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Sal Vulcano | A Bonafide Lunatic | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
In celebration of his new special “Terrified,” the Impractical Jokers star Sal Vulcano joins Mike for what starts as a normal interview and then turns into a podcast full of stories stranger than the last: Sal’s prank on an overbearing TV executive, how Sal ended up with *multiple* photorealistic tattoos of Jaden Smith, Sal’s never-ending eBay dispute, and how Sal put his foot in his mouth irrevocably with Rachel McAdams. All that, plus a few more stories that have Mike ending the podcast with the statement: “You shouldn’t even be allowed to be here.”
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Hosted and Produced by Mike Birbiglia
Producers: Peter Salomone, Joseph Birbiglia, Mabel Lewis
Associate Producer: Gary Simons
Consulting Producer: Seth Barrish
Video Consultant: Graham Willoughby
Special Thanks: Marissa Hurwitz, Josh Upfal, David Raphael, Nina Cwik, J. Hope Stein, Oona
Music: Jack Antonoff and Bleachers
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Janine Harouni | But She's Funny | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Comedian Janine Harouni and Mike have a lot in common. They both survived severe car accidents, they have similar relationships with their parents, and they both value the quality of being vulnerable on stage. Mike and Janine discuss the process of turning a traumatic experience into a comedic story, and how Janine’s recovery from her car accident helped her better connect with her parents and ...
Pete Holmes | Working It Weird | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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From the studio of Pete’s podcast, You Made It Weird, Pete and Mike record an all new episode of Working It Out. Pete brings new and improved roasted of Mike while retroactively responding to Mike’s roasts of Pete from their previous episode. Plus the two comics have one of the most pure Working It Out sessions of all time as they create jokes in real time about their complex relationships with...
Rachel Feinstein | She's On Fire | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Working It Out hall-of-famer Rachel Feinstein returns to the podcast on the heels of her hit Netflix special Big Guy. Rachel explains why her firefighter husband loves being roasted in her special and why he pronounces the word “cash” like “quiche.” Rachel shares an absurd road story featuring Kevin Hart and Keith Robinson and discusses why you should never ask a comic how *they* felt about the...
John August | Screenwriting Advice You’ll Actually Use | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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For this special episode of Working It out, Mike welcomes John August, the screenwriter behind Charlie’s Angels with Drew Barrymore, Tim Burton’s Big Fish, and his breakthrough film Go, which is celebrating its 25 year anniversary. John co-hosts the screenwriting podcast Scriptnotes with Craig Mazin (The Last of Us), which is not only Mike’s favorite screenwriting podcast, but his favorite podc...
Judd Apatow | Hold On To That Authenticity | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
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This week the legendary Judd Apatow returns to Working It Out for his fourth and best appearance yet. Judd tells behind-the-scenes stories from Bridesmaids and Funny People, as well as the most helpful filmmaking advice he’s gotten from other greats along the way. Judd and Mike also break apart the story of Judd’s first ayahuasca trip-and what that experience might have to do with both his pare...
Chris Fleming | He Should Be Way More Popular | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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In Chris Fleming’s recent Peacock stand-up special Hell, he calls out some audience members who are married and shouts, “This show is not for people who have wives. You have a wife?! Go see Mike Birbiglia!” Fleming is fearless about dragging the names of other comedians into his bits: from Bo Burham to Nikki Glaser to Bert Kreischer and more. Chris is a Massachusetts theater kid turned comedian...
Rory Scovel | Dare to Be Funny | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Mike welcomes Rory Scovel, whose special made Mike laugh so hard he spit water all over himself. Rory talks about how telling the truth and being vulnerable on stage led him to his best bits, how his taking up abstract painting is similar to comedy, and how a week of fully improvised stand-up shows gave Rory a new perspective on his career. Plus, the best and most off-the-rails “Working It Out”...
