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
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You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
good
Shooting a movie isn't good for a sleep disorder.
life
Nobody knows the life of the working comic.
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One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.
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One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.
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I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.
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I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.
I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C.
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My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.
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Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.