77. Joe Birbiglia: Who Doesn’t Like Free Stuff?

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes his longtime collaborator and lifelong brother Joe Birbiglia. They discuss what it’s like to work together as family—from differentiating between work and family phone calls to Joe being mistaken for Mike at the merch table. Joe explains the differences between “Joe Bags” the character and Joe in real life and Joe and tells his story of trying to break into the comedy world in the early 2000s, crossing paths with The Onion and The Daily Show. Plus, a fly-on-the-wall joke writing session that mirrors the way Mike and Joe write together in real life. Please consider donating to The Rhode Island Food Community Bank

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0:00.0	What's different about the Joey Baguadona's
0:03.5	Joe Barbiglia character in the Specialist and you in real life?
0:08.5	Yeah.
0:09.9	And what's real? What's not real?
0:12.4	I mean, look, we all like free stuff.
0:14.7	Right.
0:17.7	Welcome back to Working It Out.
0:19.5	That is the voice, of course, of my brother,
0:23.2	the great Joe Barbiglia, Joseph Barbiglia.
0:27.6	He and I, we've been brothers since my birth.
0:33.0	He's a few years older than me.
0:34.8	And he's a hilarious person.
0:38.7	He's a great writer.
0:40.4	He was a screenwriter on my film.
0:42.6	Sleepwalk with me.
0:43.5	He's the producer of all of my comedy specials and my movies.
0:48.5	He runs my production company.
0:50.5	We've worked together for years and years and years.
0:54.1	And we have a great conversation today.
0:55.6	I actually, I think neither of us knew how it would go.
1:00.0	I think we're both like, what'll this be?
1:03.5	I don't know.
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