Alex Edelman | He Did His Best | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Alex Edelman | He Did His Best | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Esther Povitsky | What Is Your Comedy Attachment Style? | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
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Esther Povitsky | What Is Your Comedy Attachment Style? | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
Seth Meyers Shares the Best Piece of advice He Got at SNL | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Seth Meyers Shares the Best Piece of advice He Got at SNL | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Seth Meyers Thinks Fred Armisen and Andy Samberg Are Funnier Than People Realize | Working It Out
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Seth Meyers Thinks Fred Armisen and Andy Samberg Are Funnier Than People Realize | Working It Out
Seth Meyers says Lorne Michaels leaving SNL is a "False Narrative" | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
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Seth Meyers says Lorne Michaels leaving SNL is a "False Narrative" | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Seth Meyers | SNL, Late Night, and a Ton of New Jokes | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
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Seth Meyers | SNL, Late Night, and a Ton of New Jokes | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Ilana Glazer | Life Lessons from the Broad City Star | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Ilana Glazer | Life Lessons from the Broad City Star | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Chris Distefano Almost Got Stabbed By The Mob | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Chris Distefano Almost Got Stabbed By The Mob | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Please Don’t Destroy Share Their Worst and Best Traits | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Please Don’t Destroy Share Their Worst and Best Traits | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
SNL’s Please Don’t Destroy on Working With Bad Bunny | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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SNL’s Please Don’t Destroy on Working With Bad Bunny | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Chris Distefano | Crowd Work With The Mob | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
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Chris Distefano | Crowd Work With The Mob | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Please Don't Destroy | SNL’s Three Sad Virgins | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Please Don't Destroy | SNL’s Three Sad Virgins | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Roy Wood Jr. | Perfect Jokes From an Imperfect Messenger | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
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Roy Wood Jr. | Perfect Jokes From an Imperfect Messenger | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
Maddie Wiener | How to Find the Humor in a Panic Attack | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Maddie Wiener | How to Find the Humor in a Panic Attack | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Ronny Chieng | Classic American Show Business | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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Ronny Chieng | Classic American Show Business | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Rosebud Baker | Pregnant with Jokes and People | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
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Rosebud Baker | Pregnant with Jokes and People | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
John Early | A Man With Needs | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
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John Early | A Man With Needs | Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out Podcast
Beth Stelling Responds To Mean Facebook Comments
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Beth Stelling Responds To Mean Facebook Comments
Jimmy Carr On His Most Emotional Audience Interaction
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Jimmy Carr On His Most Emotional Audience Interaction
Jimmy Carr on What He Learned From Getting Cancelled
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Jimmy Carr on What He Learned From Getting Cancelled
Pete Holmes is Jim Carrey Without The Hit Movies
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Pete Holmes is Jim Carrey Without The Hit Movies
Beth Stelling | Two Skeletons Telling Jokes | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast
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Beth Stelling | Two Skeletons Telling Jokes | Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out Podcast

