A community driven by creativity, collaboration, conscious content and compassionate conversation. Always anti snark, pro smiles. Come hang.
Serial Optimist, through our words and interviews, hopes to make you think, smile, feel moved and get lost in original beauty. SO interviews the best comedians in the world: Marc Maron, Chelsea Peretti, T.J. Miller, Rob Cordrry, Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, Jen Kirkman, Casey Wilson, Megan Amram, Kelly Oxford I could go on and on! It's the written word, the strawberry jam, french toast on a Sunday mor
ning, the light turning green, a smile from a stranger, a great first kiss. Come hang, dig in, stay awhile. www.serialoptimist.com
Searching for information on antidepressants is a dreadful journey through pop-up ads and questionable self-help blog posts. Self-help piece this is not. This is antidepressants explained well enou…
New Thank You Note. To two of my favorite comedians. Natasha Leggero & Moshe Kasher. ❤️❤️
Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher have both impacted my life in the coolest ways at separate times. I’m putting these Thank You Letters together in hopes that the algorithms that run the content of …
Paul Scheer is one of the best. An all-time person. His kindness outweighs his hilarity, which is saying a lot, as he’s one of the funniest guys out there. This past year, I’ve only published…
Brooks Wheelan wrote the best short film of the year. 'The Attempt' is funny, heartfelt, beautiful, and deeply relatable. So good and a must watch.
The Attempt, the new short film by Brooks Wheelan, is one of the best things I’ve watched this year. It’s funny, honest, thoughtful, beautifully shot and deeply relatable. Every so often something …
Interviewing Samantha Irby made me laugh hard and cry hard. I'm forever proud to have this conversation on Serial Optimist and I think it's meaningful and beautiful just as she is. SO proud of this piece, so proud to know Samantha. 100% a MUST MUST READ.
Samantha Irby cannot be defined. She cannot be summed up in a few sentences. She’s a gifted writer of wit and honesty. She’s a blogger. A New York Times bestselling author. An essayist. Novelist. T…
Read about an amazing woman. Then support this amazing woman.
Spring of 2012 I was home visiting family and also on a deadline for HelloGiggles. I was hoping the deadline would work as a nice distraction from too much family time, but it did the total opposit…
A real dream come true getting to interview one of my favorite authors, Christopher Moore. I talk to the New York Times bestselling writer about his new novel, “Noir,” mental health, happiness, aliens, process, life, and of course, smiles. Enjoy!
Christopher Moore has been a big influence in my life. We all have a handful of authors that we keep in our hearts as they have provided escape, solace, joy, hope, direction, smiles, and tears thro…
Beautiful interview with one of my favorite comedians Will Weldon, by one of my favorite comedians Jimmy Callaway. Life, comedy, mental health, smiles. Check it!
I don’t remember where I first saw Will Weldon, but I do remember meeting him for the first time and thinking how remarkable it was that such a sweet young man could be so absolutely brutal onstage…
Searching for information on antidepressants is a mess. Asking your doctor for the help can be so hard. This isn’t something that should be messy or hard. Let’s make it simple and pretty.
Searching for information on antidepressants is a dreadful journey through pop-up ads and questionable self-help blog posts. Self-help piece this is not. This is antidepressants explained well enou…
“Trailed Off…” is a new photography series from myself, David Dean. Over the past few years, I’ve been exploring every corner, peak, hidden gem, hike, waterfall, range, and …
Marc Maron is the best interviewer of my lifetime. Through all mediums. I grew up in love with David Letterman, I still am. He was always the bar for me. There are amazing writers, journalists, ent…
Life sometimes gives out pure moments of happiness. Moments that stay with you for weeks and fill your mind, body, and soul with joy each time you think of them. Most of these are personal, things …
Certain Instagram accounts are pure smiles. If you’re like me, your feed is filled with cats befriending goats, dogs befriending goats, and goats. (I like goats.) Living in Colorado has opene…
Aparna Nancherla is one of the biggest names in comedy. Her career is, as they say, booming. She’s been at the top of my list of favorite comedians for years now. In early 2013 I learned of Aparna …
The Rob Riggle phone interview was in an hour. I was pacing around my apartment having an anxiety attack. It was the summer of 2011 and I had just started taking medication for depression. Trying t…
Really enjoyed chatting with one of my favorite comedians, Adam Cayton-Holland. We discuss his new album, "Adam Cayton-Holland Performs His Greatest Bits," dogs, Denver, and a little life. Smiles await. Enjoy!
Comedian Adam Cayton-Holland is a straight up smile provider. It doesn’t matter who he is sharing the stage with, or how big the stage might be, he always steps up and hits jokes all over the field…
Thank you, Stephanie Wittels Wachs.
Thank you, Harris Wittels.
