Welcome to Dying Laughing, the grief survival podcast hosted by stand-up comedian Jessimae Peluso that knows you’ve cried in a Marshalls fitting room and called it healing.
A comedy podcast about grief, loss, and the weird, wild, sometimes hilarious moments that come with being a human with feelings.
Whether you’re mourning your mom, your cat, or your dignity after crying in front of the kumquats at a Trader Joe’s, this show is here to make you laugh, feel less alone, and maybe rethink your funeral playlist.
Jessimae Peluso: Jessimae Peluso, Stand Up Comedian, Podcast and TV Host, is most known from MTV’s wildly popular show, Girl Code and also as the host of Netflix’s popular show, Tattoo Redo. Peluso is also an advocate for Alzheimer’s Disease who raises awareness and charity for Alzheimer’s and brain health through her multiple platforms.
Jessimae was recently made an official ambassador for Seth Rogen and Laura Rogen’s Alzheimer’s foundation, Hilarity for Charity. She also is an ambassador for the SoCal chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Jessimae can be heard weekly hosting her mental health podcast Sharp Tongue on Apple and Spotify. Peluso has toured with the USO, bringing her high energy, relatable, and electric comedy show to our troops stationed in Japan, Norway, Poland, Iraq, Bahrain, and Afghanistan. Her new show Surviving Paradise airs on Netflix October 20th.
Jessimae has contributed to Cosmopolitan Magazine, Self Magazine, GQ.Com, Playboy.com, MadeMen.com, High Times Magazine, DOPE Magazine, featured in Forbes Magazine, and was highlighted in the Huffington Post as “one of the funniest comics to follow on Twitter.”
She performed in the Just For Laughs Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Boston Comedy Festival, and Austin’s MoonTower Festival. Jessimae Peluso made multiple appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience, David Spade’s “Lights Out”, “The Church of What’s Happening Now” with Joey Diaz, TBS’s “Deal With It”, NBC’s “Last Call w/Carson Daly”, E!’s “Chelsea Lately”, FOX’s “World’s Funniest Fails”, VH1’s “Hip Hop Squares”, and Comedy Central’s late but great “@Midnight”, go see her live!
This week, Jessimae asks the big, awkward question: Are you grieving wrong?
She breaks down the weird, brutal, and beautiful parts of loss from how grief shows up differently for everyone and why there’s truly no “right” way to do it.
Peluso explores the clinical diagnosis of “prolonged grief” according to the DSM-5, reflects on how long Italians actually grieve (spoiler: forever), and introduces her own updated NEW GRIEF RULES for surviving loss without losing your damn mind.
From seeing her mom’s ghost in Italy to rejecting the idea that grief is one-size-fits-all, this episode is a real, funny, and sometimes haunting reminder that however you’re grieving…you’re doing it right. Whether you’ve lost a loved one, a pet, a job, or just your damn mind this is your new grief safe space…with jokes.
Because even grief deserves a punchline.