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @generalfeed123
    @generalfeed123 День тому

    come to Houston Ronny!

  • @cassieshoemaker4733
    @cassieshoemaker4733 День тому

    There are so many comedy podcasts but this one is so special. You can tell Mike just really loves to laugh. Quickly becoming one of my favorite pods. ❤

  • @braydenpresley1437
    @braydenpresley1437 2 дні тому

    "Terrified" was amazing. Sal is such a kind, gentle, hilarious soul. Love the two of you getting together for a chat.

  • @molsondutch93
    @molsondutch93 2 дні тому

    Chris is so uniquely hilarious, love him

  • @BellyLaugher
    @BellyLaugher 2 дні тому

    A lot of healthcare workers, over time, develop latex allergies from increased latex contact (espec. if powdered gloves➡the latex gets airborne via the powder & inadvertently we breathe it in) Latex is in soooo many things in our environment, so if you develop an allergy & bump against, eg bike, or stroller tire, you can go into anaphylactic shock...So that's why hospitals are using non-latex now. Could you pass that on to Janine to let her father know➡b/c it's not like the immediate kind of allergy response most of us have been taught about➡it can take years before you get the reaction & the one you get can be deadly.

  • @BellyLaugher
    @BellyLaugher 2 дні тому

    What a precious thing❣to hearJanine tell you that seeing/hearing your comedy show in-person/your unusual, particular style is how she recognized doing stand-up was/is a possibility for her creative talents, too. Touching.

  • @BellyLaugher
    @BellyLaugher 2 дні тому

    @BellyLaugher 0 seconds ago RE: 2Write it Down or Go2sleep. TRY TAPE RECORDER...NOT YOUR PHONE's recorder, tho➡old-fashioned, mini-cassette/or hand-hold regular size (not digital➡too easy to press wrong button/erase or not record). Put it under or next to pillow...You'll probably get variable results at 1st, but after awhile your brain catches on...& even if you fall back to sleep, you just rewind it back & you'll catch all of it, or enough to catch it again. Doing this won't bring you all the way back up to the surface of "AWAKE," you're still in hypnogogic-ish realm. I think, & then you can slide back down into sleep mode.

  • @TimCrowleyFilms
    @TimCrowleyFilms 2 дні тому

    Sal is a big enough star that I think he could get EBay to sponsor the bit of confronting this guy and go WILDLY over the top with it. 😂

  • @sidinator3000
    @sidinator3000 2 дні тому

    Being aware of Sal’s arguing skills from taste buds, I’m imagining this comedy exec to be Derosa and they’re getting louder and more wrong. 😂

  • @detinic3119
    @detinic3119 2 дні тому

    ...but we're not animals....

  • @Mikee22ification
    @Mikee22ification 3 дні тому

    Spolini's, Queens

  • @ChiefLilly71
    @ChiefLilly71 4 дні тому

    I’m great friends of her parents! She is a wonderful lady, even if she not on the right side of the fence! 😅😂 I consider her entire family as my family.

  • @emisformaker
    @emisformaker 4 дні тому

    The hiding behind the couch on the floor is so relatably autistic. Small space, but not confining. Hidden. Noises are muffled. Kinda wish I owned a sofa.

  • @dawnkubicek3461
    @dawnkubicek3461 5 днів тому

    Does the glass sandwich come with mayo? Asking for a friend..

  • @caycehorton3567
    @caycehorton3567 5 днів тому

    The Georgia hat joke = you and your dad trying to understand each other through sports & academics. You never quite learned his language, but do you still know each other? How does that link to knowing him as Brooklyn/gi bill Dr in Texas? You're not the same and you speak a different language, but do you still know each other? Are you teaching your daughter your language? Are you letting her know you? - love the show!

  • @JordanAnthonySmith
    @JordanAnthonySmith 7 днів тому

    Gotta say. That’s a solid birbiglia impression.

  • @antoniasteins3131
    @antoniasteins3131 7 днів тому

    Watching this episode is my new happy place. The deep conversation and two very different very good blue outfits. 💙

