Ep. 40 - Being An Alcoholic Ft. Mary Santora

"Fine, I'll go out for just one..."

Before you know it, the sun is coming up and a buddy shoves a mirror in your face complete with a fat line of coke with your name on it. Or you've gone through three cases this week, and it's not even Friday. Alcohol is a helluva drug, and millions of people suffer from addiction, so to say alcoholism is funny feels like the slap in the face you got at the bar from the girl you were trying to take home while you were blacked out.

But it is, and Mary Santora is proof of that. Sometimes, you've got to be able to laugh about the thing that's destroying your life, and sharing that laugh may be able to help someone else. Mary joins us in this episode to prove that you can laugh at being an alcoholic. 

We also talk about:

-How Mary got her start in comedy.

-The addictiveness of performing stand-up.

-When Mary came to terms with her alcoholism.

-David's tool for avoiding drinking too much: his evil, drunk alter ego, City Dave.

-Mary's bit on her sober quarantine experience.

-How she relates her sobriety from the stage to a room full of people drinking.

-The parallels of alcohol dependency and the dependency of being a kid.

-Those fateful last words, "I'll just have one..."

-Having an addictive personality.

-How David replaced cocaine with comedy.

-Mary's sage advice for less experienced comedians.

-Being drunk onstage.

-Writing drunk.

-Alcohol being the REAL gateway drug.

-The intervention that never was.

-Mitch Hedberg's joke about alcoholism.

-The classification of alcoholism as a disease and our misunderstanding of many mental disorders.

-Mary's surprising comedic influences.

-Comedians who've gotten sober and seen their success skyrocket.

-The importance of starting from a place of honesty, both when performing comedy AND getting sober.

-And more!

Produced by Golden Ox Studio | Music: Producedbyzip