The Marsh presents Brian Wetzels SIDE BY SIDE: A Journey With Depression April 9, 2008

Side by Side: A Journey With Depression a funny look at serious survival, chronicles comedian Brian Wetzels twenty year struggle with clinical depression and the humor he tapped into in order to survive. Wetzel takes his audience on a unique journey of laughter, painful truth and finally hope.

Brian Wetzel had a typical suburban San Jose, CA upbringing in the 60s and 70s complete with a paper route to make money to buy 8mm Laurel and Hardy movies. As a teenager he was obsessed with the rock band KISS and dreamed of being an entertainer. Through the 1990s he had a successful comedy and public speaking career, touring the Western United States, until depression began haunting every aspect of his professional and personal life. In 2002 Brian ended up at an emergency clinic being interviewed by a psychiatrist with a thick French accent making him feel like hed landed in the middle of an absurd comedy. After years of having depression freeload off him, Brian finally told the depression to Get a job! Since then he and his depression have been touring the United States with his autobiographical one-man show, playing such diverse venues as Stanford University and Napa State Hospital. When Brians not on the road hes an avid fan of classic Hollywood and a cappella harmony.

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