  • @PieretteLemieux-bd6ll
    @PieretteLemieux-bd6ll 7 днів тому

    Interesting interview in places. You touched on the value and nuances of incongruity- you might find the philosophy of comedy fun Humorous amusement is not just any response to incongruity, but a way of enjoying incongruity. Michael Clark, for example, offers these three features as necessary and sufficient for humor: 1 A person perceives (thinks, imagines) an object as being incongruous. 2 The person enjoys perceiving (thinking, imagining) the object. 3 The person enjoys the perceived (thought, imagined) incongruity at least partly for itself, rather than solely for some ulterior reason (in Morreall 1987, 139-155). Plato, the most influential critic of laughter, treated laughter as an emotion that overrides rational self-control. In the Republic (388e), he says that the Guardians of the state should avoid laughter, “for ordinarily when one abandons himself to violent laughter, his condition provokes a violent reaction.” Especially disturbing to Plato were the passages in the Iliad and the Odyssey where Mount Olympus was said to ring with the laughter of the gods. He protested that “if anyone represents men of worth as overpowered by laughter we must not accept it, much less if gods.” Another of Plato’s objections to laughter is that it is malicious. In Philebus (48-50), he analyzes the enjoyment of comedy as a form of scorn. “Taken generally,” he says, “the ridiculous is a certain kind of evil, specifically a vice.” That vice is self-ignorance: the people we laugh at imagine themselves to be wealthier, better looking, or more virtuous than they really are. In laughing at them, we take delight in something evil-their self-ignorance-and that malice is morally objectionable. Because of these objections to laughter and humor, Plato says that in the ideal state, comedy should be tightly controlled. “We shall enjoin that such representations be left to slaves or hired aliens, and that they receive no serious consideration whatsoever. No free person, whether woman or man, shall be found taking lessons in them.” “No composer of comedy, iambic or lyric verse shall be permitted to hold any citizen up to laughter, by word or gesture, with passion or otherwise” (Laws, 7: 816e; 11: 935e). Greek thinkers after Plato had similarly negative comments about laughter and humor. Though Aristotle considered wit a valuable part of conversation (Nicomachean Ethics 4, 8), he agreed with Plato that laughter expresses scorn. Wit, he says in the Rhetoric (2, 12), is educated insolence. In the Nicomachean Ethics (4, 8) he warns that “Most people enjoy amusement and jesting more than they should … a jest is a kind of mockery, and lawgivers forbid some kinds of mockery-perhaps they ought to have forbidden some kinds of jesting.” The Stoics, with their emphasis on self-control, agreed with Plato that laughter diminishes self-control. Epictetus’s Enchiridion (33) advises “Let not your laughter be loud, frequent, or unrestrained.” His followers said that he never laughed at all. These objections to laughter and humor influenced early Christian thinkers, and through them later European culture. Later philosophers were less skeptical of humour. Called incongruity theory of humour ( Aristotle briefly covers it as a form of humour but mostly focused on negatives of cycnicism/irony. Schopenhauer locates it between our sense perceptions of things and our abstract rational knowledge of those same things. We perceive unique individual things with many properties. But when we group our sense perceptions under abstract concepts, we focus on just one or a few properties of any individual thing. Thus we lump quite different things under one concept and one word. Eg a Chihuahua and a St. Bernard categorized under dog. For Schopenhauer, humor arises when we suddenly notice the incongruity between a concept and a perception that are supposed to be of the same thing. As an example, Schopenhauer tells of the prison guards who allowed a convict to play cards with them, but when they caught him cheating, they kicked him out. He also comments on an Austrian joke : When someone had declared that he was fond of walking alone, an Austrian said to him: “You like walking alone; so do I: therefore we can go together.” Then he relates it back to scorn and why all preceding and some current to his time philosophers focused on scorn That the laughter of others at what we do or say seriously offends us so keenly depends on the fact that it asserts that there is a great incongruity between our conceptions and the objective realities. For the same reason, the predicate “ludicrous” or “absurd” is insulting. The laugh of scorn announces with triumph to the baffled adversary how incongruous were the conceptions he cherished with the reality which is now revealing itself to him (Supplement to Book I, Ch. 8). ( much of this is from someone who posted an essay of theirs online)

  • @expectationlost
    @expectationlost 7 днів тому

    Divorce wasn't legalised in Ireland till 1997, unbelievable but true.

  • @escogido111
    @escogido111 8 днів тому

    This roast was top tier

  • @BeComedyUK
    @BeComedyUK 8 днів тому

    This is so inspiring

  • @hor2kulture
    @hor2kulture 8 днів тому

    I Would have liked to have listened to the whole interview because I LOVE Ilana, but Mike's vocal fry made that impossible.

  • @commoncavecricket
    @commoncavecricket 8 днів тому

    I binge these whenever I can. Great show. Thanks for making them.

  • @oLivaz22
    @oLivaz22 8 днів тому

    This is great! I love comedy that has pathos. Joking about sad things helps people that have gone through similar things

  • @JayMakinen
    @JayMakinen 9 днів тому

    For the first second you can see that both of guys don't like each other

  • @damnjjwtf
    @damnjjwtf 9 днів тому

    Catastrophe was SO underrated. ♥

  • @WardWyatt
    @WardWyatt 9 днів тому

    This is absolutely incredible premise and story. I hope to catch this in Texas!

