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Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
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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 don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.
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Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
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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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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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What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
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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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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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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
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Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.
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I'm walking out my door to get like a Snapple, and someone's like 'yo man, you want to buy some heroin?' 'No... got any Snapple?'
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Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.
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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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The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.
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