Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I was a screenwriting major at Georgetown, and I was in class with some really strong writers like Jonathan Nolan, who co-wrote… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
