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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.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
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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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Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.
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I just don't give off a great first impression.
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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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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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Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
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A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'
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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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I'm a compulsive everything.
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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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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I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.
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I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.
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I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.
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Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.
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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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You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
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I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.
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Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.
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I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
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