About the Show

Comedian Paul Gilmartin hosts a weekly, hour-long audio podcast consisting of interviews with artists, friends and the occasional doctor.

The show is geared towards anyone interested in or affected by depression, addiction and other mental challenges which are so prevalent in the creative arts.

Paul’s hope is that the show and this website will give people a place to connect, smile and feel the return of hope. The biggest myth about mental illness is that you are alone and there is no help.

Help starts with talking to someone who knows exactly how you feel. So stop staring out the window with your jaw open thinking about what might have been. Open up. Read the message board. Post stuff. Ask for help. Give help. Take a survey so we can get to know mental illness better.

This site is not intended to replace the need for medical diagnosis. Please leave that to professionals. It’s not a doctor’s office. Think of it more as a waiting room that doesn’t suck.

Paul Gilmartin

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From 1995 to 2011 Paul Gilmartin co-hosted TBS’ Dinner and a Movie. As a standup he has appeared 0n Comedy Central Presents: Paul Gilmartin and numerous other shows that everyone has since forgotten. He is a frequent guest on the Jimmy Dore Show performing political satire as right-wing Congressman Richard Martin. He is the host/producer of the Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast.

Paul was thrilled to be diagnosed with clinical depression in 1999 because it meant he wasn’t just an asshole. By 2003, he realized he was still an asshole and an alcoholic. Since 2003 he has been sober, mostly happy and a tiny bit less of an asshole.

“Praised by listeners all over the world” – Atlantic Monthly

“A perversely safe place in which he and his guests talk about their fears, addictions and traumatic childhoods.” – NY Times

“Normalizes what so many others feel but have been too fearful or ashamed to express…remarkable” – Psychology Today

Featured in 2013 PBS Documentary “A New State of Mind”

2011 Top Ten Podcast of the Year – The Onion A.V. Club

2012 People’s Choice Podcast of the Year (Health/Fitness category)

5/5 Itunes rating