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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

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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...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 feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
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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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I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.
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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'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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Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
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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 ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
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So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.
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I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
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A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'
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Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
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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 family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
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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 performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.
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