117. Beth Stelling Returns: Two Skeletons Telling Jokes

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes back to the podcast comedian Beth Stelling, whose Netflix special If You Didn’t Want Me Then is on seemingly everyone’s best of year lists, including Mike’s. Mike and Beth discuss touring together, Beth’s desire to be authentic on stage, and Beth’s dad feeding raccoons out of a trough. Plus, they explore the parallels between stand-up comedy and Beth’s new venture: professional field hockey.

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0:00.0	I've been talking about if we were taught how to take an owl in sex ed class or even just
0:06.2	health class, like how to take a loss, like everybody's lives would be better, right?
0:11.2	Instead of the classic, like, you know, do you want to go to dance with me?
0:15.7	No, I don't.
0:16.7	Well, you're fucking ugly.
0:17.7	And I was like, oh, okay, well, moments ago you wanted to spin me about.
0:21.5	Moments ago you wanted to spin me about. Um, moments ago you wanted to spin me about.
0:24.2	Yeah, what a great joke.
0:25.9	And if...
0:26.9	Is that, you're gonna say it?
0:27.9	Yeah, it's a new bit.
0:28.9	Moments ago you wanted to spin me about.
0:31.6	That is the voice of the great Beth Stelling. She's been on the
0:37.0	podcast before and she's back. She has a new special that has gotten all kinds of
0:41.3	rave reviews from Vulture in the New York Times called
0:44.0	if you didn't want me then I couldn't recommend it more highly and that way and
0:49.1	we have a great chat today I am in Boston this week. I'm performing the beginning of my please stop the ride
0:57.3	tour ten performances at the Wilbur Theater so exciting and. And I just announced, I've got a lot of comments,
1:06.4	how come you are coming to Chicago?
1:08.3	How come we not coming to Los Angeles?
1:10.4	We just announced, I'm coming to Chicago Theater, I'm coming to Chicago Theater.
1:13.4	I'm coming to Los Angeles to the Ace Hotel Theater.
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