121. Maddie Wiener: How to Find the Humor in a Panic Attack

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Maddie Wiener started performing stand-up at age 16. Now, at age 25, she headlines clubs, is a fixture at the Comedy Cellar, and she was recently a special guest on Mike’s shows at The Wilbur in Boston. Now Maddie and Mike sit down for a chat about the relationship between anxiety and comedy, and Mike helps Maddie develop a story about a panic attack. Plus, the wisdom Maddie learned from Nikki Glaser, and why “Hey, can we talk?” is the scariest text you can get.

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0:00.0	This weekend I was at a club and I told a story about having a panic attack and like I walked people through like what it felt like I felt like I was gonna die imminent, you know like really like the dark thoughts that a panic, have you ever had a panic attack?
0:14.5	Oh, I've been, oh, you're speaking my language.
0:17.3	Brother have I.
0:20.3	Yeah, I had my first panic attack when I was like seven years old.
0:24.0	Yeah, I honestly love talking about it.
0:26.0	We have medics on site here today in case you have a panic attack.
0:31.0	I thought you were trying to upstage me of like, yeah, it's cute, you were seven.
0:36.5	Well, I'd run around with a doctor trailing me at all times, so call me when that happens.
0:41.4	What if working it out, how had a house in-house doctor?
0:45.0	What if we had an in-house doctor, in-house psychiatrist?
0:48.0	I'm riffing something, you're like,
0:50.0	that actually sounds like a problem.
0:51.0	Can we get you in here, please?
0:52.0	Let's explore that
0:53.3	further. That is the voice of Maddie Wiener. Maddie is a phenomenal young comic.
1:03.4	She's a fixture at the comedy cellar in New York City.
1:07.0	This is a super fun episode we have today.
1:09.4	I think you're gonna love it.
1:11.0	The tour started in Boston. It continued in January. In the Pacific Northwest I was in
1:18.3	Walla, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, and this week I am headed to Florida.
1:26.0	There's a great, if you're on my Instagram.
1:30.0	I posted a Florida review from Jacksonville from many years ago when someone said they didn't like my language
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