Q&A: Mike Answers Voicemails About Comedy Advice and Crying Babies at Shows

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

For this all-new Working It Out Q&A, Mike fields listener questions about people fainting at his shows, how to write comedy about topics that are painful to you, and balancing a day job and creative life when starting out. If your question didn’t get answered on this week’s Q&A, stay tuned for another one soon where Mike answers the rest! Got a new question? Email [email protected] with a VoiceMemo asking your question.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It is Mike Barbiglia, and we're back with an episode of working it out.
0:13.8	We are trying a new thing today. We asked on my Instagram stories, if you don't follow me over there, it's at for Biggs.
0:22.1	And we asked for questions, audio questions.
0:25.5	We've done some Q&As in the past.
0:27.3	And today we just decided to have people send the audio
0:31.1	to Working It Out Pod at gmail.com.
0:34.7	If you're anywhere near New York City this week,
0:37.3	it is the finale of my show, The Good Life.
0:41.0	I've been working on it for two years.
0:42.7	I've been on tour with it as Please Stop the Ride.
0:46.4	And the final version is called The Good Life six nights at the Beacon Theater, March 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22. All right, let's go to the questions.
1:02.5	This first one is from Meredith Greenstein.
1:11.6	Hi, Mike. I'm a huge fan of yours and a frequent listener of working it out.
1:15.9	Excited to come see you at the Beacon.
1:18.2	My questions for you are if you could have any historical figure on working it out, who would it be?
1:23.7	And what are your biggest pieces of advice for an aspiring comic?
1:29.2	Okay.
1:30.4	I think maybe the person who I'm most fascinated with from the past would is Charlie Chaplin.
1:38.4	I think that when I, Jenny and Una and I still watch a lot of Charlie Chaplin.
1:46.1	And there's this incredible thing on, I think, Amazon Prime,
1:49.9	where if you look up Charlie Chaplin,
1:51.3	there's like a series of documentaries of how they made these movies.
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