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
almost basically exciting experience jokes laugh people religious room special thousand time
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.
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.
comedians moved nice
When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.
favourite lining movies silver
One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.
wandered
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.
metaphor unfair
Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.
comedians hang played
I'm a comedian, and the other comedians are played by comedians, the same way that in 'Once' there are the musicians that hang out together.
rude awakening film
In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized I didn't want it. It was a rude awakening. When it wasn't picked up, I was crushed, but then in retrospect I've made two films and produced three one-man shows since then. It's the luckiest thing that happened in my life.
funny
I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.
funny-relationship math needs
What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
alienation
Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
flashback mostly occurs relationship wince
I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'
conan intern
When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was an intern there.
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.