Comedy Quotes by Mike Birbiglia

Pain is funnier than love.

— Mike Birbiglia

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

— Mike Birbiglia

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

— Mike Birbiglia

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

— Mike Birbiglia

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

— Mike Birbiglia

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

— Mike Birbiglia

Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

— Mike Birbiglia

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.

— Mike Birbiglia

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

— Mike Birbiglia

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

— Mike Birbiglia

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

— Mike Birbiglia

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my…

— Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz.…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy…

— Mike Birbiglia

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for…

— Mike Birbiglia

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

— Mike Birbiglia

Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert…

— Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is…

— Mike Birbiglia

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour…

— Mike Birbiglia

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this…

— Mike Birbiglia

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why…

— Mike Birbiglia

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was…

— Mike Birbiglia

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings…

— Mike Birbiglia

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that…

— Mike Birbiglia

Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people…

— Mike Birbiglia

When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing…

— Mike Birbiglia

In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

— Mike Birbiglia

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

— Mike Birbiglia

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

— Mike Birbiglia

People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal.

— Mike Birbiglia

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

— Mike Birbiglia

The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a…

— Mike Birbiglia

Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other…

— Mike Birbiglia

When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do;…

— Mike Birbiglia

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people…

— Mike Birbiglia

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are…

— Mike Birbiglia

I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven…

— Mike Birbiglia