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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

191. Todd Glass: The Ultimate Comic's Comic

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Todd Glass was one of the first comics Mike opened for. It’s easy to see how, since then, Todd has become one of the most beloved comic of his generation, revered by comics including Nikki Glaser, Judd Apatow, and Rory Scovel. Now Mike and Todd sit down for a discussion about how coming out changed Todd’s life and his comedy, Todd’s heart attack backstage at Largo, and Todd’s new live show featuring a band. Plus, jokes about peanut allergies and old-sounding names, and the story behind the viral video of Todd vs. a heckler.

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you have no rules in your show. Like I remember, is it the DC improv and you were improvising on stage?

0:07.7

And then you reached over and someone had chicken fingers on their table and you just start eating the chicken fingers.

0:12.4

I would get hungry on stage. It was weird. It's so funny. Yeah, I, it's so funny. Like, I remember once you say it, but then I don't remember it.

0:21.2

But the eating, I would always get hungry, and I was like, why are you hungry on stage as you're performing?

0:25.9

So I'd be like, I'll eat it like a bit, but I'll eat it because I'm hungry.

0:33.8

That is the voice of the great Todd Glass.

0:37.0

So thrilled to have Todd Glass on the podcast today.

0:41.6

I've referenced Todd Glass on this podcast so many times.

0:46.1

He's one of those comedians who people reference him so much.

0:51.0

He is just a very extraordinarily unique comic. I met him in the late 90s at the

0:58.6

Washington, D.C. Improv. We talked about that today when I was working the door, and he

1:03.2

just was really inspiring. I talk about it today. I won't give anything else away, but

1:08.5

listen to this episode. He's just a super, super smart comedian.

1:14.8

And if you're in New York City, you got to see his show at Second City in Brooklyn.

1:19.4

It is called The Event of a Lifetime.

1:22.1

And it's running now until November 16th.

1:25.5

It's an intimate stand-up show with a big band and singers. We talk about

1:30.0

that a lot on the show today. By the way, thanks to everybody who bought tickets to the next

1:33.7

jokes and poems show with me and my wife, the poet, Jay Hope Stein. By the way, the feedback to

1:39.6

last week's episode has been amazing. I mean, we gave you the email address working atopod

1:46.2

at gmail.com for feedback about where to publish, because I had this idea during the episode

1:52.1

where I was like, what if we did publish just this one poem as its own book?

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