Anxiety Club Movie (2024)

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Anxiety Club Movie (2024) Trailer - Plot Synopsis: Anxiety Club offers an insightful, heartfelt and humorous exploration of anxiety through the lens of some of today’s most brilliant comedians: Tiffany Jenkins, Marc Maron, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Joe List, Eva Victor and Baron Vaughn. With a mix of stand-up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life experiences, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition.  The film follows Tiffany Jenkins - a comic and author with millions of social media followers - through her private therapy sessions, where she confronts her deepest fears with grit and self-deprecating humor. Additionally, world-renowned meditation teacher and author Tara Brach, PhD, guides comedian Joe List through an intense and transformative meditation experience. Viewers will also discover why Hollywood's Laugh Factory took the groundbreaking step of hiring a psychologist-in-residence to support its comics.  Join these comedians as they reveal how vulnerability and humor can co-exist, turning their mental health battles into powerful narratives that will resonate with audiences everywhere. And, have some laughs along the way.  Credits: Wendy Lobel - Director  Tiffany Jenkins - Comedian Joe List - Comedian Marc Maron - Comedian Aparna Nancherla - Comedia Mark Normand - Comedian Baron Vaughn - Comedian Eva Victor - Comedian

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00:00Hey, hey! Comedy!

00:03Good to be here. I love a roof gig.

00:05If this goes horribly, I can just jump right off.

00:08Human beings have up to 70,000 thoughts a day.

00:11I feel like I have four thoughts a day, 70,000 times.

00:14My four thoughts are, my parent's gonna die, I'm horny, is that cancer, is this funny?

00:18Other professions, mental health may not have been a big topic,

00:22but comedy has always destigmatized things by saying this is okay to talk about.

00:26I've got some bad news.

00:28Okay, literally haven't even said what the bad news is yet.

00:31People reach out to me because they've seen my videos.

00:34It feels like everybody in the world has anxiety and nobody knows what to do about it.

00:39Anxiety is warning you about a danger that isn't actually there.

00:44Most of what you're reacting to is something your brain is making up.

00:49Whole cheese pizza just for me.

00:51I'm literally thinking while eating it, I'm going to get cancer.

00:54But it's very tasty.

00:55This is an anxiety blanket.

00:57This weighs 15 pounds, it feels like a hug.

01:00How sad is that?

01:01Maybe I'm crazy, but I do feel like my brain is lightly trying to kill me.

01:07You know, like a freaking turbine in my brain.

01:10I am scared of getting murdered.

01:12I have a horrendous fear of the ocean.

01:14I think about my kids breaking their neck and getting paralyzed a lot.

01:18Write the statement, maybe my kids will die.

01:20That's excessive.

01:21Just to write that line.

01:23That's extreme.

01:24I know.

01:25I feel like marriage is two people maneuvering around each other's mental illness.

01:30You have anxiety like, what's going to happen in the future?

01:34Oh, exactly.

01:35Like I come up like, what if I never find my passion?

01:37I'm scared that this person's going to be right.

01:39I'm scared that I'm a failure.

01:40I'm just tired of being scared.

01:41It's exhausting.

01:42Yes.

01:43My anxiety stopped me from having children.

01:48Everything you're dealing with is really the uncertainty, the what if.

01:51Everything you're afraid to do, you're going to do.

01:53Challenging, but manageable.

01:54Okay.

01:55I guess there's a lot of pain there, fear and anger.

01:58I think it's a desire for the feeling of peace for myself and for people I love.

02:03The hardest thing in the world is to be with the feelings we don't want to be with.

02:11Having a conversation one on one, this is nothing to me.

02:14Not nothing to me, but nothing anxious.

02:18That's what I mean.

02:19Now I'm anxious because I said this is nothing to me.

02:21There it goes, it's all unraveling now.

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