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 didn't get to hear about it. It was like Chris Rock and Stephen Colbert and Whoopi Goldberg and Gaffigan, Conan. I didn't get a call either, but that's cool.
I feel like they would have flagged some of your content.
I feel like you could hear Rock going, you're the Pope, right? Rock said the funniest thing. We're walking down the hallway, and it's unbelievable. Yeah, there I am. That photo's in my parents' living room.
I said, I held up, okay, so there was a sheet on my seat and it said Birbiglia, Mike Birbiglia. And I walked up and I held it up and his last name before he died was Bergoglio. And I go, I am Birbilia. You are the Birgolio. I'm the next pope. I don't think he understood, but he sort of smiled. I was clearly doing a bit. It was fun. Yeah.
But it was great for my, I mean, that was like a big deal for my parents because I was raised, my mom was like very Catholic. Yeah. You know, grew up in Buffalo and, you know, went to Latin Mass when she was a kid. Latin Mass?
Oh, that's. Like not even in English.
That's serious.
yeah so yeah there's Conan and what did you say Rock said oh yeah I was walking down the hall like that hallway actually it was Rock and I go I go what do you think of all this and he looks around at like these ornate ceilings and walls and he goes well it's not a union job it was a great joke that's great
Yeah.
Well, I think in our... The three of us, in our career span, comedy went from being kind of a dirtbag, kind of nightclub sport, to being like pop culture. The Pope was inviting us. A little bit of propaganda. He's giving a speech, comedy is important at this moment in time. It brings people together and all this stuff.
What he's really trying to do is say, it's cool to be pious and care about things and connect people. Yeah. And it was good. It was a good speech. I mean, it really was like, and he gave us these rosary beads that he blessed. And so I brought them home to my parents and like, you know, she loved that.
Yeah, it's a strange turn. Because I was an altar boy as a kid and all that. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. My joke in the special is, and the answer is no. I think because they knew I was a talker. Yeah, but... But, like, but, yeah, no, so I was very, like, that was one of the only things I ever truly studied in my life, and it was Catholicism when I was a kid.
In Ohio?
Well, that was the whole thing. I'm so much the opposite of my parents. I was indoctrinated as a kid. And then with my daughter, who's 10, we've never taken her to church, ever. I haven't told her almost anything. We go to the Vatican. She's like, Dad, who's Jesus? I'm like, oh, wow.
I've really done some oversight, overlooked some big things. Because she knows about the Greek gods and the Roman gods and the Norse gods. And I just didn't say anything about Jesus. So I'm just doing this crash course on Jesus. He's this guy. He's a big deal. He's a big deal. People think he's God and son of God.
Yeah.
It's interesting. I heard this theory, which is a majority of what your kids learn isn't from their parents. It's from their friends' parents. Oh, wow. Ever heard that concept? That's terrifying. Because the kids tune out their own parents. Yeah. But then other adults are like, all right, maybe.
Do you guys ever have like big picture conversations? Yes, Mike Birbiglia.
Yeah. I like that you got... The thing I envy about you guys living in Texas is you got outdoors. Yeah. Kids can run around. They do. Brooklyn. We live in Brooklyn. They can't really run around.
That's fine.
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