This Week In Despair With Peter-john Byrnes

Never has our show's title been more appropriate as on this episode, recorded the day after the Sandy Hook Elementary School gun massacre. Andy Fleming and Emily Lake endure the blast of the angriest opening monologue ever recorded on the show, then help me dissect the arguments that allow these events to happen. And then the episode takes a bizarre and clearly self-medicating detour into Smut Town, as we abandon our contemplation of these horrible events by compulsively telling funny sex jokes. The jokes catch in the throat, and the laughter's on the edge of tears. It's the most Freudian episode so far, and if you want documentary evidence of the therapeutic effect of laugher, this is the one for you.