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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
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Stand-Up Comedian
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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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...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 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 like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.
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Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?
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Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.
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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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Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to 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 find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
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I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
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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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My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
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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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The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
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I read recently that women still make 30% less than men in the workplace. Which I think is fine, cause if we didn't make 30% more, you guys would marry each other.
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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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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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