37. Jo Firestone: Onomatopizza and the Fyrestone Fest

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In anticipation of this week’s “Worldwide Comedy Pizza Party” Mike welcomes one of the most uniquely funny people alive and the two comics go deep on deep dish. Jo explains her controversial take on eating pizza crust first and builds on Mike’s already over the top “onomatopizza” pun. Along the way Jo tells the story of the time she put on a comedy festival at a carwash at 8 o’clock in the morning and why she ordered 30 pizzas for the audience. Podcast is served. https://www.iamwomankind.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Mike and we're back with a new episode!
0:10.0	A new episode of working it out.
0:13.7	I'm so excited.
0:15.8	If you don't have tickets already for the worldwide comedy pizza party on core this Friday
0:21.9	and Saturday, by all means do it 100% jokes about pizza, some of which I work on with Joe
0:29.1	Firestone on the episode today.
0:32.7	Tickets at burbigs.com.
0:34.7	But today we got Joe Firestone, one of the funniest people on the planet.
0:38.4	You might recognize her.
0:40.4	She plays a little role in don't think twice if you saw that, which she's one of the improv
0:47.0	students in Gillian Jacobs' class along with Gary Richardson and Josh Rabinoetz and Connor
0:55.6	Ratliffe.
0:57.2	She's been on.
0:58.2	It's a search party in Broad City and the tonight's show and John Glazer loves gear and just
1:04.4	and Joe Paratalks with you.
1:05.8	Tons of stuff.
1:06.8	She's one of these people.
1:08.4	If you Google image her, you go, oh yeah, yeah.
1:12.3	Of course.
1:13.3	Of course, I know who that is.
1:15.2	She has her own half hour special in Comedy Central.
1:18.6	She is an absolute riot.
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