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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

76. Jessi Klein: This Is the Reason For Comedy

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Interviews, Iraglass, Dontthinktwice, Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Sleepwalkwithme, Mikebirbiglia, Comedy Interviews, Thankgodforjokes, Comedy, Birbiglia, Thenewone

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jessi Klein is an Emmy-award winning comedian, writer, actor, and author, with a resume that includes Inside Amy Schumer, Saturday Night Live, Transparent, Kroll Show, and the voice of Jessi Glaser on Big Mouth. On top of all that, WIO listeners may remember her from Mike’s film Sleepwalk With Me where her character places a pizza pillow around Mike’s neck and then sprays him with tomato sauce. In this episode the two old friends punch up jokes and discuss why writing about being a parent can be a third rail subject. They also go deep on Jessi’s New York Times-bestselling book “I’ll Show Myself Out” and Jessi explains why the title of two of her book chapters are “In Defense of Drinking” and “Your Husband Will Remarry Five Minutes After You Die.”

Transcript

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Jesse, you and I have known each other for approximately 80 to 100 years.

0:05.0

Yes, the length of a full person's life.

0:07.0

Hey everybody, we are back.

0:14.0

That is of course the voice of the great Jesse Klein, one of my favorite comedic voices,

0:20.0

comedians, comedic actors, actors, voice actors.

0:25.0

You may know her from her voice on Big Mouth, which I love from my buddy Nick Kroll.

0:33.0

She has written for Inside Amy Schumer and Vanessa Bayer show.

0:38.0

I love that for you, which is great.

0:40.0

She was in sleepwalk with me.

0:42.0

She sprayed me with a hose of tomato sauce and put a pizza pillow around my neck,

0:48.0

if you remember that scene from sleepwalk with me.

0:51.0

I wonder for a long time, which is why we have this great conversation today.

0:55.0

We talk about her book.

0:57.0

It's called I'll show myself out.

0:59.0

She is a two-time New York Times bestselling author.

1:02.0

I love her new book.

1:04.0

Before we begin, I just want to throw out that I'm going to be in Sag Harbor, New York,

1:09.0

with my new show, The Old Man of the Pool.

1:12.0

And then the world premiere of The Old Man of the Pool will be at the Mark Tape Forum

1:16.0

in Los Angeles for five weeks late July through August with the full lights and sound

1:23.0

and design and the design is really, really cool.

1:26.0

I'm going to be in the fall in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toronto for four shows.

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