110. Greg Warren: Comedy Lessons From a Salesman

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Greg Warren is one of Mike’s oldest friends in comedy. Greg and Mike often work out jokes on the phone but today they bring their collaborative friendship to the podcast for an hour-long discussion on setups, punchlines, and what makes a good partner to work out jokes with. All that plus Greg discusses his new special “The Salesman” directed by Nate Bargatze and Greg recalls the story of when he introduced Mike to his new wife Jenny and somehow got written out of the story.

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0:00.0	This show working it out is working out jokes with comedian friends. This is actually what we do in real life
0:05.1	Like we're on the phone at least a couple times a month. Yes
0:08.4	What are your favorite qualities of someone to bounce jokes off?
0:12.6	Positivity
0:13.5	Good good. Love it ding ding ding. I think listening listening is huge. Yeah, yeah
0:19.5	You got to listen
0:21.3	Before you can actually give a take right or an addition
0:26.2	Yeah, and then I think also
0:29.0	Knowing the person helps yeah because like hey man. This is
0:32.7	This is what you're good at or this is a you always you know sort of with me bring it back to like
0:38.5	Yeah, Greg. There's that thing that you saw or that you did that sort of exterior, but what does it have to do with you?
0:49.7	That is the voice of the great Greg Warren Greg Warren is one of my oldest friends as a matter of fact
0:55.3	He introduced me to my wife
0:57.5	The poet J. Hope side. He introduced me to Jenny almost 20 years ago
1:02.2	One of my closest friends one of the people who in my life I work out jokes with all the time
1:09.3	and and in some ways this podcast is inspired by my friendship with people like Greg
1:17.2	hugely funny person
1:19.2	Really great comic support a friend
1:22.3	I should point out that he will be on tour in Youngstown, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Omaha, Louisville all of that on Greg Warren comedy
1:30.1	Dot com. I am in my final week in London if you want to come see me at the Wyndham's theater
1:36.3	There's only a few seats left and then I'm going to be announcing some club dates only on burbigs.com the mailing less
1:43.4	So if you join the mailing list you'll be the first to know
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