194. Pete Holmes Returns: Vulnerability is Everything

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, Pete Holmes returns to the studio for one of Working It Out’s most joke-dense episodes ever. Mike and Pete work out jokes about strangers in hot tubs, why Jerry Seinfeld sounds like his own name, and how cool guys in movies swallow their pills without water. Plus, the comedy advice Pete wishes he knew when he was starting out. Want more of Mike and Pete? Subscribe to Working It Out’s premium feed on Apple Podcasts to listen to their bonus episode together where they work out listener-submitted material!

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0:00.0	Have you noticed all comedians are like their name?
0:06.0	Oh, that's great.
0:06.5	Bill Burr is Bill Burr.
0:08.2	Yeah.
0:08.6	Bill!
0:09.2	Bill! Bill! Bill!
0:10.3	Stephen Wright.
0:12.8	Jerry, sign phone!
0:15.6	Sign phone!
0:17.2	Ray, Romano!
0:19.6	Romano!
0:21.5	And then someone yelled out, Barbiglia!
0:24.3	And I went, my, berbiglia.
0:29.7	Barbiglia is like the sound, a water cooler jug makes.
0:34.4	That's you.
0:35.9	It's like kind of needs to be changed.
0:37.3	Blah blagliah. Blah blah. That's you. It's like kind of needs to be changed.
0:44.2	That is the voice of the great Pete Holmes.
0:45.4	Pete Holmes is back.
0:46.2	Come on.
0:48.0	Come on, everybody.
0:49.5	In the studio.
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