This Is Your Afterlife

Jonathan Euseppi has passed away from cancer. I ramble in the intro about who Jonathan is to me, and I've copied the show notes from Jonathan's This Is Your Afterlife episode below to give you more context. I'm uploading this as a new episode in the feed because it is the extended version of our conversation, previously available only on Patreon. I hope you enjoy it as a brief look at Jonathan's life and work.

Jonathan Euseppi (he/they/she) is a comedian who creates one-person shows that feature stories and heightened theatricality, so we're kindred spirits. Her first show, Grief Is Horny, was about her dad's death and her love of the musical Cats. His second show, about getting cancer and marrying his wife, is called Cancer Is Gorgeous. We spend the majority of the episode talking about Jonathan's TWO times suffering through cancer (he's currently cancer-free!) and the difference between those times. But they also talk about their wedding day, their struggle to come out as nonbinary, and the calm that came after admitting who they are. 

Content warning: suicidal ideation, anxiety, cancer, dementia, Parkinson's, water afterlives, crying just thinking about your wedding vows.

Here is Jonathan Euseppi's Instagram profile: @jeuseppi

You can follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing"

Friend of the show Claire Favret helps me process the process of creating my new one-man show, Here to Make Friends.

Content warning: Free Palestine, creative process, postcoital vs. postpartum, Infinite Jest version, massive amounts of navel gazing, the most powerful Afterhead, future of the podcast, Free Palestine.

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Download the Palestinian Feminist Collective's "All Out for Palestine" Digital Action Toolkit.

Follow Claire @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.

Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.

And check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I'm analyzing TV and movies with writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

What do comedy and magic have in common? What does it take to produce an independent magic and/or comedy show? I talk to my friend, previous TIYA guest, and magician Rebecca Spectre about our recent/upcoming shows, and how we went about both making them and putting them on.

Content warning: DIY producing, comedy vs. magic, you're not Beyonce, "borrowed" tricks, unique venues, Mark James, Max Maven, David Berglas, Gob, the trick that cannot be explained.

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Follow Rebecca on Instagram: @rebeccaspectremagic

And grab tickets to her Halloween magic show at Inclusive Funeral Care WHILE THEY'RE STILL AVAILABLE.

Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.

And check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I'm analyzing TV and movies with writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

What percent odds do you actually believe you will experience the apocalypse in your lifetime? That's a question from my most recent one-man show, Here to Make Friends, so I brought in my pals and collaborators Meaghan Strickland, Bill Stern, and Nick Leveski to help me answer it, in a roundabout way. "Roundabout" because before they answer the question directly, we perform Bracketology, an improvised argument game show we devised back in our days on the improv team KC Redheart.

Follow along as we attempt to determine what makes for the apocalypse-iest apocalypse.

Content warning: actual apocalypse, Here to Make Friends, the humans are changing, monsters, hoisted by our own petard, laziness, magic.

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Check out twitch.tv/caseblackwell for future content from Cigarette Sandwich, Bill's sketch group.

Follow @funnygamesla for upcoming dates for Funny Games, Meaghan's show/open mic at the Elysian Theater in L.A.

And read/subscribe to Continuous Improvement, Nick's weekly newsletter with football "recaps."

Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Instagram and Twitter.

And check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I'm analyzing TV and movies with writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"

This is a podcast in which two comedians, Ariel Elias and Dave Maher, talk about the television program "Survivor." It is not a recap podcast. Each episode, we chose a single moment from the show's 40+ seasons and connected it to comedy, creativity, our personal lives, our relationship to each other, and so many other things. It's a hangout show with "Survivor" as the starting point.

We only recorded five episodes of It's a Fucking Stick, which means now it's a miniseries dedicated to promoting Dave's new one-man show, Here to Make Friends, which both contains a lot of "Survivor" material and requires no previous knowledge of "Survivor" to enjoy.

In Episode 5, the final episode of the miniseries, we talk about Jenna and Heidi stripping for peanut butter, from Season 6, Episode 7, "Girls Gone Wilder".

Get tickets to Here to Make Friends at the Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago from 9/28/23-10/1/23!

Follow Ariel @ariel_comedy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

IAFS' music is made by Mike Malarkey, who you can follow on IG @malarkeymike or listen to on Spotify.

This is a podcast in which two comedians, Ariel Elias and Dave Maher, talk about the television program "Survivor." It is not a recap podcast. Each episode, we chose a single moment from the show's 40+ seasons and connected it to comedy, creativity, our personal lives, our relationship to each other, and so many other things. It's a hangout show with "Survivor" as the starting point.

We only recorded five episodes of It's a Fucking Stick, which means now it's a miniseries dedicated to promoting Dave's new one-man show, Here to Make Friends, which both contains a lot of "Survivor" material and requires no previous knowledge of "Survivor" to enjoy.

In Episode 4, we talk about Dan's bonkers slide puzzle "solution," from Season 30, Episode 7, "The Line Will Be Drawn Tonight".

Get tickets to Here to Make Friends at the Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago from 9/28/23-10/1/23!

Follow Ariel @ariel_comedy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

IAFS' music is made by Mike Malarkey, who you can follow on IG @malarkeymike or listen to on Spotify.

