Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia (born June 20, 1978) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer.

He has appeared on This American Life and The Moth as a regular contributor, and has released several comedy books and television specials.

Sleepwalk with Me (2012), his feature-length directorial debut, based on his one-man show of the same name and in which he also appeared, received awards at the Sundance and Nantucket film festivals.

Don't Think Twice (2016) was also written, directed, and starred.

Sleepwalk with Me and Other Tragically True Stories, a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor, was his 2010 book Sleepwalk with Me and Other Beautiful Tales.

Birbiglia has appeared in films such as Your Sister's Sister (2011), Cedar Rapids (2011), and Trainwreck (2015), and Orange Is the New Black's recurring role, and she has appeared in episodes of Girls, Inside Amy Schumer, and Broad City.

Early life and education

Birbiglia was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and she and Mary Jean (née McKenzie), a nurse, and Vincent Paul Birbiglia, a doctor. He is the youngest of four children. He is a member of Italian descent and was raised Catholic. Birbiglia attended St. John's Catholic High School for one year and graduated from St. Mark's School in 1996. He says seeing comedian Steven Wright perform inspired him to start writing jokes at age 16. He then attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 2000. He appeared as a server in a comedy club and began performing at The Improv in Washington, D.C. During college, he performed as a member of the Georgetown Players Improv Troupe and started as a server in a comedy club and began performing at DC Improv (The Improv).

Personal life

Birbiglia has a rapid eye movement sleep disorder disorder, which had caused him to run out of a second-story window of a hotel where he was staying in Walla Walla, Washington, when on tour. Birbiglia's leg was stitched up in 33 stitches as a result of the accident. At the age of 19, he had a tumor on his bladder.

Birbiglia is married to Jen Stein, whose pen name is J. Hope Stein, whose work is included in The New One, is on display. They have one daughter, Oona.

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Career

Birbiglia's first appearance in 1997 was an improvement. Conan O'Brien's show as an intern, where he worked with associate producer Jordan Schlansky, was able to interview him. Birbiglia joined New York in 2000 and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2002. On stage in the United States, he related to his first encounter. In 2003, the Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, became a semi-regular contributor to The Moth storytelling collection. In 2004, he released Dog Years, his first album, followed by My Secret Public Album, Volume 1a (2005), a collection of his appearances on The Bob and Tom Show. On Comedy Central Records, Mike Paul's next two albums, Two Drink Mike (2006) and My Secret Public Journal Live (2007) were released. By The A.V., My Secret Public Journal Live was voted one of the best comedy albums of the decade.

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CBS picked up a sitcom pilot loosely based on Birbiglia's life and starring himself, Bob Odenkirk, and Frances Conroy, but it never aired. The pilot's death was "the luckiest thing that ever happened to me," he later said.

Birbiglia opened Sleepwalk with Me, a one-man performance that straddled stand-up comedy and theater, off-Broadway at the Bleecker Street Theater in 2008. Nathan Lane hosted the show, and The New York Times called it "simply flawless." Time Out In 2009, Time Out New York named it as their "Show of the Year" in New York.

Birbiglia adapted his content into the 2010 book Sleepwalk With Me, Other Tragically True Stories, and the 2011 album Sleepwalk With Me Live. The book debuted at #29 on the hardcover nonfiction bestseller list and at number four on the Washington Post's hardcover nonfiction best Sellers list. The book was also a finalist for the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor. The Billboard Comedy Charts ranked Sleepwalk With Me Live at number one on the Billboard Comedy Charts.

Birbiglia's debut with Sleepwalk with Me, based on his one-man show and which he wrote, directed, and starred in. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and received the NEXT Audience Award. It was chosen in the "Festival Favorites" category at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin, Texas, and later in the Nantucket Film Festival, where it received the award for best writer/director. The film was produced by Jacob Jaffke and This American Life's Ira Glass, Benjamin Ambrose, Carol Kane, James Rebhorn, and Cristin Milioti, with cameos from Glass, Kristen Schaal, Wyatt Cenac, Jessi Klein, John Lutz, and Marc Maron. Birbiglia blasted I Heart Huckabees director David O. Russell for reading a transcript of Russell's on-set argument with actress Lily Tomlin during the 2012 Gotham Awards. Thank God for Jokes later became a large part of Birbiglia's performance, particularly the joke and what transpired after it.

Birbiglia has appeared in films including Trainwreck, Going the Distance, Cedar Rapids, Your Sister's Sister, and The Fault in Our Stars, in addition to acting in Sleepwalk with Me. In addition, he has appeared in episodes of Girls, Inside Amy Schumer, and Broad City. In the third and fourth seasons of Showtime's hit show Billions and Danny Pearson's Netflix show Orange Is the New Black's third and fourth seasons, he accepted the 2016 Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Birbiglia's Boyfriend, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, ran off-Broadway for four months and received the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Exhibition in 2011. With tour dates in Australia, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, he toured My Girlfriend's Boyfriend around the world. Birbiglia performed it at Carnegie Hall for the final time on June 2, 2013. Vulture, Paste, The Laugh Button, and Laughspin all featured My Girlfriend's Boyfriend as the top one stand-up special of 2013. It was also voted one of Time Out New York's Best Comedy Specials of 2013. The special was named one of the top 20 funniest stand-up specials of all time by Flavorwire.

In Don't Think Twice (2016), a fictional Manhattan improv troupe, Birbiglia drew on his early experience with improv. Birbligia is also included in a cast that includes Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Kate Micucci, Tami Sagher, and Chris Gethard. The film was nominated for several awards, including the Critics' Choice Award for Best Comedy and the St. Louis Film Critics Association award for Best Comedy.

On February 28, 2017, Birbiglia's Thank God for Jokes comedy special was released on Netflix.

Birbiglia's new exhibition, The New One, opened in April 2017. The tour began with 25 towns and featured The Old Ones, a limited podcast that was released in December 2017. Mike Birbiglia, comedian Pete Holmes, comedian John Mulaney, film producer and director Judd Apatow, Ira Glass and his wife star, star Mike Birbiglia, joins guests including his brother Joe Birbiglia, comedian Pete Holmes and John Mulaney on the podcast. On July 26, the New One made its off-Broadway debut at the Cherry Lane Theatre on July 26 and was expected to run until August 2 due to a high demand for tickets that extended the show's run to and through August 26.

The show then received a Broadway transfer, with performances opening on October 25, 2018 and running at the Cort Theatre until January 20, 2019.

Birbiglia launched "Tip Your Waitstaff" with fellow comedians in March 2020 to raise money for comedy clubs that have closed due to COVID-19.

Birbiglia is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's national broadcasting program This American Life.

Jimmy Kimmel was briefly replaced by Birbiglia in 2022 as Kimmel recovered from COVID-19.

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