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

They said, what's next?

They said, Alaska.

Everybody cool with AL?

and it had a joke that also was very popular about me role playing with my wife and I'm a professor but I take it way too seriously.

And she's a student who's failing my class.

So I'm a professor at a prestigious New England university and my girlfriend is a senior in my intro to Western Civ.

I know, why is she a senior in the intro?

And they couldn't sell it.

A production company paid for the special.

Nobody wanted it.

And I said, but this was the best I could get.

And I can't even sell it.

And it was much easier to sell specials back then.

And it just devastated me and was sort of a part of a number of different things that happened.

that happened to me.

I lost my dad, and so all these things sort of came together to keep me from getting out of the house and getting out of bed a lot of days.

So my manager, Brian, said, what if we did a hybrid of a special with a documentary?

I just worked with a documentarian.

His name is Mike Bonfiglio.

And Mike had just worked with Judd Apatow on the Avett Brothers movie and a couple of 30 for 30s, and the Gary Shandling, the Gary Shandling documentary, and he later did the George Carlin.

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