Gary Gulman
speaker
403 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Gary Gulman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So fail better became my mantra.
I've heard that expression has been co-opted by tech bros, and shame on them, because...
Because it was so helpful that even when I was bombing on stage, I could feel, no, I'm making progress because I'm talking about this thing in depression and treatment that isn't easy to get laughs off of.
My manager, who kept in touch with me.
What's the manager's name?
Brian Stern.
And at no point did he say, when are you going to get back on stage?
But when I did start to get back on stage, he said, what if we did a hybrid of a documentary and a special?
Yeah, I had done three specials.
And it was actually the previous special that I had done that I felt was a trigger for
It was a trigger for this episode of depression.
I don't think it was everything, but the fact that I had made a special in like 2014 or 15 that I felt was the best work I could do.
What was that special?
It was called It's About Time.
And it had a joke that's since gone viral about abbreviating the states.
How are they going to make a 98-minute documentary about a task that couldn't have taken more than six minutes to complete?
Started off, they thought it was going to be easy because Alabama lulled them into a false sense of security.
They said, Alabama, AL, holy crap, this is easy.
We're going to finish before they stop serving breakfast in the hotel restaurant.
And they got back to abbreviating.
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