54. Phoebe Robinson: Is She a Writer? Oh Yes, She Is

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The last time Phoebe Robinson and Mike hung out, they were waiting to be picked up by an Uber on the side of a highway after their tour bus broke down. In this episode, they discuss Phoebe’s third book, "Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes,” the eternal question "to prenup or not to prenup," and why Mike was qualified to be a token white guy on Phoebe's "Sooo Many White Guys" podcast. https://www.girlswritenow.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we are back with a new episode of Working It Out.
0:10.0	Thanks, it's just a quick thank you to everybody for picking up the paper back of my book, The New One,
0:17.0	and writing these nice user reviews around the internet as well as all the listeners of Working It Out.
0:25.0	We've gotten so much great feedback and people have written really nice notes to working it out,
0:31.0	at gmail.com. We have another amazing guest today.
0:36.0	This is a woman who I've been friends with and I've admired her comedy for many years.
0:42.0	She's a New York Times bestselling author. Her first book was called You Can't Touch My Hair.
0:47.0	Her second book was called Everything's Trash, but it's okay.
0:50.0	Her third book, which just came out, is called Please Don't Sit On My Bed, in your outside clothes.
0:57.0	She is a podcaster. She had a show called Toot Up Queens that became an HBO series.
1:04.0	She had a podcast called So Many White Guys that I was on as a token white guy.
1:10.0	And she's a new HBO stand-up comedy special coming out this fall.
1:16.0	I had a blast talking with her and I hope you enjoy my conversation with the great Phoebe Robinson.
1:23.0	One of the things I love about the book is you say a confession.
1:36.0	You say at the outset you're like, 2020 is going to be my year.
1:42.0	And when I read that I laughed so hard because I was like, that's what I thought.
1:49.0	Which is peak, which is peak, confessional comedy when someone admits something to you and you go, oh my god, that's exact.
1:55.0	I didn't even realize I thought it was going to be my year.
1:58.0	Yeah, yeah, totally.
2:00.0	I remember like my boyfriend, British Bake Off.
2:03.0	He was coming off of touring and we were just like, oh, we're going to finally be together.
2:08.0	I'm like, we're going to go on vacations. We're going to like you like pop around the city, like all this stuff.
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