Mike Birbiglia: 7/26/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, actor, writer, and filmmaker. His latest film, produced alongside This American Life's Ira Glass, is Don't Think Twice and is out for limited release this week. Today, Mike talks about workshopping the script for Don't Think Twice (5:00), how he absorbs story notes (16:00), and how fatherhood changed his priorities and his writing (23:00). Plus, Mike discusses how he tries to find a balance between being selfish and selfless (30:00) and how long the good feeling of making people laugh actually lasts (43:00). Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Leave a Review: itunes.com/themoment The Moment is brought to you by Freshbooks. Small business owners, FreshBooks wants to make dealing with your day-to- day paperwork ridiculously simple and quick. For your 30 day free trial, and all the simple and quick cloud accounting you can handle, go to FreshBooks.com/MOMENT and enter MOMENT in the “how did you hear about us” section. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey, this is the moment, I'm Brian Koppelman.
0:11.8	Thanks for listening. So I believe that there have been two people
0:17.5	who have been repeat, four or five people have come through the studio for a second time.
0:23.9	Like Dan Soder got to come back because there was a big Jay Ogersen
0:27.9	controversy that just couldn't be settled without
0:30.7	highly dramatic.
0:31.5	Without Dan in the room.
0:32.8	Yes, yes.
0:33.8	And Levine came in when we had Mullen Ackerman on, but
0:38.3	and Goldman came for five minutes once before a podcast
0:41.2	because he had a special that he was promoting but but essentially
0:44.1	Tim Ferris Seth Godin and now today's guest who is coming back for the second time
0:51.9	on the moment,
0:53.3	the great comedian, filmmaker, dad,
0:57.6	one man show creator and star,
1:01.3	and my friend, Mike Brubiglia.
1:03.7	That's how you pronounce it right?
1:05.9	It is Brubiglia.
1:07.3	And filmmaker, right?
1:08.4	That's the new one.
1:09.8	I left out filmmaker?
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