Mike Birbiglia
speaker
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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I go like, dude, you gotta book me in theaters. And he was like, you don't have enough fans to fill a theater. And I was like, smaller theaters. You know what I mean? So like I, for a bunch of years there from like 2006 through 12, I was playing like 500 to like 900 seat theaters.
It was great. Yeah. And so that was like, yeah. Those are still really fun sizes. They're great.
Yeah. So that was like, yeah, that was a great part.
The business we work in is insane. So crazy.
I've done that one, yeah.
That was a wild card. I'm hoping for Angel Salazar there.
Check it out, Cleveland! I'm hoping for that millionth time! Check it out, check it out!
He kills. And his credit is still Scarface.
Shut that up. Oh, my God. Angel Salazar.
Nice guy. Yeah. And also, he kills. He kills. But it's so hard to explain to people sometimes that the business that we work in of comedy is so low class.
I was at the Comedy Cellar the other night. We're all trading stories at the table about when we worked for mobsters. You took a gun out when you're settling with them. And everyone had a different story of a different guy. And people think we're making this...
stuff up and it's like no no the fucking manager puts a gun on the table is like how much do I owe you like $400 he's like I think it's $300 you know and puts a fucking gun on the table these are real people yeah yeah yeah some of them are dead thankfully yeah some of them die it's good when they die yeah
Oh, that's interesting.
But I'm sure he had one. And you need a coat? Did you say no on the coat?
Yeah.
what do you what and donna just goes he's right and he goes all right he just changed the chat i was like dude dude i was just trying to i had a gig once i won't say where it was where but i can guess i get to the settlement and i'm like oh my god it's gonna be like three thousand dollars it's gonna be so much money i like packed this place and the booker just starts crying
I swear to God, I've never told this story, starts crying. And I was like, are you okay? She goes, we just don't have the money. I was like, how much money do you have? She was like, we have this much money. I go, that's fine, whatever. And then I just was like, okay, I'm not going back, but.
Yeah, yeah.
And we deal with it as comedians because we're so desperate. Yeah.
Yeah, when you're starting out, you just take anything.
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