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Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
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Executive Producer
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Stand-Up Comedian
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How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
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I actually love 'Saturday Night Live,' like a sports fan watches their favorite team to see how they're doing. I know the players and the writers, I've known several people on that show for a number of years.
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I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.
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The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.
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I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: whitebread. The other day, someone came up to me and said, What's up, whitebread? And I was like, That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!
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There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.
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My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.
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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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In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.
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I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
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The key is to do what you love.
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I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.
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Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.
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I'm a compulsive everything.
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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 struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.
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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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Some people come up to me and say You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia And I say Well, here in America, you're annoying...
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You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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