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The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
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Stand-Up Comedian
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I just don't give off a great first impression.
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Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.
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I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy.
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I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.
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Sex and pizza, they say, are similar. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad, you get it on your shirt.
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I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.
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Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
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Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream
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...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.
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I'm a compulsive everything.
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I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
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I don't smoke a lot of pot anymore. No one wants to hang around a guy who ends every sentence with, Do you guys hate me?
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My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.
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Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.
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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
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