Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbigliais an American comedian, writer, actor, and director...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth20 June 1978
CityShewrsbury, MA
CountryUnited States of America
chance divert fierce hit low moments people
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.
medical school
You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.
concept high life
When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.
conan intern
When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.
characters john studied
What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
comedy desired famous life philip starting
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.
city comedians politics
There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.
album mostly saw school steven
When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should write one-liners.' And I did. My first album is mostly one-liners.
met saw
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.
comedians moved nice
When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.
open sleeping time wear wore
When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.
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Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.
growing jewish people
When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.