Someone said to me at a party once, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re a comedian? Then how come you’re not funny now?’ And I just wanted to say, ‘Well, I’m just going to take this conversation we’re having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that’s the joke. You’re the joke later.’ — Mike Birbiglia
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Mike Birbiglia : American Comedian
Born: June 20, 1978
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Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else sa…
Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to su…
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party …
You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hang…
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come…
Someone once asked, ‘What’s your best pickup line?’ I said, …
Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else sa…
Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to su…
Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party …
You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hang…
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come…
I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I ca…
Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health wa…
I said, ‘Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.’ He said, ‘Where?…
My dad said to me growing up: ‘When all is said and done, if…
Feynman once said, ‘Science is imagination in a straitjacket…
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a t…
Yeah. I’ve been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all arou…
Yeah, I miss it. You don’t just break off a friendship you’v…
I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new conc…
I’m like, ‘Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I cha…
Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so…
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the …
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was – I felt so h…
Yeah, but there’s nobody who represents romance to me like C…
