About Mike Birbiglia: Mike Birbiglia is an American comedian, writer, actor, and director.
I consider Lena Dunham a comedian.
I was raised Catholic, and then I kind of wandered away somewhere in high-school. I never got confirmed, which is a big deal.
I'm incapable of feeling any joy.
In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.
My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir and the lia, I'll just be Big.
Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.
People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.
Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.
Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.
The economy of film forces you to make choices.
You have to be delusional to be a comedian.
People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal.
Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.
Prose is all about embellishing and describing.
Sometimes my fans are too nice.
The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.
When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.
I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.
When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using all my undergraduate film writing amateur expertise of 'don't direct on the page' because someone else was going to direct this. ...
I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.
