Her dad died, and she can't stop laughing about it. Other caregivers know why.

Actress and comedian Alyssa Limperis' dad died of brain cancer 10 years ago. But she's still laughing about it.

She laughs to get through the pain. She was 24 at the time, and had pivoted from a life of waitressing and improv in New York City to moving back in with her parents in Massachusetts to care for her father.

"That's maybe my way of handling things that are hard or challenging," Limperis told USA TODAY. "It's always been the language that was familiar to me."

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Limperis said she started performing her "No Bad Days" comedy special about a month after her dad died in 2015. She's been performing it live on and off for 10 years, and the special is available to stream on Peacock. She lives in Los Angeles now, but she performed her comedy special again recently at a fundraiser for a grief and hospice nonprofit near her hometown.