Jimmy Carr: Life is Better With Laughter
Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right. So I finished your book last night. I loved it. |
| 0:07.0 | I mean, this is great. This is, and you think listeners should buy the book. Is that what |
| 0:13.0 | you're saying? That's the subtext. Wait a second. Wait a minute. No. No. No. I don't. |
| 0:20.0 | I after careful consideration of the entire episode, I think they should make a decision on their own. |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah. So I wrote a book in lockdown because it was that or a podcast. And I think |
| 0:31.0 | at a book would be more dignified. Some offense. My. Some offense. |
| 0:37.0 | But, you know, it's lovely to be on your on your podcast on your very nearly radio show. |
| 0:43.0 | That is the voice of the great Jimmy Carr Jimmy wrote a phenomenal book. This is we were rearing |
| 0:58.0 | this. This is the best of episode from a year ago when that book came out. It's Jimmy Carr |
| 1:04.0 | before and after a life changing book. I love this book. I have to say like, you know, |
| 1:10.0 | a lot of a lot of Jimmy's approach to comedy is sort of roasting and saying mean things, |
| 1:17.0 | but actually it's it's it's a great book. And it's about the relationship between comedy |
| 1:25.0 | and jokes and life and kind of going to dark places to experience the catharsis. And it's his |
| 1:34.0 | philosophy. And we talk about it in the episode a lot today is philosophies on this stuff are very, |
| 1:40.0 | very thought through and when we play this originally a year ago, we got a ton of positive |
| 1:47.0 | feedback on it, which is great. And that's why we're playing it again today in case you missed it. |
| 1:53.0 | We made the big announcement. I've been typing up this announcement for probably four or five months at this point. |
| 2:02.0 | The old man in the pool is going a Broadway. I was on the tonight show last week. I announced it with |
| 2:08.0 | Jimmy Fallon. You can see that on YouTube. We're going to be I'm going to be at the Vivian |
| 2:13.0 | Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center starting October 28th through Christmas. All of those tickets |
| 2:19.0 | are on sale for those 70 shows. Tickets start at $48. I'm actually I'm saying 48. |
| 2:29.0 | Originally I said 39, but then it's like with fees. It's 48. I hate these fees. I wish that they weren't |
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