Adam Cayton-Holland | Comedy in a Time of Darkness

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  My guest Today, Adam Caton Holland, is a stand up comic who has appeared on Conan, the Late Late show with James Corden, Comedy Central Presents at midnight, the Meltdown with Jonah and Kamal, Hidden America, and was named one of Esquire's 25 comics to watch, as well as one of ten comics to watch by Variety.

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  And along with his cohorts in the Grawlix, he created, wrote, and starred in those who can't, which aired for three seasons on True TV.

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  He also released a series of comedy albums, and his writing has appeared all over the place, from the Village Voice, Spin, New York Times, Esquire, the Atlantic, and more.

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  His book, Tragedy Plus Time, reveals a deeply personal journey that Adam has taken, supporting his sister through mental illness that led devastatingly to suicide and moved him to re examine his own life and then try to figure out how you move forward being on stage, doing what you love, especially when your job is to stand in front of a room of people or a screen with potentially millions of people watching and make them laugh when you're dealing with your own stifling grief.

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  We explore all of this along with the many experiences that have shaped him and built his career in today's conversation.

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  So excited to share it with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  I always drew cartoons and stuff, like comic strips.

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  I wanted to do that.

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  And then when I got to high school, I had a really great teacher who was the english teacher, but also the newspaper guy.

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  And so I got on newspaper staff, and then he started letting us write humor stuff.

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  Onion knockoffs or Dave Letterman top ten list.

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  And once we started doing that, it was like, these are my people.

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  I would sit in the back and write humor with friends.

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  And we would start each newspaper class by breaking down the two Simpsons episodes we had watched the night before on reruns on Fox, and then tell all those jokes and be like, okay, let's write some funny stuff.

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  And then, yeah, once I started doing that at 15, it was over.

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  That's amazing.

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  Was it the art, the express, like, the artistic expression side that was jamming on you?

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  Or was it more like the social commentary or just.

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  Yes.

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