Episode 19: Comedy and Trauma with Allison Gill

Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle topics such as sexual assault and social injustice through a confrontational and hilarious dark humor that manages to make scathing points about humanity and society, while still being objectively hilarious… Especially some people left her shows uncomfortable . A former Navy nuke, Allison cites a sexual assault early in her military life as the catalyst that drove her to uncomfortable subjects later in her work, partially as a means to take control over her trauma. Later, she recognized that in order to let her pain go, she had to let her jokes about her trauma go too. She speaks to us about that, the changing nature of comedy’s role in an increasingly self-scrutinizing society, and how much fun it is to make people feel bad for laughing.

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