THE TALKING HEADS: (Singing) There he is, fast asleep. 28. Mike sits down with Conan to talk about taking advantage of his many ailments, not being the class clown, and giving back to the community with Tip Your Waitstaff. I mean, I know that sounds crazy, but thats just a fact.. Yeah, right. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Wellness. But it was just such a touching thing, Thompson said. You're the reason that all these things are happening. Comedians are actually very proprietary over like, I'm not going to show you my early version of this. And so, I think they're all sort of making an exception in this case because everything is so uncertain people just need to laugh., Join me here on my Instagram live stories with the great @sarahkatesilverman!! The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. testing out a joke on delighted fellow comedian Mike Birbiglia and nearly 73,000 other viewers tuning into their live Instagram conversation. Theres only two things you can talk about: Yourself or the world. This is getting into really small stuff but there was one witness and I couldn't get in touch with him. He's been on TV and radio. And finding new things. And then you kind of realize that it's actually you. He is incredible at storytelling. BIRBIGLIA: No, no. She really likes it. THR: So if you wrote something that was not based on stand-up, youd want someone else to act in it? BIRBIGLIA: I have the body of someone who's just about to start P90X SHAPIRO: As you can probably guess, "The New One" explores his mixed feelings about becoming a parent. Do you normally not wear a wedding ring? Join our community book club. And SHAPIRO: You mean saying things about a child that just made people kind of go sheesh (ph) BIRBIGLIA: And then I sort of - I, you know - and that's what - comedians, that's sort of the task of the comedian is you have to - you cross the line, and then once you realize where the line is, you inch back from it, and so that you're always sort of going there for people. The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Mitch Hedberg - Grunge Birbiglia explores his ambivalence about parenthood in the new book, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad. Like, I won't say, like, I bombed. Comedian and actor Mike Birbiglia had his career trajectory pretty much planned from the day he started college. And you're like, but we're humans, and they're like, this is what it is. I have the body of someone who's just about to start P90X and then doesn't. The - and that's part of the reason I never wanted to have a child. The comedian-director spoke to THR at the WGA Awards on Sunday, giving updates on his next film and explaining why he doesn't want to act in his own movies. Do you think you might go out of business at some point? And I really feel strongly that the first half of the show really has to go there and be as dark as possible in terms of why no one should have a child and so that when I have a child, people go, oh, wow. Mike Birbiglia and his wife, poet J. And then I went to a department store, and I was like, wait - how much is it? I kept calling him, but I think he was just kind of living, he was like a drifter, actually, so he just kind of disappeared. And I really feel strongly that the first half of the show really has to go there and be as dark as possible in terms of why no one should have a child, and so that when I have a child, people go, oh, wow, he got out of it. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn. Which is a real crazy thought. And the first real pop of my balloon was the first time I performed some of this material at a college. A friend from high school came the other night who knew all of the people and he loved the show, he stayed around and we talked about it afterward for a long time, but we didn't talk about Amanda and we didn't talk about Keith Robins. I love this cast, I think its an incredible ensemble cast, and Seth Meyers writes the hell out of that show, and Colin writes the hell out of that show. The sentiment of, we would stop other people from getting married: true. BIRBIGLIA: And then you have to take it home. Just so many people that came to the [show], all these friends and family, I'm dealing with all the people, the people who couldn't make it, all the emails like, "Sorry, couldn't make it!" He talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about his new Broadway show, The New One, about what happened next. Stars: Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Mike Birbiglia. My process is very trial-and-error, same with Ira. Nom-nom-nom Mommy I ate you.And you died in my tummy.That would be a nice place to die. I was just like, well, let's just watch . I was opening for him, in central Pennsylvania at a theater, and it was all these superfans and they were just shouting like, BANANA!, or whatever joke they wanted to hear. Mike Birbiglia - My Girlfriend's Boyfriend is one of the best - Reddit Birbiglia: Exactly. It's sort of early days for him and you can tell. His 2013 special, Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2013), was nominated for comedy special of the . The first Fathers Day was in Washington state in 1910, inspired by a twice-widowed Civil War veteran who raised six of his 14 children alone after their mother died in childbirth. SHAPIRO: When I was watching the show, I wondered how much of the discomfort being a parent is connected to the sense that you've spent your whole life becoming good at the things an adult has to be good at, and then suddenly, there's a new thing that you're not at all good at and not at all prepared for, and it's kind of a sense of dislocation almost. They start going out, and it's going great, except that Amanda hasn't quite broken up with Scott, her other boyfriend. Sos its about the existential dread of being alive.. A quick march down Birbiglias hilarious Via Dolorosa: surviving bladder cancer at age 19; getting T-boned by a drunk driver; nearly dying after running through the second-story window of a La Quinta Inn in Walla Walla, Wash., in the grip of a sleep disorder. And parenting seems to have some things in common with that. Has he now gone on and become domesticated? The question is when we will be able to have a comedian who needs a sold-out show for us to be able to afford them -- like, how long will that be?. SHAPIRO: Mike, thanks a lot for coming to the studio. I don't know. A Typical Disgusting Display en Apple Podcasts
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