Please read Stephanie's beautiful, brutal, honest, funny, heartbreaking book: "Everything Is Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, He**in, Love and Loss"
It was right before Thanksgiving in 2014. While driving back to Oklahoma, I was listening to Pete Holmes podcast You Made It Weird. It’s a podcast I rarely miss to this day, but on that day, I was …
Brooks Wheelan could be described many ways. I could tell you about Brooks the comedian, who you know from “Saturday Night Live,” “Conan,” his Comedy Central “Half Hour Special” or his cr…
In 2010, a month after introducing Serial Optimist to the world, I sent an email. Jen Kirkman was and still is one of my favorite comedians. She was always my favorite regular on the “Chelsea Latel…
In January of 2010, I started a Tumblr called Serial Optimist. It was your typical flare of Ron Swanson GIFs and weird art. Hip tracks that were Aziz Ansari approved. Basically every other Tumblr t…
15/02/2018
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Super sweetheart comedian Jimmy Callaway interviewed another sweetheart comedian Dallas S. McLaughlin about his new album "An Evening Of This!" and other fun stuff. Read it and smile!
The concept of burying an act, of abandoning the jokes that you worked so hard on, is relatively new in stand-up. The first I ever heard of such a thing was Seinfeld’s I’m Telling You for the Last …
If you love the outdoors AND comedy AND photography then you will love this lovely interview with Serial Optimist favorite and all around good person Brooks Wheelan. You know him from SNL, Comedy Central, Girls and just great stand up. Read it for beauty AND smiles, you deserve it!
Brooks Wheelan could be described many ways. I could tell you about Brooks the comedian, who you know from “Saturday Night Live,” “Conan,” his Comedy Central “Half Hour Special” or his cr…
Get involved with Everytown for Gun Safety NOW. Read to see how easy it is to call your Representatives. To organize. To do whatever we can to REJECT gun violence. Stand up. Stand strong. Stand proud.
I don’t have the words to express my thoughts on combating gun violence. Better minds and better organizations are here for that. The sadness we have all felt now, multiple times, for years, …
These comedians rule. They are smile-creators and activists that stand up each day for what's right. Featuring Aparna Nancherla Sarah Silverman Travon Free Chelsea Handler Giulia Rozzi Jimmy Kimmel Amy Schumer Kumail Nanjiani.
Comedians help us through dark times and bring laughs when it seems like a smile is hard to come by. Comedy itself can act as an escape for us all, from the unhinged madness that is our country&nbs…
A SO favorite, artist Aaron Frisby is back with new work that captures moments in beautiful ways.
A longtime Serial Optimist favorite, artist Aaron Frisby has been exploring an interesting arena that is filled with beauty in moments. Over his career as a mixed media artist, Frisby has play…
Fall is the tops. Nature is everything. Words rule. Photos are alive. Autumn in Colorado forever.
Nature is everything. It’s therapy. It’s life. It’s spiritual. It’s silent. It’s serene. It’s the best medicine for the sadness we all face each day –…
The drive up was pitch black with aggressive winds. I was an hour from home, accenting Mount Evans at two in the morning. This is a tricky drive filled with hairpins that take you from six thousand…
24/09/2017
A big thanks to all the real photographers - the professional creatives behind the lens. Your shots inspire me to get outside and chase what you've captured, to hike farther than I thought possible, to endlessly explore, to forever wander, and to see life with eyes more open. My photos are an expression of my adventures - a photo journal - taken with a phone. "We are all photographers," I suppose, but today thank a photographer who makes a living doing so, who has put in the constant grind for years, who are the eyes behind the shots that spark the creativity and inner photographer in us all.
Beautiful photos of mixed with Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes. What more do you need?
Nature has been everything to me. The mountains are always calling. We all should go chasing waterfalls. Nature is spiritual. It is medicine for the mind. Since moving back to Colorado over a year …
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The Growth Of SO
Serial Optimist was founded January 1st, 2010, with one goal: to be on the cutting edge of happiness. For five years we did this through interviews with the best comedians, artists, writers and musicians. Our content was focused on all things comedy, art, and pop culture. Always anti-snark, pro smiles.
Over the last few years SO has been lightly tended to, some great interviews and features for sure, but really just this beautiful tree blowing in the wind. During this time I’ve focused on working out how SO can have a stronger impact, and not only provide smiles, but provide a community for the things we care so deeply about: mental health, animals, environment.
I believe this can be accomplished by proving thoughtful and creative content that will engage people on multiple levels. SO will continue to provide the best conversations, with a focus on mental health. We will provide content that is focused on helping us all become better activists, better at bringing mental health talk to the mainstream, better at just trying to be better.
We do this through collaboration with like-minded companies. By working with and supporting non-profit organizations. By being active in our community and hopefully, getting you jazzed to be active in yours.
Trying to make the world just a tiny bit better each day might sound cliche, but I hope it’s a cliche we all still strive towards. If SO can make one person smile each day, give one person the strength to decide today is the day they will seek help for depression, make one person believe to really believe in their dreams, make another person decide today is the day they register to vote, that to us, is changing the world. That’s what we hope to do.
Come hang, let’s make kindnesses contagious,
David Dean
Founder, Serial Optimist, LLC
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Who Have We Interviewed?
Amy Schumer, Megan Amram, Aparna Nancherla, Nick Kroll, Rachel Bloom, Marc Maron, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Steven Yeun, Beth Stelling, Lesley Arfin, Robyn Von Swank, Jen Kirkman, Kelly Oxford, Paul F. Tompkins, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, Andy Kindler, T.J. Miller, Natasha Leggero, Jonah Ray, Emily V. Gordon, Garfunkel & Oates, Lavar Burton, Rob Riggle and countless more.