Comedians working together is a beautiful thing.
Comedian Mike Birbiglia welcomes a different comedian or creator each week and together they work out original, untested material. And, occasionally, uncomfortable topics. Join them as they work it out.
Mike Birbiglia: A comedian, storyteller, director and actor who has performed in front of audiences worldwide, from the Sydney Opera House to Broadway. His shows, “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend” and “Thank God for Jokes,” were both filmed for Netflix. His most recent show, “The New One,” ran for 99 shows at the Cort Theatre.
In addition to performing live, Mike is an author and filmmaker who wrote, directed and starred in the films Sleepwalk with Me and Don’t Think Twice. Mike’s book “Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories” was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. As an actor, Mike has appeared on “Inside Amy Schumer,” HBO’s “Girls” and “Broad City,” as well as in the films Trainwreck, The Fault in Our Stars and Popstar. He plays the role of Danny Pearson on “Orange Is the New Black” and Oscar Langstraat on Showtime’s “Billions.” He is a contributor to “This American Life” on public radio. In 2017, Mike was honored with the Kurt Vonnegut Award for humor.
This week’s episode, on the heels of the release of his new special “Domestic Shorthair,” Todd Barry sits down with Mike for a conversation about his 35 years in comedy.
The two talk about whether or not Todd invented crowdwork, if Bill Burr was right when he said Mike was “doing” Todd when Mike was first starting out, and why Todd can never do another prom show.
Plus, Todd reveals the problem he has with Mike’s cat, Mr. Moustache.
Boasting multiple stand-up appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman Late Night with Conan O’Brien Jimmy Kimmel Live! and two Comedy Central Presents specials and his latest one hour Comedy Central special Super Crazy. Todd’s resume also includes such hit TV shows as Louie Delocated Bored to Death Tim and Eric Chappelle’s Show Sex and the City and even Sesame Street. Among his additional feature-film highlights are Todd Phillips’s Road Trip Louis CK’s Pootie Tang and Mitch Hedberg’s Los Enchiladas. You can see him soon at Sigourney Weaver’s right hand man in Amy Heckerling’s Vamps and as Paul Rudd’s co-worker in David Wain’s Wanderlust. Internationally he has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival the Vancouver International Comedy Festival and Kilkenny Ireland’s Cat Laughs Festival.
Todd has been heard on both The Howard Stern Show and The Bob & Tom Show and his albums Medium Energy Falling Off the Bone and From Heaven are available from Comedy Central Records Amazon and iTunes. He has earned the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival’s Jury Award praise from Ricky Gervais as one of the best comedians of 2009 and accolades from The Onion’s A.V. Club which declared Medium Energy one of the best comedy albums of the decade.
Todd was the subject of a recent New York Times Arts section cover story which referred to him as a “master of standup” and noted “when it comes to live performance few comics are more consistently funny.”
In April 2013 the Todd Barry Podcast debuted. It reached #1 on the iTunes.
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