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Its like trying to do a joke about airplane food.
She started with her moving 2016 comedy special45 Jokes About My Dead Dad.
But even with as much ground as she covered in that hour, she wasnt done there.
Today marks the release of Kilmartins new bookDead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed.
The result is a hilarious, revealing, and unconventionally practical walk through loss and grief.
Im glad we had time to chat.
I know youre super busy.
What does your daily routine look like?
Monday through ThursdayConanis 9:30 to 6:30-7.
Friday its 10 to 5.
The podcast (The Jackie and Laurie Show) we sneak in at odd hours.
Sometimes we do it really late, like 11 at night after spots, or on the weekends.
It helps my brain from freaking out with, Oh, I havent done stand up in three days.
My career is over.
My agreement with my fetus when I was pregnant with it was that it would always take the hit.
How old is he now?
What an exciting age for a boy and also that boys mother.
I feel like I have one more year of calm and then its finding goo on the shower tiles.
Im trying to enjoy this last year.
Oh my God, I swear that never occurred to me.
Its like trying to do a joke about airplane food.
Everything in my book is something that happened or is an offshoot of something that happened.
It was a tough topic to think, Has anyone done this?
You definitely put so much of yourself in it.
Wetalked just a little over a year agowhen your special45 Jokes About My Dead Dadcame out.
You cant go back and touch the tree he planted or youll be shot on their front lawn.
You get into a whole other aspect of death that I found intriguing.
One of those ways that works is with sex.
I found those oddly comforting.
We humans are selfish things.
When youre at someones bedside you cant have that same devotion 24 hours a day.
And it wasnt that long no offense to my then-boyfriend.
We dont really know anything about the afterlife, which I think is where you got the title.
Dead people suck because they dont come back and let us know whats going on, right?
Was there a therapeutic aspect to you putting this book together?
I wanted to be able to remember it.
I didnt want it to be a blur.
I had tons of notes to go from.
It was slightly therapeutic, and I feel like, Wow, Im really done with it now.
Im looking forward to not using my dads death as a source of potential material for anything.
Kilmartins book isnow available at Amazon.