  • @MichaelEspaillat-rg1rw
    @MichaelEspaillat-rg1rw 9 днів тому

    Coney Island mascot is crazy

  • @mrjs8611
    @mrjs8611 9 днів тому

    I don't know who originally said this but I had a teacher teaching Shakespeare once tell me that the difference between a tragedy and a comedy is where you put the ending.

  • @randallarmstrong1840
    @randallarmstrong1840 9 днів тому

    She needs to wake up to the fact that her dad is right.

    • @ChiefLilly71
      @ChiefLilly71 4 дні тому

      So everything your parents say is true!?! Well… that’s your opinion!

  • @jaybirdsmusic6659
    @jaybirdsmusic6659 9 днів тому

    All these episodes are good. This one is great.

  • @rebeccamuntean1320
    @rebeccamuntean1320 9 днів тому

    Where has this woman been all my life

  • @JoanneWhitlock
    @JoanneWhitlock 9 днів тому

    Thank you once again, this warms my heart to hear people working it out too. Plus re putting stuff out there before ready, I’m sharing videos right now that are terrible cause I’m new at it. I don’t want to be new or bad and I’m kind of shutting my eyes and pretending I don’t see! By the end of the year I’ll be better right?

  • @heyelliew
    @heyelliew 9 днів тому

    Ah! I recently saw her show at The Den Theatre and loved it! Good interview you two! Thanks!

  • @seventhsteel1415
    @seventhsteel1415 10 днів тому

    Now I’d like to hear the rest of the avocado bit

  • @JDMimeTHEFIRST
    @JDMimeTHEFIRST 10 днів тому

    MA is repressed because it's filled with judgmental neurotypical aholes. So all the people who actually want to have fun and enjoy life in their way have been afraid to for fear of brutal bullying. People there get fired for being autistic and it's still legal to electroshock autistic kids. So that's why us weird people couldn't be ourselves and let loose.

  • @HellSpawn83
    @HellSpawn83 10 днів тому

    Love Greg! This one was so funny.

  • @DeanDavisMarketing
    @DeanDavisMarketing 11 днів тому

    I honestly think Seth Meyers would hate me in real life because I want tariffs from Trump, but I really love him a lot.

  • @FeedMeMedia
    @FeedMeMedia 11 днів тому

    How long has Pete Holmes attempted to be "edgy?"

  • @skywardguy9081
    @skywardguy9081 11 днів тому

    Put these two together for guaranteed hilarity!!

  • @bobknip
    @bobknip 11 днів тому

    "You Made it Work"

  • @StudiousPooper
    @StudiousPooper 12 днів тому

    These guys are 100% the best "podcast bros" out there

  • @thrillkiller666
    @thrillkiller666 12 днів тому

    "Dip dip dip dip dip the hat", Fully formed perfect bit, hilarious.

  • @andreydronov1012
    @andreydronov1012 12 днів тому

    "I guess we will never understand each other" is a madness of a punchline. I love it.

  • @andreydronov1012
    @andreydronov1012 12 днів тому

    "Every side has two stories" is a very cool line.

  • @jkerwin27
    @jkerwin27 13 днів тому

    MIKE! Can you please have Hank Green on the pod? He is about to do a comedy special about how he pissed out all his cancer 😂😂😂

  • @stuartrose3402
    @stuartrose3402 13 днів тому

    I do wish I had conversations go this well.

  • @DeanDavisMarketing
    @DeanDavisMarketing 13 днів тому

    This Chris guy seems like the most likable person. A dude like this makes cool friends seem worth scouring high a low for.

  • @fiscaldisco5234
    @fiscaldisco5234 13 днів тому

    it's actually stressing me out that he is not writing down some of those hilarious observations

  • @whatagreathandle
    @whatagreathandle 13 днів тому

    46:38 Mike, the Georgia joke is about language and misunderstanding. The same thing applies to your conversations with your father. You're speaking the same language, but sometimes can't understand each other. That's how it fits into the show.