Death Is Hilarious
175 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 347 ratingsDeath is Hilarious is a podcast that talks about grief in a humorous, realistic, and death positive way with comedians and professionals in the grief space.
Tawny Platis, founder of Death is Hilarious Grief Relief Foundation and comedy content creator, started the podcast after her husband, George, passed away in November of 2019. They had a comedy podcast together called The Dirty Bits, which can still be found on this feed.
Watch the show live on Instagram @thatdeathpod
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Episodes
The Witty Widow-Episode 1: Tawny Platis
January 14, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBContent Warning: This Episode: (Death of a spouse, finding a loved one unresponsive, resuscitation attempts, saying goodbye in the home, the passing of the spouse happening in the home, lots of crying, dating after being widowed, depression, loneliness, dating apps, Beetlejuice, comic-con, skipping arm-in-arm, Hannah compares her and George's chest beauty). This podcast addresses sensitive subjects like death and loss… often graphically and with explicit language and dark humor. Listener d...
Entertaining Grief S1E1: Khal Drogo and Khaleesi + Feed Updates From The Witty Widow
December 28, 2019 23:58 - 13 minutes - 18 MBFor every episode commercial-free at just $1 a month, visit Patreon.com/wittywidow Welcome to "Processing Grief Through Entertainment,” a series where I talk about how watching and relating to movies and shows has been helping me gain perspective on and cope with the death of my husband. I hope maybe this same coping mechanism can also give you perspective on the grieving process. In this episode, I'll be talking about Khal Drogo and Khaleesi from Game of Thrones and how George and I saw our...
S1E1: Khal Drogo and Khaleesi - Entertaining Grief and Updates From The Witty Widow
December 28, 2019 23:58 - 13 minutes - 18 MBFor every episode commercial-free at just $1 a month, visit Patreon.com/wittywidow Welcome to "Processing Grief Through Entertainment,” a series where I talk about how watching and relating to movies and shows has been helping me gain perspective on and cope with the death of my husband. I hope maybe this same coping mechanism can also give you perspective on the grieving process. In this episode, I'll be talking about Khal Drogo and Khaleesi from Game of Thrones and how George and I saw our...
Monday Mourning Maisel S1E1: Incorporating Pain Into Your Art
December 16, 2019 13:00 - 14 minutes - 19.3 MBOriginally, I wanted to use Ms. Maisel to highlight to my students the dos and don'ts surrounding the business of entertainment in relation to voice over. I could relate to the show in multiple ways. In my day job, I was Alex Borstein, the determined talent manager who saw something great in an artist. But now I’m relating to it on an entirely different level because I have so much more in common with Midge than I ever did before. Join Midge Maisel and me as we cope with the loss of our spous...
Goodbye From The Dirty Bits + A Tribute To George
December 04, 2019 01:00 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBHey there lovebugs, I’m currently in Colorado visiting family and wasn’t planning on recording so I didn’t bring my set-up. But today just seemed like the right time. So forgive the audio quality and read the transcript here in the show notes or on TawnyVoice.com under "Blog." Ibrahim the Mad was the final episode of the Dirty Bits Podcast. George, my soulmate, husband, and partner in every way, sadly lost his battle with multiple health problems on November 8th, 2019. I will still ...
Ibrahim the Mad: With Tawny and George & After Dark: With Tawny and George
October 23, 2019 00:55 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBPsst...hey lovebugs, it’s Tawny. A quick word before we get started today: George is currently on oxygen and the machine is pretty darn loud. We’re trying to find a way to work around that in regards to the podcast, so you may notice the audio quality is a little funky in this episode. We appreciate your patience as we make adjustments in regard to George’s diagnosis. Stick around for this episode’s “After Dark” segment for more details. In This Episode: As we tell this story, keep in mind t...
Ibrahim the Mad: With Tawny and George
October 23, 2019 00:55 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBPsst...hey lovebugs, it’s Tawny. A quick word before we get started today: George is currently on oxygen and the machine is pretty darn loud. We’re trying to find a way to work around that in regards to the podcast, so you may notice the audio quality is a little funky in this episode. We appreciate your patience as we make adjustments in regard to George’s diagnosis. Stick around for this episode’s “After Dark” segment for more details. In This Episode: As we tell this story, keep in mind t...
Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald: With Tawny (Followed By Dirty Bits After Dark: With Tawny and George)
September 12, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBWelcome to The Dirty Bits of History. I’m Tawny Platis, a professional voice actor, who gives a casual, and comedic southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, salacious, fierce, funny, and freaky bits of history your teacher probably left out. Stay tuned after the episode or take a peek at the show notes for The Dirty Bits After Dark: Catching Up With Tawny and George, our contact info, coming attractions, and a special thank you message to our producers. For commercial-free epi...
