Mike Answers Your Questions About Creativity and Discusses The Emmys

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week Mike answers listener questions. Does improv help your stand-up? What was your most nightmarish stand-up set? How do you convince yourself to keep going when it’s not going well? Plus, Mike reads a piece he wrote about his complicated but ultimately rewarding experience at the Emmys.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to working it out. This is Mike Brabiglia. We are doing a very special thing this week. We are doing a very special thing this week. We're doing a audience,
0:14.4	Q&A with you. I'm answering your questions. We have had a
0:20.5	bunch of phenomenal guests lately. If you haven't caught the
0:24.0	podcast lately, we had Jack Antonoff, Mateo Lane, John Laster,
0:28.9	Zach Braff, Ashley B, Hannah Burner, Stephen Merchant,
0:32.9	the list goes on and on.
0:33.9	We've just had a great, great run of guests.
0:37.6	And they are all in full on YouTube.
0:41.2	The YouTube channel is at Mike Burbiglia and yeah and I said this a few weeks ago but I was going to talk about my experience at the Emmys today. I've never gone to the Emmys. I went to the Emmys today I've never gone to the Emmys I went to the Emmys I wrote a whole
0:55.5	reflective piece about it that I sent out to my mailing list I send out if you don't get the mailing
1:01.1	list if you don't sign up onbergrais.com you should sign up.
1:04.4	It's very infrequent. I send out maybe one a month so probably 10 or 12 a year and I'll usually
1:11.9	sort of reflect on the tour or the process or you know where I am in terms of my head space and my creative output and how it's all going and so I talked in the last email about
1:27.3	about the Emmys and going to the Emmys which is a very strange and unique experience
1:31.9	So we're gonna answer a few questions and So we're going to answer a few questions,
1:34.0	and then we're going to circle back to that,
1:36.0	answer a few more questions, and then that's going to be the episode today.
1:39.0	It's a short episode in between two phenomenal guests on the pod.
1:45.0	So the first question comes from Analisa Ray.
1:51.0	And the question is, what do you think sets apart a good comedian from a great one?
1:56.2	Analisa, that is a great question, not a good one.
2:00.6	It is something I think about often and I think it's obviously look it's objective
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