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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 love Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel. Mike Birbiglia

Love Jimmy

My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn. Mike Birbiglia

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood. Mike Birbiglia

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I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me. Mike Birbiglia

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Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person. Mike Birbiglia

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Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing. Mike Birbiglia

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I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy. Mike Birbiglia

Comedy Try Attack Most Always Issues Honest

I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far away from themselves, because they're metaphorical. It creates more opportunities, I think. Mike Birbiglia

I love Broadway shows. Mike Birbiglia

Love Broadway Broadway Shows Shows

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else. Mike Birbiglia

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It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.' Mike Birbiglia

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I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined. Mike Birbiglia

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As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need to be liked, and then when you divert from that and take a chance at doing something that has moments of fierce unlikeability, you can hit some real low points. Mike Birbiglia

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I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show. Mike Birbiglia

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Sometimes my fans are too nice. Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes Fans Nice Too

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them. Mike Birbiglia

I always live tweet 'SNL.' Mike Birbiglia

Live Always SNL Tweet

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans. Mike Birbiglia

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In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness. Mike Birbiglia

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Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie. Mike Birbiglia

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The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short. Mike Birbiglia

Brain Very Diseases List Short Fun

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide! Mike Birbiglia

Comedy Divide Unites

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is. Mike Birbiglia

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