Mike Birbiglia is an American stand-up comedian, actor, storyteller, director, producer and writer.
33 Facts About Mike Birbiglia
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Mike Birbiglia is a frequent contributor to This American Life and The Moth, and has released several comedy albums and television specials.
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Mike Birbiglia wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy-drama Don't Think Twice.
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Mike Birbiglia's 2010 book Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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Mike Birbiglia replaced Jimmy Kimmel on his talk show for a week, as Kimmel caught COVID-19.
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Mike Birbiglia was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Jean, a nurse, and Vincent Paul Mike Birbiglia, a doctor.
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Mike Birbiglia is partially of Italian descent and was raised Catholic.
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Mike Birbiglia attended the all-boys Catholic school St John's High School for one year, and graduated from St Mark's School in 1996.
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Mike Birbiglia says seeing comedian Steven Wright perform inspired him to begin writing jokes at age 16.
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Mike Birbiglia subsequently attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC, graduating in 2000.
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Mike Birbiglia's sister was able to get him an interview on Conan O'Brien's show as an intern, where he worked for associate producer Jordan Schlansky.
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Mike Birbiglia moved to New York in 2000, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2002.
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Mike Birbiglia told his first story on stage at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, in 2003, and eventually became a semi-regular contributor to The Moth storytelling series.
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Mike Birbiglia released his first album, Dog Years, in 2004, followed by My Secret Public Album, Volume 1a a compilation of his appearances on The Bob and Tom Show.
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In 2008, Mike Birbiglia opened Sleepwalk with Me, a one-man show that straddled standup comedy and theater, off-Broadway at the Bleecker Street Theater.
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Mike Birbiglia adapted his material into the 2010 book Sleepwalk with Me, and Other Painfully True Stories and the 2011 album Sleepwalk With Me Live.
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Mike Birbiglia made his directorial debut with Sleepwalk with Me, based on his one-man show and which he wrote, directed, and starred in.
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The event, specifically the joke and what transpired after it, later formed a large part of Mike Birbiglia's show, Thank God for Jokes.
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Mike Birbiglia has guest-starred in episodes of Girls, Inside Amy Schumer, and Broad City.
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Mike Birbiglia played the role of Oscar Langstraat in the third and fifth seasons of Showtime's hit show Billions and Danny Pearson on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black in its third and fourth seasons, with which he shared the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
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In 2011, Mike Birbiglia mounted his second one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, which ran for four months off-Broadway and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show.
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Mike Birbiglia toured My Girlfriend's Boyfriend around the world with tour dates in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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On June 2,2013, Mike Birbiglia performed it for the last time at Carnegie Hall.
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Mike Birbiglia's Thank God for Jokes comedy special was released on Netflix on February 28,2017.
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The podcast features Mike Birbiglia analyzing his old stand-up with guests including his brother Joe Birbiglia, comedians Pete Holmes and John Mulaney, film producer and director Judd Apatow, contributor to 'This American Life' Ira Glass and his wife.
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In March 2020, Mike Birbiglia created a charity initiative called "Tip Your Waitstaff" with fellow comics to raise money for comedy clubs closed because of COVID-19.
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Mike Birbiglia is a regular contributor to the Public Radio International-distributed program This American Life.
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Mike Birbiglia temporarily replaced Jimmy Kimmel for a brief while in 2022, as Kimmel recovered from COVID-19.
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In 2022, Mike Birbiglia premiered his show titled The Old Man and the Pool at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where it ran from April 28 to May 22.
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Mike Birbiglia later opened the show on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, where it ran from November 13,2022 to January 15,2023.
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Mike Birbiglia has rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, which once caused him to run out of a second-story window of a motel he was staying in Walla Walla, Washington while on tour.
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Mike Birbiglia's show and subsequent film Sleepwalk with Me largely centers around this event.
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Mike Birbiglia had a tumor on his bladder at the age of 19.