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
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – A Halloween Mini Episode
November 10, 2017 15:00 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBScreamin’ Jay Hawkins isn’t a name many would recognize, but his most famous song, “I Put a Spell on You” is now a Halloween staple in many homes across the U.S. He also may have fathered anywhere between 30 and 75 children.
Genghis Khan - Controversial Characters
October 26, 2017 14:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBGenghis Khan was the founder of the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He practiced meritocracy, was religiously tolerant and unified the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. He’s also notorious for Dothraki like cruelty, is considered by many to be a ruler who was fond of genocide and may be the original ancestor to 0.5% of the entire world population.
Fidel Castro - Controversial Characters
October 17, 2017 14:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBHis first name is derived from the Latin word meaning “faithful” which is pretty ironic when you’re accused of sleeping with 35,000 women over the course of your life.
Mao Zedong - Controversial Characters
October 10, 2017 14:00 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBMao Zedong is easily one of the most controversial figures in history. His physician also released a book that claimed the chairman engaged in many (MANY) scandalous and salacious acts before his passing in 1976.
Taking on the Tudors Part 3 - The Final Chapter
October 03, 2017 14:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBIn the final episode of our mini series "Taking on the Tudors," we explore all the sexy secrets, rumors and intrigue surrounding the perhaps not so virginal Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Taking on the Tudors Part 2 – Things Get Complicated
September 26, 2017 14:00 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBKing Henry V through King Henry VII didn’t seem to have particularly sexy reigns but they were the ancestors of one of history’s most notoriously scandalous and salacious monarchs, Henry VIII.
Taking on the Tudors Part 1 - The Beginning
September 12, 2017 16:56 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBThe Tudors. Most people, including myself, typically associate the family house with Henry the 8th of England, his daughter Elizabeth the I, and her sister, the infamous Bloody Mary.
Albert Einstein
September 05, 2017 14:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBxAs Einstein scholar John Stachel says, “Too much of an idol was made of Einstein. He’s not an idol—he’s a human, and that’s much more interesting." The physicist was quite the cad….guilty of numerous acts of hanky panky with a slew of ladies... including his cousin.
Elagabalus
August 29, 2017 14:00 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBWe’re taking it way back to ancient Rome, where every name is fun to say and much of the history is composed of hearsay, rumors and downright bullshit.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
August 22, 2017 14:00 - 20 minutes - 27.8 MBGenevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. One of the main players behind the Enlightenment in not only France, but all across Europe.But this is the Dirty Bits- so we’re more interested in the fact that he loved being spanked.
James Joyce
August 15, 2017 14:00 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born February 2, 1882. But he went by James Joyce. He’s also responsible for creating some of the smuttiest, porniest, scatalogical and ass fetish-y letters I’ve ever read.
Julie d’Aubigny
August 08, 2017 14:00 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBThe myth, the legend, the subject of plays, memes, and a French TV series. Julie d’Aubigny was basically Arya Stark with a little Miley Cyrus streak and some Ronda Rousey sprinkles on top.
Philippe I Duke of Orleans
August 01, 2017 14:00 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MBHis title was Philippe I, Duke of Orleans but as the younger brother of the king, he was known simply as Monsieur. He also had many, many boyfriends and frequently crossed dressed.
Nikola Tesla
July 25, 2017 14:00 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBOh Tesla. Tesla, Tesla, Tesla. Remembered by Elon Musk and 80’s hairbands, the Serbian American is an interesting topic for the Dirty Bits Podcast. The man was too brilliant for sex with any human on earth and fell in love with a pigeon.
Schrödinger
July 19, 2017 02:00 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBOf course, he’s known for the “Schrodinger’s cat” thought experiment, but what you may not know, is Erwin Schrödinger was totally turned off by his wife and lived openly, raising children, in numerous polyamorous relationships throughout his life.
Colette
July 12, 2017 02:00 - 13 minutes - 18.8 MBThe mononymous Colette, a Nobel Prize winning French novelist, mime, actress, and author of the famous "Gigi" who could have given Mary Kay LeTourneau a run for her money.
The Independence Day Special
July 05, 2017 04:56 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBWe take a closer look at the political scandals from United States history, featuring James Buchanan, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower,William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Richard Mentor Johnson and David I. Walsh.
President Warren G. Harding
June 27, 2017 10:27 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBWarren G. Harding is often considered one of the worst presidents in United States history....and possibly the dirtiest.
Peggy Guggenheim
June 13, 2017 10:21 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MB“My book was all about fucking,” she once said of her memoirs. So they weren't really secrets, which is partially the Schtick of The Dirty Bits Podcast. But that's only if you know who Peggy Guggenheim is in the first place….and since you millennials are too busy eating avocado toast instead of reading books, I'm going to educate you.
Jack Parsons
June 06, 2017 10:18 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBJack Parsons was born in 1914 in Pasadena and was originally named after his father Marvel, until his wife caught him cheating with a prostitute…. and started calling him Jack instead. She also filed for divorce.
Hans Christian Andersen
May 30, 2017 10:13 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBThe creator of “The Little Mermaid” was a big, neurotic, painfully self aware, goofy looking man-child who obsessively tossed off and kept a careful record in his diary each time he did.
Marie Curie
May 23, 2017 10:05 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MBMaria Skłodowska, more commonly known by her French name as Marie Curie, is mostly known for her groundbreaking work in radioactivity and being a fierce bitch on wheels.
Anthony Comstock
April 29, 2017 09:57 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MB"Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States. Europe likes to hear of such things. It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second-rate country-town civilization after all."
John Wilmot
April 29, 2017 09:49 - 16 minutes - 23.3 MBJohn Wilmot, the poster boy for what was called “A rake”, which is short for rakehell, which is a synonym for "hellraiser” It was a term popular in the 1600’s that described a womanizing man with a penchant for debauchery. In other words, John was a libertine.
Catherine the Great
April 13, 2017 09:38 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBCatherine the Great had a string of affairs with handsome young men, was called sexually insatiable, a nymphomaniac and allegedly got it on with a stallion. While many urban legends and conflicting opinions from historians are tied to her name, what's so much fun about Catherine is that they actually stem from some real events.