89. Chris Redd: How to Express Your Mind on Stage

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Mike and Chris Redd first met when they appeared in the movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Since then they’ve become friends in the world of stand-up comedy. Today they break down how to express ADHD, depression, and anxiety through comedy and how Chris arrived at the material for his new HBO special “Why Am I Like This?” Chris and Mike also discuss the relationship between hip-hop and comedy, the mechanics of crowd work, and why there’s a playlist for everything.

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0:00.0	Your special is so good.
0:02.0	Some of the specials should not be specials out there.
0:05.0	No, man. It should just be, you know what?
0:07.0	They should have a category called,
0:09.0	I'm just dropping some shit off.
0:11.0	It's not a special.
0:13.0	It's just like, we just dropping some shit off for a good.
0:16.0	These are some thoughts I had.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	They're not fully fleshed.
0:19.0	Let's come up with the name for that.
0:21.0	Yeah, it's mid. It's called mid.
0:23.0	Mid.
0:24.0	You heard it here, I'm working out.
0:26.0	It's mid.
0:27.0	Yeah, drop the mid, drop the mid special.
0:30.0	Mid special.
0:31.0	That's a mid special.
0:32.0	Yeah, it was a mid special.
0:33.0	It was pretty good for a mid special.
0:34.0	Yeah, and then if it's great, it's like, damn.
0:36.0	It should do a real special.
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