176. Jane Wickline & Liva Pierce: SNL, Dukes, and Working Out Songs

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week comedy duo Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce (together known as Dukes) join Mike on the podcast. The three discuss how The Graduate brought Jane and Liva together, their unlikely porn preferences, and what happened when Jane showed up to her SNL audition early. Jane and Liva work out a couple songs from their touring show and for the first time ever on Working It Out—Mike’s jokes get set to music.

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0:00.0	So this is a song from the touring dukes show right now.
0:04.7	That's in process, which is good for working it out.
0:07.3	And it's a song about what we think about porn.
0:11.2	Okay, perfect.
0:13.5	They say porn is far too extreme now.
0:17.9	Well, it's not extreme to me.
0:20.7	All of these films put me right to sleep three sums foursums
0:27.1	fums five sums and i'm just bored give me something more a video of sex that shocks me to my core
0:35.8	please mr porn help don't you understand i want a of sex that shocks me to my core.
0:39.9	Please, Mr. Porn, help don't you understand?
0:43.5	I want a film to take me by the hand.
0:46.6	I need newborn to treat me like a friend.
0:49.9	Teach me how to be a better man. That is the voice of the great Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce.
1:01.6	This is a really cool episode today.
1:04.3	Leva is a stand-up comic actor and writer.
1:07.4	Jane is a comic actor and writer.
1:10.2	You might know from Saturday Night Live.
1:12.6	Jane's done a whole bunch of these weekend update songs,
1:15.6	and Saturday Live as a cast member that are a riot.
1:19.6	Together they're the stars of a sketch comedy duo called Dukes,
1:24.6	which is co-directed by our very own working-in-out producer, Mabel Lewis, along with
1:30.4	show Hornbuckle. That sketch show is on tour. It's hilarious. I saw it at UCB Theater in New York.
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