Benjamin Franklin And A Special Note: With Tawny and George
July 26, 2019 08:00 - 36 minutes - 49.4 MBHis love for the ladies, particularly intelligent, young, beautiful ones, has been WELL documented. There were at least 13 women Benny-boy dated, er, at least... tried to date. This one is a surprisingly fun romp through flirty history.
Agnes Sorel: With Tawny
June 18, 2019 08:00 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBIn today’s episode, we’re taking it all the way back to 15th century France when Agnes Sorel, a lady in waiting from a family of minor nobility became the first officially recognized mistress to the king, inspired many artists of the time, most notably Jean Fouquet’s Virgo Lactan’s or the Nursing Virgin, and was the first woman to hashtag free the nipple.
Dirty Bits After Dark: Catching Up With Tawny and George
June 18, 2019 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.2 MBIn This Episode: Our lives may (finally) be boring. Favorite woman comedians? Why is your show in the LGBTQ category in podcast directory? Who’s Babbs? I see the name when you sign stuff. Who is your favorite podcaster? Game of Thrones finale? Yay or nay?
The Reverend Sylvester Graham: With Tawny and George
June 04, 2019 22:38 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBThe Reverend Sylvester Graham was a hell, fire, and brimstone Presbyterian minister who combined Christianity and healthy living, successfully pioneering the way for all of the self-help guru, diet faddists who now grace our Instagram feeds.
Dirty Bits After Dark: Catching Up With Tawny and George
May 29, 2019 00:45 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MBThe Questions: What kind of porn do you watch? What kind of music do you listen to? What are your favorite podcasts? What other movies, shows, podcasts etc. are like the Dirty Bits? Why did the show take a break? And I thought you were doing more and longer episodes? Do you have kids? Are you Greek Orthodox?
Napoleon Bonaparte: With Tawny and George
May 29, 2019 00:30 - 34 minutes - 48 MBA lot of people already know he was a pretty big important, controversial military and a lot of people already know he has a reputation for being into some weird sex shit. What you may not know is that he may have been the original fedora wearing self-proclaimed nice guy with a massive chip on his shoulder.
Mary Shelley: With Tawny and George
May 03, 2019 01:21 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBMary Shelley’s name has been waiting patiently on my episode list for over a year now. I’ve been conflicted about telling her story. One of the reasons I love producing a show about history is due to the fact that everyone is long dead. Nobody can be embarrassed or offended by any sarcasm or sass which makes it much easier to riff on my subjects without much hesitation. But Mary was different.
Dirty Bits After Dark: Catching Up With Tawny and George
May 03, 2019 00:56 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBGeorge's heart surgery went great! However, when he arrived back home, he was diagnosed with severe pneumonia. He has been in the hospital for two weeks and will be having surgery on Monday to remove the infected growths that were found on his right lung.
Spring 2019 Update With Tawny & George
April 17, 2019 23:49 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBWe give you an update on George's surgery and answer your questions from the anonymous suggestion/comment box thingy on our website.
Theodora of Byzantium: With Tawny
April 16, 2019 23:25 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBI’m especially excited to tell Theodora of Byzantium’s story because it’s refreshingly victorious. She’s best known as one of the most influential and powerful Empresses of the Eastern Roman Empire who went from hooker to high roller to Eastern Orthodox Saint. A lot of what we know about Theodora comes from the Byzantine scholar, Procopius. In his work, he goes back and forth from absolutely gushing about her to depicting her as a power-mad horndog.
Sappho of Lesbos: With Tawny
April 09, 2019 23:00 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBIf you’re a woman who also likes women, you may recognize her as what is basically the official patron saint of lesbians.
Olympe de Gouges: With Tawny
April 02, 2019 22:36 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBOlympe de Gouges was a French playwright, political activist, godmother of modern feminism, and a woman who was so revolutionary, the revolution wasn’t ready for her. Olympe de Gouges is the perfect poster child for the women’s movement and social justice. So why does it seem that so few people know who she is? And for those who do know her name, why is she remembered as a deceptive prostitute who wrote “The Declaration of the Rights of the Woman and the Female Citizen?”
Charlemagne: With Tawny
March 27, 2019 02:10 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBThe emperor is a lighter one to study because he’s from that time period where you get this blend of saints, mythology, and facts in glorious, gory, written detail. And they all weave together into a beautiful blend of supposition and tom fuckery.
Wallis Simpson: With Tawny
March 20, 2019 00:32 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBThis episode has everything- Nazis, a twisted Cinderella story, bratty pre-Instagram kids of the uber rich and famous, a disgraced prince, plane crashes, affairs galore, more rumors than facts, Mussolini, Winston Churchill, commies, a jewel heist….and that’s just scratching the surface.
