69. Atsuko Okatsuka Returns: How to Become Yourself

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When Atsuko was first on the Working It Out podcast, Mike only knew her from her viral Instagram videos and some of her stand-up. Since then, Mike and Atsuko toured together and their "pandemic friendship" became a real friendship. Now Atsuko returns, in person, to discuss what it's like to develop her new hour of comedy, and why it takes 10 years to become yourself on stage. Plus, stories and jokes about taking your mom and grandma to a "bottomless" show in Las Vegas, and what Mike has in store for Mike and Atsuko's upcoming show in Washington DC. Please consider donating to: Downtown Women's Center Los Angeles

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0:00.0	The people I enjoy most watching are people where on and off stage there's not that much of a difference.
0:08.0	Yeah, same here actually. Yeah. I like an open book.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:15.0	Even like Tignitaro for example, we were on tour in Portland, Oregon and Seattle together.
0:20.0	We met up with TIG.
0:22.0	And TIG, is it a perfect example?
0:25.0	If people are listening to this and they listen to TIG album or they watch it, TIG is a special.
0:32.0	You got TIG.
0:34.0	And that's why she's such a pain in the ass to hang out with.
0:38.0	Because she's just a wall punch.
0:41.0	And TIG, if you're listening, we love you.
0:43.0	We love you so much. But that's the...
0:45.0	It's all respect.
0:46.0	That's the magic we're TIG.
0:48.0	That's the voice of Otsuko Akatsuko.
0:52.0	One of my favorite comics, she is on the rise.
0:55.0	She has been on tour with me a whole lot this year.
0:59.0	We were in Portland and Seattle and Minneapolis and North Carolina.
1:04.0	And she's doing that. She's on her own tour.
1:08.0	She'll be actually in DC with me.
1:10.0	We just had a second show at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC.
1:14.0	We're so excited about that.
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