This, of course, is your weekly program documenting everyday life in these United States through whatever means and tactics seem necessary.
Well, from WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life, distributed by Public Radio International. And in this case, there is just no time, right? Sometimes you get the feeling when you hear these recordings that she's talking about these things for the very first time with anybody. There's this saying that comedy equals tragedy plus time, which isn't always true but is mostly true. Her feelings are right there on the surface. During the same weeks that some of the most horrible things that can happen to a person were happening to her, there's something about these recordings which is just very remarkable. After the worst of all these times was over, she turned some of these stories into a one-woman show, which became a book and a movie.īut there's something about these original recordings that she made. When Julia Sweeney's brother got cancer, and then she got cancer, she decided she wanted to talk about it with strangers from a stage in a comedy club. OK, here's something that most of us would never, ever do.