Semicentennial: Cleopatra Philopator of Egypt: With Tawny
March 12, 2019 22:52 - 24 minutes - 33.9 MBIt's our 50th episode! I'm so happy we've made it this far. Geeze....and we haven't even come (heh heh) close to covering all the dirty bits of history. This episode is George's personal favorite of the podcast's and I hope you enjoy it as much as he did. Cleopatra VII Philopator, more commonly known simply as Cleopatra, was the last, technically for realsies, ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt because her son was pharaoh for like half a second. But she was also so much more than that.
Eva (Evita) Peron: With Tawny
March 06, 2019 00:49 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBLovebugs, this is a fun one. There are so many rumors and after 12 hours of research, I’ve barely scratched the surface of Eva Peron or Evita, as she’s often called. Eva Peron was an actress, turned First Lady, turned activist, turned kind of saint. You’re going to hear the word “supposedly” A LOT in this episode. Like a lot a lot. Things are a little murky about her life, particularly before she married Juan Peron, the man who would become the 29th and 41st president of Argentina.
Harriette Wilson: With Tawny
February 27, 2019 02:33 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBHistory. Edutainment. The Dirty Bits Podcast. You've been patiently waiting and now it's here. Season 3 of the Dirty Bits Podcast begins with a famous courtesan releasing her memoirs in the 1820s and calling out everyone she slept with in delightful detail, by name, if they hadn’t paid her ahead of time to omit the saucy details before publication.
November Update From Tawny of The Dirty Bits Podcast
November 08, 2018 04:20 - 8 minutes - 12 MBHey guys, it’s Tawny from the Dirty Bits here and heads up, this is unfortunately not a casual retelling of any sexy, scandalous, or salacious stories from history. This is just me talking. So if you’re just holding out for our latest episode, you can go ahead and skip this because it’s just an update for those of you who aren’t in our Facebook group, the Lovebug Brigade, and have been wondering what’s been going on while season 3 has yet to appear in your favorite podcatcher.
What Is The Dirty Bits?
October 17, 2018 21:00 - 43 seconds - 994 KBThe Dirty Bits Podcast is performed by a professional voice actor who gives a casual -and hopefully, comical- Southern Californian retelling of the sexy, scandalous, and salacious stories from history your teacher probably left out.
Charlie Chaplin Part 3 - Season Finale: Classic Hollywood
May 30, 2018 04:15 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBLast time we checked in with Charlie, he got hit hard with a divorce settlement, one that may be the largest in history and his reputation was trashed because the public saw him as this cradle robbing sexual deviant who had even more dick in his personality than he did in his pants.
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Substitute Teacher Episode)
May 22, 2018 14:00 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBThe cool stuff- she was a warrior, a brilliant military strategist, an adept diplomat and politician and a symbol against oppression. She also had a harem with dozens of men she'd kill after she slept with them.
Charlie Chaplin Part 2- Classic Hollywood
May 15, 2018 14:00 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBLast week on the Dirty Bits, we covered Charlie Chaplin’s family history. His mother may have been a prostitute to support herself and her children, his dad seemed like a drunken jerk, and overall, it was a super sad story.
Charlie Chaplin Part 1- Classic Hollywood
May 08, 2018 14:00 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBLovebugs, this dude has one of the gnarliest Cinderella Stories I’ve ever heard with a messed up family to boot. I didn’t know was just how far back all of the dirty bits, went....you know, the scandalous, salacious, and sexy stuff we cover.
Mae West Part 3- Classic Hollywood
May 01, 2018 14:00 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBLast week, we left a tired-of-everyone’s-bullshit Mae West at the end of her rope, with cinema and radio. She knew she was stupendous and she didn’t need Hollywood, so girl packed up all her jewels, boas, tight fitting dresses, and innuendos ... and headed for Vegas.
Mae West Part 2 - Classic Hollywood
April 24, 2018 14:00 - 20 minutes - 28.6 MBLast week we left off with Mae West having been incarcerated for her provocative plays and then she made a kinda stupid comment about being an early supporter of Women’s Lib... but not being a “bra burning feminist,” as she said.
Mae West Part 1 – Classic Hollywood
April 17, 2018 14:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBMae West was a writer, an actress,and a comedian, starting in vaudeville and thriving through the Wall Street crash where she first introduced what, was at the time, a unique concept- shocking the public as a career.
Florence Henderson - Classic Hollywood
April 10, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBFlorence Henderson was an extremely talented, versatile, and busy lady who had an incredibly difficult beginning that she absolutely refused to allow define her. I don’t toss around the word “inspirational” lightly but girl was inspirational as fuuuuuck.
