Tawny’s Traumedy List

“If you can’t laugh at the pain, what can you do with it?” You can’t let it make you bitter, but you can let it make you better.” -Roscoe Burnems

Tawny’s Traumedy Recommendations: My Favorite Comedies Involving Tragedy 

Help me add to the list!

Comment below and let me know what comedy/drama movies, shows, podcasts, comedians, Instagrammers, and TikTokers I missed.

Movies

1. Silver Linings Playbook – The movie about the “crazy slut with the dead husband.”
2. Coco – Pixar once again delivers on both the emotional terrorism and comedy front. 
3. Moonlight Mile – All of the weirdness and inevitable laughter that surround tragic loss.
4. Hamilton – Phillipa Soo gives an incredibly accurate portrayal of grief and loss in this musical with plenty of comedic moments. 

TV & Series

1. Dead To Me – Christina Applegate is a suburban widow who headbangs to screamo in her car and curses loudly, further reminding us there’s no wrong way to grieve. 
2. Jane The Virgin – MILD SPOILERS – The representation of young widows and the laughable absurdity that comes along with trying to navigate a new life is spot on. It’s a telenovela so it’s silly, sweet, sad, and super self-aware. I watched this season right after my husband passed away. 

Podcasts

1. Terrible, Thanks For Asking
2. Griefcast
3. Good Grief

Comedians

1. Patton Oswalt –  On how grieving in public is therapeutic 
2. JC Coccoli – A Comedian In Grief
3. Glen Tickle – Good Grief 
4. Kelli Dunham
5. Pete Davidson
6. Laurie Kilmartin – 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad
7. Roscoe Burnems – Traumedy

Instagram

1. The Foul Mouthed Widow
2. Mouthy Michelle – Author of, “Boys, Booze, and Bathroom Floors” & “Vodka Soup for the Widowed Soul”

Tik Tok

1. @glitterandgrief
2. @jessicapelatt