Mike Birbiglia Returns: Comedy, Truth and ‘The Old Man and the Pool’
When a special arrives on Netflix in its finished form, viewers don’t typically get to see all of the excruciating work that went into making it a polished piece. But for anyone who has been listening to Birbiglia’s Working It Out podcast over the past couple of years, it’s all there. “I was doing it privately,” he says on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “I feel like it’s something that’s kind of unspoken about stand-up, that for the most part, we are in communities of comedians who kick around joke tags: ‘Hey, what if you did this with it?’ And ‘I have a similar story about this, and you know you could use that if you want to,’ or whatever it is. And we kind of just put it out there with audio rolling.” In his second appearance on The Last Laugh, Birbiglia talks about how this process helped shape his latest Broadway show-turned-Netflix special ‘The Old Man and the Pool,’ shares his thoughtful response to the “emotional truth” controversy that came for his friend and fellow comic Hasan Minhaj, breaks down how he handles criticism of his own work, and a lot more.
Follow Mike Birbiglia on Twitter @birbigs and Instagram @birbigs
Follow Matt Wilstein on Threads @mattwilstein
Follow The Last Laugh on Instagram @lastlaughpod and Threads @lastlaughpod
Highlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
View all episodes
4.5
634634 ratings
When a special arrives on Netflix in its finished form, viewers don’t typically get to see all of the excruciating work that went into making it a polished piece. But for anyone who has been listening to Birbiglia’s Working It Out podcast over the past couple of years, it’s all there. “I was doing it privately,” he says on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast. “I feel like it’s something that’s kind of unspoken about stand-up, that for the most part, we are in communities of comedians who kick around joke tags: ‘Hey, what if you did this with it?’ And ‘I have a similar story about this, and you know you could use that if you want to,’ or whatever it is. And we kind of just put it out there with audio rolling.” In his second appearance on The Last Laugh, Birbiglia talks about how this process helped shape his latest Broadway show-turned-Netflix special ‘The Old Man and the Pool,’ shares his thoughtful response to the “emotional truth” controversy that came for his friend and fellow comic Hasan Minhaj, breaks down how he handles criticism of his own work, and a lot more.
Follow Mike Birbiglia on Twitter @birbigs and Instagram @birbigs
Follow Matt Wilstein on Threads @mattwilstein
Follow The Last Laugh on Instagram @lastlaughpod and Threads @lastlaughpod
Highlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More shows like The Last Laugh
View allWTF with Marc Maron Podcast
28,463 Listeners
You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes
8,572 Listeners
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
3,478 Listeners
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
1,453 Listeners
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
57,850 Listeners
Inside Conan: An Important Hollywood Podcast
1,572 Listeners
The Three Questions with Andy Richter
3,514 Listeners
Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
4,047 Listeners
SmartLess
56,497 Listeners
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
1,723 Listeners
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
12,154 Listeners
Blocks w/ Neal Brennan
1,139 Listeners
Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers
2,349 Listeners
Senses Working Overtime with David Cross
426 Listeners
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
2,416 Listeners