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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 love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody. Mike Birbiglia

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First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.' Mike Birbiglia

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I consider Lena Dunham a comedian. Mike Birbiglia

Consider Comedian Lena Dunham

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you're starting out in comedy, it's the audience that tells you what's funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that. Mike Birbiglia

I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.' Mike Birbiglia

Nobody knows the life of the working comic. Mike Birbiglia

Life Nobody Knows Comic Working

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish. Mike Birbiglia

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I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep. Mike Birbiglia

Dreams Take Like Cool Sleep

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. Mike Birbiglia

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My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Mike Birbiglia

War Through Crunch Like Boxes Go Goes Toast Dad Novels

Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you. Mike Birbiglia

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After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other. Mike Birbiglia

Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself. Mike Birbiglia

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Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.' Mike Birbiglia

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When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there. Mike Birbiglia

College Late Late-Night Write Conan Wanted Intern Night

I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C. Mike Birbiglia

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