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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Each week on Funny Cuz It’s True, Elyse Meyers sits down with her favorite creators, friends and comedians to find the stories that have stuck with them and changed their lives in small ways. Mike Birbiglia’s stories about his life are the epitome of “funny ‘cuz they’re true.” He joins Elyse to talk about his new Broadway show “The Old Man and The Pool,” and how he makes a show about death and mortality funny. Mike gets into his creative process around joke writing, like how he got underneath the meaning behind a joke about his car accident and a drunk driver, and also tells Elyse why he thinks performing comedy is like stripping. To hear more of Funny Cuz It’s True, head to https://link.chtbl.com/funnycuzitstruewithelysemyers

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Mike Burpiglia. I am so excited to be sharing with you today an episode
0:12.2	of Elise Myers' podcast, which is called Funny, because it's true with Elise Myers. Elise's
0:19.0	episode of Working It Out was a fan favorite. People are, I have loved it, it's on YouTube
0:26.4	now. She is a great storyteller. She's someone who I actually discovered originally from
0:33.8	TikTok and Instagram, and then I became a fan of her podcast, and then I was on her podcast.
0:40.0	And then this is it today. I want to share it with you, because it's such an original
0:46.8	show. It's, her style and things like that. Instagram is very original, it's very meta.
0:52.8	She tells stories, but then she talks about, she steps outside of the stories to say what
0:56.6	she's thinking in the moment of when the story is happening and how she feels about now
1:01.7	and how she feels about then. And she does that in the interview as well in her podcast,
1:07.0	which I just love. It's a podcast where she talks to creators, friends, comedians, similar
1:12.7	to Working It Out, but of course with Elise's original spin. In the episode you're about
1:18.0	to hear, she asked me how I got into comedy. How have you storytelling to process darker
1:22.6	moments in my life and turn them into comedy? And why I have a card behind me in my studio
1:28.6	with the words Rosemary Chabata. It's a great conversation. If you listen to the Working
1:34.7	It Out episode with Elise, in some ways it's the part two of this part one, which is I'm
1:39.8	really trying to convince her to get on stage and tell stories on stage, because I love
1:46.1	what she does online and on her podcast. And I think that she would have an amazing, amazing
1:51.8	time performing for audiences. And I think audiences would love it. For more episodes
1:57.2	of Funny Cause It's True, search for the show wherever you get your podcast or click
2:02.0	the link in the episode notes. Enjoy. Why do I love telling stories? Great question.
2:15.4	I would love to tell you. I've always been a storyteller by nature. It's because I'm
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