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.
Mike BirbigliaThey really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.
Mike BirbigliaI've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
Mike BirbigliaThe ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
Mike BirbigliaI think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing something else then in the next few years." I dunno, it almost feels hackneyed at this point. To start a premise by saying, "I did this awkward thing." But then again, awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
Mike Birbiglia