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The key is to do what you love.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
Comedian
Executive Producer
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
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I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.
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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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Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.
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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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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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There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.
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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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I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
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The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.
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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
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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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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.
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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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Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
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Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have plans.
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Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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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 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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I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
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