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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Yeah. Yeah, the WWE guys in Pittsburgh. That was a big thing. And they were funny.
Some of them are funny. Bob and Tom was big. Move tickets.
Yes. Yes, they were good.
Preston and Steve's great in Philly. That's still great.
Yeah, some of them are great.
They were fun to do. Shredding Regan in Buffalo, and they were funny. They were fun.
The funny thing about... I started in D.C. at a club at the door and... The funny thing when you're starting out is there's a lot of hacks. Like who are the opening acts? And I was an opening act, but like the other comics, and they're crushing. The hacks are basically doing like 10 people's act. Or a mashup of a bunch of people's jokes. And local references too. And I was so young.
I was like 22 years old. I didn't know what it meant to be a hack. I was writing my own jokes, performing the jokes. And like I would open for people and they would go, you're gonna go far in this business. Like I would open for, I remember opening for this guy, he goes, in like West Virginia, he was like, you're gonna go far. I go, why? He goes, you write your jokes. I go, doesn't everybody?
He goes, nah. And then I would, people in DC, I'm not gonna name names, but there would be people who crush, crush at the club. And I'm like, they're gonna be huge. And then like Dave Chappelle would come a week later and I'd be like, oh, he's doing his act. Or like a week, yeah, a week after Dave Chappelle comes, like there's three comics doing his jokes locally. That's nuts. That's wild.
It was wild, like I didn't even understand it.
Oh, my God. They're just, yeah, they're staring at you.
No!
Well, you and I have this thing in common. You and I have this thing in common. I was watching that great clip of your mom watching your TV show. Oh, yeah. Your Netflix series is super funny. You and I have this thing in common, which is like, that's my dad with my comedy. Yeah. Like, my dad just doesn't get it. You know, he'll just be like... maybe stay away from the personal stuff.
I'm like, that's sort of what we're doing here. And when I started out working the door at the improv when I was in college, my dad was so furious. He goes, you're working at a comedy club? My dad would fly off the handle. And I go, yeah. He goes, what do they do, strip? I'm like, no, they perform comedy. He's like, well, that's not your priority. He would go nuts.
And so for years, you know, when I did the Broadway show, my first Broadway show, that was the first time where my dad was like, oh, okay. Like, this is a pretty, you're on the fucking marquee. Yeah. It's crazy. But it is weird, like, when your parents, I actually think it's kind of good when your parents don't really get what you do. A thousand percent. Yeah. It's kind of great.
Like, it's kind of refreshing to see your mom be like, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. Hates it.
My dad had that at one point. He brought, my dad was a doctor. My joke in the special, I go, my dad was a doctor when I was a kid. He got his law degree and I go, that's how much he didn't want to be a dad. He was like, what can I do in these slots of time when I would be parenting? But like, One time he brought a bunch of nurses from the hospital, and they were kind of wild.
They brought a party bus with a stripper pole, and they were dancing and drunk. They were the worst audience members, but it was oddly kind of satisfying that my dad looked cool at work. Yeah. That was like... Wait, is he really a doctor and a lawyer? He is... Well, he had a stroke, so he's not practicing anymore, although he could, but the poor patients. Yeah, yeah. He's like, what day is it?
They're like, this is really important to me. But no, he got his law degree in his free time when I was a kid. What? He didn't practice law, but he was... Just to entertain himself? He was a super smart guy.
My mom's great. My mom is honestly super religious. I talk a lot in the special about how I got... I met the Pope last year, and that was a big, big deal. Were you one of the comics? There's a bunch of comics.
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