With his first feature coming out this Friday, Mike Birbiglia is already working on his follow-up. Like Sleepwalk With Me, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend is based on a one-man show of Mike's. (It's on tour this fall.) As Mike described it to Indiewire: "It's about how I basically decided to get married without believing in the idea of marriage…It's about giving up on the idea of being right on things." Even though the show My Girlfriend's Boyfriend is autobiographical, the film will not be, or at least it won't be completely. Most notably, the lead character is not a comedian but a journalist, which is a slight yet significant shift. [...]
Mike Birbiglia's latest (and very excellent) one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend is about to head out on the road. If you didn't get to see it during its Off Broadway run in NYC, your opportunity has arrived. It's a 27-date tour that takes him to all of comedy's biggest hotspots, from Tampa to Turlock, CA. Yes, it's a real town, I assume! In any case, check out his website for ticket info and see the full schedule below.
Has anyone ever been as glad not to be at the airport as you are while watching this clip of Mike Birbiglia's Late Show appearance from last Friday? Has anyone ever been as glad about anything as you are glad not to be at the airport right now? Has anyone ever been as anything about anything as you are glad not to be at the airport right now? Has anyone ever anythinged as anything as you are anything about not being anything?
On this week's episode of Low Standards, John and Matt welcome guests Mike and Jenny Birbiglia to discuss the 1983 Val Kilmer classic Real Genius. Mike and Jenny are superfans of the movie, claiming that it plays a big role in their relationship and that a Real Genius movie poster is hung proudly in their apartment. And can you blame them? This is prime Kilmer we're talking about.
For more from the lovely Mike Birbiglia, you've got a few options! If you're in NYC, you should go check out his one-man show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend. If you can read, you should check out his book Sleepwalk With [...]
In a relatively perplexing publicity stunt for Ultra Downy April Fresh, Mike Birbiglia is living in a window display at the 34th street Macy's for a week, starting this morning. You can watch him live on the internet here, if you can get the stream working, which I cannot. But I assume he is doing something hilarious that he will continue for seven straight days and nights. That's what they're paying him for, after all! Stay strong, Mike.
With the Internet and all its doohickies there must be 14 zillion ways to promote a movie yet Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass (aka Team Big Glass) are going old school. They're just going to be there. "Hey, come by this movie theater and hang out. Oh yeah, a movie will be playing? 'What movie?' you ask? Well, it's our movie but, seriously, we really just want to hang." If it were anymore grassroots it would be just signs written with the actual roots of grass.
Movie of our dreams Sleepwalk With Me, based on Mike Birbiglia's one-man show of the same title, has been acquired by IFC Films for a North American release. It's great news for Birbiglia and the moviegoing public, of course, but perhaps the most important consequence of this news is that we all have an excuse to make lots of awful sleep-related puns. I'll start us off: Don't sleep on this one, guys, 'cause I think it's going to be REM-tastic. I'm napsolutely gonna go zzzzsee it in theaters. (Your turn.)
This scene from the film version of Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me is a great expression of the eerily calm, perfectly logical nonsense of dreams. It's also worth listening to the radio version of the same story depicted in the clip for a fun comparison. And then put in your zip code to persuade some film distributors to pick up the movie for a wide release so we can all go see it instead of just (WAIT FOR IT OH GOD THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD) dreaming about it.
While Mike Birbiglia's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend enjoys it's run at the Barrow Street Theater, the comedian stopped by Gothamist to discusses comparisons between Girlfriend and his previous one-man show Sleepwalk With Me. While working with the late great Mitch Hedberg, Birbiglia realized for the first time the peculiar tension between giving the people what they want, and surprising them with new material that will actually strike them as funny. "I was opening for him, in central Pennsylvania at a theater, and it was all these superfans and they were just shouting like, BANANA!, or whatever joke they wanted to hear," the comedian says. "That's a paradox Mitch [...]
Mike Birbiglia's promotions for Sleepwalk With Meare getting pretty intense: "Birbiglia is the featured attraction in a joint promotion of Procter & Gamble Co.'s Downy fabric softener and Macy's Inc. bedding that will find him spending a week in a display window at Macy's Herald Square store in New York City. He'll talk with fans, interact online, and, it's planned, sleep."
This looks fun, right guys? Marc Maron is in it and he's acting! Sleepwalk With Me is based on Mike Birbiglia's one-man show and book of the same name and was co-written by the icon of glasses wearers everywhere Ira Glass. The film hits theaters on August 24th, so start taking sleeping pills in preparation. Oh, what's that? You don’t actually go sleepwalking with Mike; it's just a title? Never mind the pills then.
The SXSW comedy lineup is here, and incidentally, it's almost exactly the same as the invitation list for my dream wedding! (It's only missing Jughead from Archie Comics and Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn's characters from Wedding Crashers, because what's a dream wedding without crashers?) In addition to standup and improv galore, the schedule features live episodes of WTF, Comedy Bang Bang, Doug Loves Movies, You Made It Weird, and The Chris Gethard Show. As for the comedians themselves, there are almost too many great comics to name (for a start: Marc Maron, John Hodgman, Kristen Schaal, Mike Birbiglia, Amy Schumer, Eugene Mirman, TJ Miller, Reggie Watts, Kumail Nanjiani), [...]
Here's some more information about the films at Sundance this year, including the long-awaited Celeste and Jesse Forever, Bachelorette and Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me. The latter, based on Birbiglia's one-man show, sounds especially exciting. Birbiglia says it's about “the concept [that] you can talk about these things you're ashamed of, and more often than not, you find a deeper connection with people. The one thing you’re most reluctant to tell, that’s where the comedy is.” (I just picked my nose and I constantly crave the approval of everyone I meet. Did I do it right?)
Here's a clip from Mike Birbiglia's new album, Sleepwalk With Me: Live, that's been animated to provide visuals to Mike's story about encountering a bear. If you are still somehow unfamiliar with this set of stories and jokes, despite the acclaimed off-Broadway show, book and now album, this is a good intro!
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