Hey, everybody. It's Mike Berbiglia. We are doing a question and answer this week. We answered

your questions about craft and writing and stand-up comedy and creativity. And also about my upcoming show. We just announced that I'm going to be doing the finale of my show at the Beacon Theater, March 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd. And the final title of the show is The Good Life, which leads me into the first question, which is someone, William B. says, is your Beacon show the same show that I saw at the Beacon Theater last year?

This is a big answer that applies to the entire tour.

So the tour, which has been the last roughly two years,

since Old Man in the Pool, has been called a bunch of different things.

Mike Barbigley Alive, Please Stop the Ride, which is currently I'm touring under that name.

And Christmas Parmesan was what we called it in Boston,

which was a reference to the old man in the pool joke about Christmas Parmesan. And the final

title is The Good Life. So if you've seen me in the last two years and it isn't the old man in the

pool, chances are it is material, stories, jokes, etc., from what will

be the good life. So when people ask me, like, for example, I saw you at the beacon last year,

will it be different from that show? Yeah, I would say probably 50% different. If someone said to me,

is it different from the Boston shows in

2023 in December, I would say 60% different, maybe 70% different. Basically what it is. And

stand-up comedy is just a unique art form where it's sort of a reverse engineered art form, kind of the opposite of like a rock

band or a musician or an author where they're working on something in the studio or writing a book

for years and years. And then they release the book or they release the album and then they

tour and perform songs or excerpts from the book or they release the album and then they tour and perform

songs or excerpts from the book or the album with stand-up comedy it's just the reverse it's

like i'm out there and i'm performing stories and jokes and kind of sculpting what will

become the album and it's interesting because it's, you know, I wrote about this.

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