Mike Birbiglia is keeping comedy alive over Zoom
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Zach and Carly break down what's happening with our stock market. Comedian Mike Birbiglia joins the podcast to talk about current politics, crafting live comedy in the pandemic, and what he's learned about America after years on the road.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So you started doing zooms for a thousand people a number of months ago and I must have been a real adaptation |
| 0:06.0 | I'm just gonna try and clip from you and maybe there are some folks who are watching this that I actually want to like |
| 0:10.4 | What are the best practices if you're actually going to do a |
| 0:15.2 | Zoom comedy show for a thousand people because that must be a lift. It's not that hard |
| 0:20.2 | It's just a lot of legwork up front and then basically it's |
| 0:26.6 | Don't touch anything |
| 0:28.6 | Once you have the lighting in place and your levels are in place just don't touch it |
| 0:33.9 | But yeah, and and I have to say like |
| 0:36.9 | My friend Sam Marillo is a comedian. He's the one who said you should try it and the reason and the convincing argument |
| 0:43.6 | This is way back in June |
| 0:46.4 | I was like, ah doesn't seem like it's for me feels like a hell gig to use the word that I used in my vulture article and |
| 0:53.2 | He said he goes, you know, it's really interesting. He goes |
| 0:56.7 | The people who show up aren't just people who are homebound |
| 1:02.9 | From COVID there are people who are homebound |
| 1:07.1 | Just from medical conditions in their life to begin with who would never go to a comedy show ever |
| 1:14.7 | And I thought oh well that's reason enough. I mean I then I should try to |
| 1:20.5 | Prick your argument. Yeah, I mean I should try to crack this because if we're if there's a whole group of people who have medical |
| 1:27.2 | Conditions that are keeping them away from live performance. Let me let's try to crack live performance |
| 1:53.2 | Welcome back to Yang speaks today. We've got an incredibly exciting episode |
| 2:01.4 | We've got Mike for biglia the comedian on which I love my after meetings on because you know |
| 2:07.3 | It's gonna be funny. So you guys are gonna have a blast to sit back at and have a good laugh with Andrew. I know you will enjoy it |
| 2:16.0 | But first I |
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