I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
Mike BirbigliaI think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.
Mike BirbigliaI'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.
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