Mike Birbiglia Quotes About Comedy
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I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
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Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.
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I think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing something else then in the next few years." I dunno, it almost feels hackneyed at this point. To start a premise by saying, "I did this awkward thing." But then again, awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
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I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
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What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
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Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.
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I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.
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I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.
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To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.
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Sometimes when I do a joke and it doesn't get a lot of laughs, it kind of feels like I'm doing jazz. That's kinda cool because jazz is cool, but sometimes jazz sucks ... Maybe I'm the Kenny G of comedy.
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When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City to see the classic 'Paradigm Lost' revue - with Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Scott Adsit and Kevin Dorff. It blew my mind, and proved to me you can do sketch comedy like you're doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night.' We could treat it like theater.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
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The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.
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I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.
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The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
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Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
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I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.
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