185. Julio Torres: Off-Broadway, SNL, and Why Barbie Isn’t Pink

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week Mike sits down with Julio Torres to talk comedy writing and color theories. Based on ideas posited in Julio’s new Off-Broadway solo show, Color Theories, the two of them get to the bottom of what color Barbie the Movie, Martha Stewart, and Jeremy Strong are. They also discuss the behind-the-scenes story of Julio’s viral SNL sketch, “Papyrus” starring Ryan Gosling. Plus, two encounters Julio and Mike had at the gym that aren’t sitting right with them.

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0:00.0	people that have never met me feel some kind of kinship to me through my work.
0:04.8	And sometimes it's hard to place if like, is this someone I met at a party or is this
0:09.9	someone who I've never met in my life?
0:11.7	Yes.
0:12.5	And so I'm like, hey.
0:14.3	And then they're like, hi, how's it going?
0:17.7	Yeah.
0:18.0	Good.
0:19.1	And I was actually telling my partner that's like, oh, one of these days I'm fully going to like invite a stranger to my home.
0:26.8	Like, I'm fully going to.
0:29.5	By accident, you mean?
0:31.3	Like, because you're playing through the idea?
0:34.1	Oh, yeah.
0:34.6	Or like, I'm fully end up going to go to a wedding of people
0:37.5	who I have no idea who they are.
0:42.2	That is the voice of the great
0:43.5	Julio Torres. We are so excited
0:46.4	that Julio Torres, who we've wanted to have
0:49.4	on the show for so long, finally
0:51.6	made it to the working at out studio.
0:57.9	He is a wildly creative, writer-performer. You might know him from his work on Los Espookies or his movie Problemista. I just saw his new solo show
1:04.2	color theories at Performance-based New York. It's fantastic. It's wildly original. He wrote for S&L.
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