BEST OF WIO: Jessi Klein

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jessi Klein: This Is the Reason For Comedy (Recorded July 2022) 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.”

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0:00.0	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	Welcome back to Working It Out. That is the voice of the great Jesse Klein.
0:16.0	You might know Jesse Klein. If you saw Sleepwalk with me,
0:20.0	she's the person who sprays me with tomato sauce and puts a pizza pillow around my neck.
0:25.0	That is not what she's most well known for. She is a brilliant writer, actor, stand-up comedian,
0:32.0	someone I've known forever. We're re-earing this episode from last year because it's one of our,
0:38.0	working it out favorites. And also, Jesse's book has been nominated for a pen award.
0:45.0	Her book is called I'll Show Myself Out. I love this book. I couldn't recommend this book more highly.
0:51.0	It is on the long list for the pen. This is a long one.
0:55.0	Pen, diamond, steam, spiel, vocal, horned. That's harder than Berbiglia.
1:02.0	For the art of the essay along with David Sideras and a bunch of other brilliant folks.
1:07.0	Anyway, we have, we discussed the book here on the episode. I've known Jesse forever.
1:12.0	I was thrilled that she came onto the show and I think you're going to love this one.
1:18.0	Oh, by the way, I'm on tour. A couple of dates I'm making up from the fall.
1:23.0	Mesa, Arizona on March 16th, Salt Lake City on March 17th.
1:28.0	Only a few tickets left. I'm going to be doing some working out sort of new material shows in the spring.
1:34.0	And I have just a few cities sign up for my mailing list on Berbiglia.com.
1:40.0	That is how you will be the first to find out about those shows.
1:45.0	And enjoy my conversation with a great Jesse Klein.
2:01.0	I think one of the extraordinary things about your career, and I always use you as an example
2:06.0	when people are like, I want to go into show business.
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