This is a podcast in which two comedians, Ariel Elias and Dave Maher, talk about the television program "Survivor." It is not a recap podcast. Each episode, we chose a single moment from the show's 40+ seasons and connected it to comedy, creativity, our personal lives, our relationship to each other, and so many other things. It's a hangout show with "Survivor" as the starting point.

We only recorded five episodes of It's a Fucking Stick, which means now it's a miniseries dedicated to promoting Dave's new one-man show, Here to Make Friends, which both contains a lot of "Survivor" material and requires no previous knowledge of "Survivor" to enjoy.

In Episode 3, we talk about James' banana etiquette, from Season 20, Episode 6, "Banana Etiquette."

Get tickets to Here to Make Friends at the Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago from 9/28/23-10/1/23!

Follow Ariel @ariel_comedy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

IAFS' music is made by Mike Malarkey, who you can follow on IG @malarkeymike or listen to on Spotify.

This is a podcast in which two comedians, Ariel Elias and Dave Maher, talk about the television program "Survivor." It is not a recap podcast. Each episode, we chose a single moment from the show's 40+ seasons and connected it to comedy, creativity, our personal lives, our relationship to each other, and so many other things. It's a hangout show with "Survivor" as the starting point.

We only recorded five episodes of It's a Fucking Stick, which means now it's a miniseries dedicated to promoting Dave's new one-man show, Here to Make Friends, which both contains a lot of "Survivor" material and requires no previous knowledge of "Survivor" to enjoy.

In Episode 2, we talk about Shane's BlackBerry, from Season 12, Episode 12, "Perilous Scramble."

Get tickets to Here to Make Friends at the Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago from 9/28/23-10/1/23!

Follow Ariel @ariel_comedy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

IAFS' music is made by Mike Malarkey, who you can follow on IG @malarkeymike or listen to on Spotify.

This is a podcast in which two comedians, Ariel Elias and Dave Maher, talk about the television program "Survivor." It is not a recap podcast. Each episode, we chose a single moment from the show's 40+ seasons and connected it to comedy, creativity, our personal lives, our relationship to each other, and so many other things. It's a hangout show with "Survivor" as the starting point.

We only recorded five episodes of It's a Fucking Stick, which means now it's a miniseries dedicated to promoting Dave's new one-man show, Here to Make Friends, which both contains a lot of "Survivor" material and requires no previous knowledge of "Survivor" to enjoy.

In Episode 1, we talk about the podcast's titular moment, from Season 16, Episode 9, "I'm in Such a Hot Pickle!"

Get tickets to Here to Make Friends at the Neo-Futurist Theater in Chicago from 9/28/23-10/1/23!

Follow Ariel @ariel_comedy on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

Follow Dave @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

IAFS' music is made by Mike Malarkey, who you can follow on IG @malarkeymike or listen to on Spotify.

It's September 2023, which means ANYTHING GOES in the lead-up to my third one-man show, Here to Make Friends. In this episode of the podcast, my aftershow co-hosts Meaghan Strickland and Claire Favret join me to present the one-man show that could have been: How to Use the Sidewalk Properly.

Sidewalk Commandments

1. You must be willing to shift down to a single file line whenever someone is approaching.
2. If you have odd numbers, take an Uber, or walk at your own risk.
3. If you notice someone coming, you are the alpha in your group.
4. If in a group, merge right to pass someone, and see diagram for oscillating unmerge directions [no diagram given].
5. Going on the grass is a worst case scenario.
6. Stop and Allow: If you are walking in a way that requires you to stop at different points, you must stop and allow yourself to be overtaken.
7. If two couples approach each other both holding hands, they must shout the number of years they have been together at one another, and the couple with the longest tenure may continue holding hands, while the other couple must go single file to pass. Years are the unit of measurement, and in the event of a couple being in a relationship under a year, they must cross their hands over their chests and go single file. This still applies if both couples have been together under a year.
8. Thou shalt not huff.
9. Keep right, pass on the left.
10. When passing a person carrying bags, turn sideways toward them. And when they pass you, do the same, as if you are opening an imaginary door for them.
11. When passing or being passed by a stroller or wheelchair… squish a little.
12. Constant left turning is your right to avoid someone in sight. Good luck, bitch.

Sidewalk Beatitudes

1. Blessed are the complimentary to dogs, for they will inherit freshly paved paths.
2. Favored are those who keep their heads on swivels, for they will be written in the Lord’s book.
3. Blessed are the polyamorous, for they have transcended sidewalks.
4. Blessed are the burden bearers, for they will be at the front of the line when we all know thirst.
5. Blessed are the slow walkers, for they are really taking it all in. Amen.

Patreon supporters make This Is Your Afterlife possible and get awesome bonus episodes, like this. Become an Afterhead at patreon.com/davemaher.

Follow Meaghan on Twitter at @MeaghanStrick and Instagram at @stricklygram.

Follow Claire at @clairefavs on Twitter and Instagram.

Follow me @thisisdavemaher on Twitter and Instagram.

And check out my other podcast, Genre Reveal Party!, where I'm analyzing TV and movies with writer and cultural critic Madeline Lane-McKinley.

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Music = Future: "Use Me" / James Blackshaw: "The Cloud of Unknowing" / Johnnie Frierson: "Miracles"