Mike Birbiglia
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192 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 18 Jun
Mike Birbiglia’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, it's weird. I did not mean to have a lane, but it ended up being that.
wait so after this were you like hey i stay on first floor only yeah for a long time probably right for a long time like my agent mike berkowitz would call and just be like mike is staying on the first floor and it was a secret like we weren't telling people because i didn't want people to think i was insane yeah of course and they'd be like why and he'd be like that's what mike berkley wants you know that's his writer yeah yeah that's hilarious
Yeah. Really? Yeah. But then at one point, an engineer explained to me that if you're staying in a good hotel, the glass, you literally couldn't jump through it. Yeah. Like, if you're staying at, like, a Westin or something, like, you couldn't jump through the window of the 10th floor. Like, that's, like, essentially it's the equivalent of, like, jumping into the wall. Right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
That's a different level of glass.
Yeah. But it's funny because you and I haven't crossed paths that much, but for years we have, because you tell stories too, like, we have a lot of people who are, like, I love Sakura. I love Birbiglia.
No, totally. And to me, it was. Because I grew up outside of Worcester, Massachusetts. I never went to Broadway.
I think maybe. Yeah.
Some of them, I think, are not. Yeah. But like, Patti LuPone came to Old Man and the Pool. And like, Nathan Lane presented my first show. So there's the people, a lot of the people I respect are really sweet.
So Nathan Lane had... And that's really, in some ways, why I had legitimacy in the theater world is Nathan Lane had a few of my comedy albums, like Two Drink Mike and I think my Secret Public Journal Live.
And he really liked this one story I tell from Secret Public Journal Live where I was in a, this is a true story, years ago I was in a celebrity golf tournament and I was paired up with this, for charity, and I was paired up with these two guys and my brother Joe, and these guys said to me, they go, who do you think our celebrity's gonna be? And I was like, oh, no, I think it might be me.
And then I'm apologizing to the guys. I'm so sorry. I'm your celebrity. If you think this is disappointing for you, you can't imagine how disappointing it is for me. And that was this painful hell gig story that Nathan really liked. And then he came to my show at Caroline's. And I was actually doing all the sleepwalking stuff.
and he was on broadway at the time he was in the david mamet play called november it was like 2007 2008 and he like loved the show he loved the sleepwalking show and he sent he like literally like sent me a note hey i love the show i was so nervous because i knew he was in the audience they told me at caroline's he's in the audience oh why do they tell you i know i shouldn't tell me
So I was so nervous. And then he didn't come back because he's shy in real life. And then I wrote him a note back. And then we had dinner. And then we became friends. And I said, would you ever consider presenting this show? I have this show called Sleepwalk with me. And he was like, sure. Like, and, and then he didn't, he ran for eight months off Broadway.
And so that was like, and so then like two shows later. So then there was a lot of talk at that point of like, maybe this show could go to Broadway and it didn't. And then I had another show called my girlfriend's boyfriend is off Broadway. That's on, I know it's not on Netflix, but it was for a while. And then, and, and they were like, maybe this could go to Broadway. It didn't.
But then the, I think it was, yeah, the new one. And then the old man in the pool ended up making it there. That's pretty amazing. It's weird. Yeah, it's amazing.
No, no, I know.
Yeah. No, and I think that's part of what hooked me into doing theaters at all was people listen.
Because I started out working the door at the Washington, D.C. Improv when I was in college in the late 90s. Yeah, it's the best. And I was like, oh, okay, like... Like, I could work clubs, and then I started working, like, funny bones and improvs out of school, and I was, like, opening for a ton of people. And then I opened for the first Comedy Central live tour.
I did, like, five or six of the dates. It was Mitch Hedberg, Louis Black, and Dave Attell. Yeah. Crazy.
Unbelievable lineup. And I did Philadelphia. I did D.C. I did New York City. Yeah. And I called, and I was like, people listen. People are listening to the jokes because they're not really drinking that much. They're seated. They're looking at you as opposed to looking away from you. So crazy. Watching the show like this? Yeah, yeah. And I literally call my agent.
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