SOURCE MATERIAL: Gary Gulman on success, depression, and state abbreviations

An extended Q&A from 2017 for a Boston Globe piece

Since Gary Gulman is in town with his new show Grandiloquent, which I interviewed him about for a piece in the Boston Globe this weekend, I thought I would go back to a conversation I had with him at a pivotal time in his career, in 2017. He was fresh off of the success of his 2016 appearance on Conan, where he did a single-topic six-minute monologue on the creation of state abbreviations that has become his calling card. And he was developing his breakthrough HBO special, The Great Depresh, which would air in 2019. This is roughly half of the Q&A, and I may release the other half in the near future. We covered a lot of ground, and only a portion of it would fit in the resulting Globe article. So here’s an extended look at the somewhat raw Q&A.