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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

162. Pete Holmes Returns: Comedy That’s Clean, Dirty, or PG-13

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Sleepwalkwithme, Iraglass, Comedy, Thankgodforjokes, Thenewone, Mikebirbiglia, Dontthinktwice, Birbiglia

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Pete Holmes returns to help Mike punch up some last minute jokes before the premiere of Mike’s show The Good Life at the Beacon Theatre in New York. What follows is a heated debate about puns, an attempt to define and dissect the nature of “clean” comedy, and, yes, a nuts and bolts joke writing session. Plus, Pete psychoanalyzes the state of Massachusetts, and Mike recalls the time he opened for Tracy Morgan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to roast you all the time, but you look good.

0:02.6

And I'm sorry I said you were going to die before me.

0:05.4

You know. Sometimes it's hard to hear the truth.

0:07.6

I appreciate it.

0:10.5

I love seeing you.

0:11.6

You look like a guy in a foot locker trying on running shoes and people who see you go.

0:15.9

Oh.

0:19.4

Like he's trying?

0:20.4

Yeah.

0:24.2

You're like a real bless his heart running shoe purchase that is the voice of the great pete homes we are so excited i'm back this is a spur of the moment

0:36.0

idea i had the other day because I'm about to do my final shows at the Beacon Theater, March 16 through 22, after touring the show and developing the show, The Good Life over the course of two years.

0:52.4

And I was going to call Pete to ask about punching up some jokes

0:57.6

for it. And then I was like, you know what? Let's record it and see what jokes he's working on

1:05.0

because he just filmed a special. And so he is at square one. And so he had some bits. And then we ended up in this big digression about the nature of clean comedy versus not clean comedy and all this kind of stuff.

1:18.6

It ended up being great.

1:20.5

Thanks to everyone, by the way, who's been coming out to the shows, the final performances of Please Stop the Ride slash what's called now, which is The Good Life.

1:29.5

And the shows have been really, really cool.

1:31.9

The Largo shows in Los Angeles this week are sold out.

1:35.9

A portion of the proceeds are going to fire relief efforts.

1:38.9

I'm very excited to be returning to Los Angeles.

1:41.7

And then back at the Beacon Theater only a few tickets left

1:45.8

go to berbigs.com for tickets.

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