specific...

is universal, which seems impossible.

But I have found that the more specific an art is, the more it resonates with me.

I'm anxious in the same way that I used to get excited before a basketball practice or a game.

I can't wait to go out there and play.

Although there were times...

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