This is a headgum podcast. Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes. I'm your host,

Boltser Senior Editor Jesse David Fox. Our guest this week is Mike

Vraviguilla. The comedian behind beloved shows, Sleep Walk With Me, my girlfriend's boyfriend,

thank God for joke, and the new one, currently on Broadway, as well as the director of

a film version of Sleep Walk With Me Me and the movie Don't Think Twice.

It's around the release of Don't Think Twice that I first met Mike when I profiled him for New York magazine.

Though this isn't a make into the piece, I was fascinated by how diligently he thought about all aspects of his comedy.

For example, we had like an hour-long conversation just about where he wanted to put the cameras to shoot the film version of Thank God for Joe.

And more than anything, Mike, who is known for his long-form storytelling, puts so much work into his

joke.

He might be telling a 14-minute story about something that really impacted him emotionally or psychologically,

but he sees every detail as an opportunity for Joe.

For this episode, we talk about the story

that was really a breakthrough for him

and this form, Celebrity Golf, from my secret public journal

live.

Before his one man shows came out, this is a joke that helped him nail down what

Mike Robiculate comedy really is.

And specifically, he's performing this, that Mike found the seven-word catchphrase of sorts that would go on to define all of his comedy.

I know, I'm in the future also.

So, here's Mike Riggeliff from 2007 telling his celebrity golf story,

followed by Mike and I in 2018, celebrity golf story,

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