30. Nikki Glaser: The Taylor Swift of Comedy

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Prolific, raw, and hilarious comic Nikki Glaser shares childhood memories of her mom in the Slow Round that she’s not yet willing to tell on stage but is willing to say on a podcast. Nikki and Mike both admit that their level of honesty with even their own diaries doesn’t hit 100%. Nikki declares herself the Taylor Swift of comedy and Mike declares himself the Springsteen. This episode is raw and honest and funny. https://www.strayrescue.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Mike. We are back with another episode of Working It Out with the great
0:12.4	Nikki Glazer. I want to plug one thing before we begin. Next weekend for Valentine's
0:17.9	Day, I'm doing six live virtual shows, No More Comedy Club tickets at Burbigs.com, Thursday,
0:27.8	Friday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, the Sunday Late Show has special guest Maria
0:33.5	Bamford and all of the proceeds, 100% of the proceeds go to food banks and so get tickets
0:40.8	at Burbigs.com. Today on the show we have Nikki Glazer. Nikki is one of the funniest people
0:46.1	on the planet. She's the star of a countless comedy specials of her own, including her
0:53.4	recent one, which is called Bangin, which is hilarious, her Instagram and Nikki Glazer says,
0:59.8	on tour constantly, when there's no pandemic host of a new daily podcast soon to be announced,
1:06.3	she's an amazing radio and podcast host. I should warn you sensitive topics. She's raw.
1:15.5	If you don't know Nikki's comedy, she's in the roasts and she's, you know, she really
1:21.0	goes at topics hard and fearlessly, she talks about sex and abuse and suicide and things
1:29.5	that you might not want to hear about today. And if not, maybe this is not the one for
1:36.3	you, but I think ultimately really productive conversation and really funny. I think she's
1:41.8	so good at turning things that are very dark and the things that are very funny and productive
1:48.4	and beautiful. So enjoy my conversation with the great Nikki Glazer.
1:56.0	You know, people always ask me, do you need to do any rituals before you go on stage and
2:07.3	center yourself? And I can just easily transition between a conversation backstage and be like,
2:13.1	hold that thought, walk right on, because I don't need to go, okay, who am I going to
2:17.8	be out there? I don't need to memorize anything. I just go out and I talk. And of course,
2:23.8	the jokes are memorized, but the only jokes that I memorized because I said them once in
2:30.4	the way that I talk and then I go, oh, that works. I have a really good memory for how
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