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I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
Comedian
Executive Producer
Film Director
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Stand-Up Comedian
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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'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.
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I just don't give off a great first impression.
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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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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What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
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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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Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.
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I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!
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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
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Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.
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I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.
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You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.
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Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else. I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.
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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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The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.
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My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
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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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I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
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I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
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