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Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia
American Comedian
Born: Jun 20, 1978
About Comedy Me People Think You
Related authors: George Carlin Groucho Marx Milton Berle Mitch Hedberg Robin Williams Rodney Dangerfield Steven Wright W. C. Fields
I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset. Mike Birbiglia
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What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray. Mike Birbiglia
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It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back. Mike Birbiglia
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When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate. Mike Birbiglia
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I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week without paying, and they would pay me a nominal amount of money to be there. Mike Birbiglia
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If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress. Mike Birbiglia
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With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical. Mike Birbiglia
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Film is so immersive. Mike Birbiglia
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You have to be delusional to be a comedian. Mike Birbiglia
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I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!' Mike Birbiglia
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When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things. Mike Birbiglia
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How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer. Mike Birbiglia
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The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This isn't what I'm about. I'm much more of a creator and a doer. Mike Birbiglia
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I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying. Mike Birbiglia
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In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs. Mike Birbiglia
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People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal. Mike Birbiglia
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My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big. Mike Birbiglia
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I just don't give off a great first impression. Mike Birbiglia
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Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways. Mike Birbiglia
Together Jokes Ways Personal Us Many Bring
Sometimes I take this women's exercise class called Core Fusion at a place called Exhale. I shouldn't say it's a women's class. There's maybe two men. Mike Birbiglia
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Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't. Mike Birbiglia
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Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back. Mike Birbiglia
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I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical. Mike Birbiglia
Write Autobiographical Show
Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice. Mike Birbiglia
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My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it. Mike Birbiglia
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Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This American Life,' this predates me, but when David Sedaris did it, for example, it would just play, people who heard it heard it, and then the book would come out a year later, and people would be like, 'Ahh, I kind of remember that.' Mike Birbiglia
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