I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
Mike BirbigliaSex and pizza, they say, are similar. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad, you get it on your shirt.
Mike BirbigliaWhat I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.
Mike BirbigliaI'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"
Mike Birbiglia