56. Atsuko Okatsuka: Her Life Should Be a Movie

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Atsuko Okatsuka makes comedy videos featuring her grandmother & her husband, which Mike is convinced should be a feature film. The two comedians discuss Atsuko’s move from Japan at age 10, her grandmother’s run-in with a praying mantis, and why Mike might end up making a cameo in Atsuko’s feature film singing “Amazing Grace.” Earnestly. https://downtownwomenscenter.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we are back with a new episode of working it out.
0:12.0	We're still going.
0:14.3	We're going strong.
0:17.0	I'm doing the podcast and I'm on tour at the same time.
0:23.9	A lot of people have been asking on Instagram and Twitter and TikTok whether or not I will
0:28.9	still continue to do the podcast and I love the podcast.
0:33.4	I gotta say, I love doing the podcast for reasons like meeting my guests today.
0:43.1	But I'm on tour, be aware I'll be in Boston, my hometown, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee,
0:52.2	Denver.
0:53.3	My guest today will be in a lot of those cities as well.
0:57.8	This is someone, it's a very unique guest.
1:00.7	It's a comedian who I literally came across on Instagram because she makes these really
1:05.3	funny and original videos with excellent dancing choreography and absurdism.
1:12.6	She makes them with her grandmother and her husband.
1:15.0	And I went down this sort of Otsuko, Akatsuko, rabbit hole of her career and realized,
1:21.5	no, she just stand up at Largo in Los Angeles.
1:23.9	That's one of my favorite places to do stand up and she's on tour right now.
1:26.6	She's wildly popular and I commented on one of her videos that it should be a movie,
1:32.1	like it should be expanded out into a feature film.
1:35.4	And then I just asked her to come on the podcast and then here we are.
1:40.4	We talk about her tour.
1:42.9	We talk about the idea of what a movie scenario of one of these shorts could be if it was
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