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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ray Romano: Sometimes the Setup is the Punchline (Recorded May 2023) Ray Romano has an iconic sitcom and a celebrated stand-up career under his belt, so what drives him to keep challenging himself artistically? Mike and Ray, who often follow each other at the Comedy Cellar, ponder the complicated answer to that question. Plus, discussion of comedy craft, joke-writing technique, and the two separate times Ray was held up at gunpoint.

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0:00.0	Did he ever say I love you before he died?
0:03.0	He did not and he, my father's father left him when he was two years old.
0:10.4	So he had his, my father had his own thing. Yeah. So I don't I don't fault him for being who he was you know he just he tried and he couldn't but I remember
0:22.4	Towards the end when we kind of knew you know probably in the next year we wouldn't have him with us anymore
0:28.7	And I remember he was in the hospital here and I you know of course at that moment I I wanted to say it so I said I'm going to like I
0:36.7	I love you dad and his response was I know you do oh my god it. Yeah. I can't take it.
0:44.0	I can't take it.
0:47.0	That is the voice of the great Ray Romano.
0:54.3	We are re-running this episode today because it was one of my favorites from last year and his
1:00.8	movie that he wrote, directed, and and started which is called Somewhere in Queens
1:05.5	is now streaming on Hulu so it's available wherever you are.
1:11.0	Ray is one of my favorite comedians of all time, so funny and he's also just very
1:16.0	wise. He has seen and done so much. I should point out that we just added more shows to the Please Stop the Ride Tour.
1:24.8	That's my 2024 tour that began in Boston.
1:29.6	Keep in mind, this is all different material
1:31.9	than the old man in the pool.
1:33.0	It is an all new hour that is currently titled,
1:36.0	Please Stop the Ride.
1:37.0	We just added a second show at the Chicago Theater.
1:42.0	We also just added Tulsa. Tulsa Oklahoma, I have never been there before.
1:47.0	Sterling Hard Joe, who is a guest on the show and many other folks have told me, you gotta go to Tulsa.
1:53.6	So I'm going there.
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