Mike Birbiglia (born June 20, 1978) is an American comedian, writer, actor and director. Read full biography of Mike Birbiglia →
Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them... →
After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience... →
I actually wasn't really the class clown growing up. The class clown was always the mean guy who walked up and was like, 'You're fat.... →
I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little... →
If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all... →
In real life, I first started sleep walking in high school because that was when this concept of getting into college first appeared. I had this... →
Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to... →
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that... →
When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should write... →
I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of... →
I always live tweet 'SNL.'
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.
Mike Birbiglia (born June 20, 1978) is an American comedian, writer, actor and director.