Clara Bow Part 2 – Classic Hollywood
April 03, 2018 14:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBMae West is not only working herself to death, likely dealing with some daddy issues, and is feeling the pressures of being such a mega celebrity, there are some very public scandals of the most foul nature circulating around our poor little flapper girl.
Clara Bow Part 1 – Classic Hollywood
March 27, 2018 14:00 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MBClara Bow was a tomboy, she was sexy, she was a flapper. She was the girl you had fun with and everyone liked but was a little too rough around the edges to bring home to mom. She was an American actress who got her start in the silent film era of the 20’s and made the rare, successful transition to talkies by 1927.
Kitty Fisher – (Substitute Teacher Episode)
March 20, 2018 14:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MBThat’s right, we’re opening up the vault to tell you the story of the first Paris Hilton, the original Kim Kardashian, the one, the only, Kitty Fisher.
Katharine Hepburn Part 2 – Classic Hollywood
March 13, 2018 14:00 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBRealizing that her career was fading faster than a kid who swallowed a Tide Pod, Hepburn took action to arrange a project that would launch her back into the limelight.
Katharine Hepburn Part 1– Classic Hollywood
March 06, 2018 15:00 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MBKatharine Hepburn was an American actress known for her fierce independence, spirited personality, and flawless hot roller hair-dos. A hipster of her time period, Hepburn wore trousers before it was cool or acceptable for women to do so. She epitomized the “modern woman” in the 20th century and will be remembered as a woman who helped change society’s expectations.
Clark Gable – Classic Hollywood
February 27, 2018 15:00 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBClark Gable had a lot in common with Errol Flynn. He was simultaneously both THE shit and a piece of shit, earning the nickname “The King of Hollywood” while he managed to smack around and knock up his colleagues.
Ramon Novarro – Classic Hollywood
February 20, 2018 15:00 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBJose Ramon Gil Samaniego, better known as Ramon Novarro, was a Mexican actor who graced the stage, movie theater, and tv sets with his presence. He started out in silent film in 1917 and grew up to become 1920’s Jake Gyllenhaal.
Spencer Tracy Part 2– Classic Hollywood
February 13, 2018 15:00 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBWe left off last week with Spency finally getting recognition in Hollywood while he was boozing it up and shacking up with a grip of women who weren’t his wife...
Spencer Tracy Part 1 – Classic Hollywood
February 06, 2018 15:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBHe was versatile and effortlessly talented. Tracy was nominated for nine academy awards out of the 75 he appeared in and was the winner of two for best actor. He was also a raging alcoholic, womanizer, pissy little hot head obsessed with death.
Errol Flynn – Classic Hollywood
January 30, 2018 15:00 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBErrol Flynn is known best for his romantic, adventurous, ruffian type roles in his films. What he’s less well known for is being a skeevy creep who could have given Weinstein a run for his money.
Greta Garbo Part 3 – Classic Hollywood
January 23, 2018 15:00 - 18 minutes - 25.6 MBLast week, we found out that while Greta Garbo never married, she was in plenty of relationships. This biographer Barry Paris wrote this book called, “Garbo” and he’s like, “Ok, there is so much gay shit about this woman. I’m pretty sure she dated Lilyan Tashman who was this super sexy blond, Ziegfeld girl and Greta could just not hang. "
Greta Garbo Part 2 – Classic Hollywood
January 16, 2018 15:00 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MBLast week we learned about Greta Garbo’s lightning fast rise to fame. She was a huge, profitable star, and had just been wooed back into a contract with MGM when they allowed her to portray King Cristina on screen. After that, things started getting tough.
Greta Garbo Part 1 – Classic Hollywood
January 09, 2018 15:00 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBGreta Garbo wasn’t a name that was unfamiliar to me. I’ve been passionate about film and entertainment my entire life so I naturally knew about the famed ice queen who made the rare, successful transition from silent film to talkies.
Scotty Bowers – Classic Hollywood
January 02, 2018 15:00 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MBWe're kicking off the second season of the Dirty Bits with Scotty Bowers, the guy who got it on with everyone in Hollywood (ladies and gents) for almost 4 decades while playing matchmaker/pimp to the stars.
Season Two – An Introduction From Tawny
November 21, 2017 15:00 - 3 minutes - 4.66 MBHollywood has been rocked by horrific sex scandals in the last few years. Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and possibly others reminded everyone how the culture of Hollywood protects predators and erases truths. Things like Statutory rape, studio pressured abortions, murder, and other heinous acts are part of some of these long dead stars stories. This cannot go unmentioned, but it isn’t the focus of our podcast.