Before Mike Birbiglia became a father, Judd Apatow cast him as one. “He cast me as a dad before my life did,” Birbiglia, who played Amy Schumer’s schlubby, suburban brother-in-law in the movie Trainwreck, explains on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. After spending the whole day fielding improvised insults from Schumer on set, Birbiglia jokes that he would come home and tell his wife Jen, who writes poetry under the name J.