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Like most comedians,Mike Birbigliasuddenly found himselfwithout any upcoming gigsonce the COVID-19 pandemic really hit the U.S. And its certainly not okay, but what are you going to do?
Explain a global pandemic to your daughter whos 5?
Thats hard to do.
I wasnt going to fly cause the virus is out there, but they werent canceling shows.
Then we realized, Oh, this is very real.
There were two things I learned from that.
One is that the Joe Rogan podcast is very powerful for affecting culture.
So, I literally just drove home.
I drove four hours to Ithaca, drove four hours home, and Ive been home ever since.
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So, under any other circumstances, I really wouldnt let people into this part of the process.
Its like youre sharing your training videos.But its even stranger!
Its more like a novelist showing you their first draft of their novel, which is mortifying.
Its mortifying to show people your first draft of anything.
I mean, were really just figuring it out as we go.
We dont know where its heading.
Its like a fire drill.
Were making it up as we go.
And also, Im going to run out of jokes.
I mean, the premise is, they have three jokes and I have three jokes.
At a certain point, Im going to run out.
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Do you have a plan for that?No, I have no plan.
I mean, other than Ive gotta take a stab at write some jokes.
How has this isolation been for you, creatively?Its okay.
I mean, I have a 5-year-old.
But thats not how aging works.
So, shes 5 and she will continue to age, as far as we know.
So were currently, like everybody else with children, homeschooling.
Right now, were still working out the kinks.
You know that youre in store for something great.
This show, at its best, is that.
The great @GaryGulman tells a story about when he worked at Starbucks.
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Mulaneyhad a few lines like that.
Its literally just the setup, and to me, it kills.
He could do five minutes on that.
Sometimes, just the setup alone is fun to be there for, especially for the incarnation of it.
Youre seeing John, one of the worlds greatest comedians, coming up with something in real time.
you might literally witness the glimmer in his eye of realization that hes onto something.
Would you take money from Dominos?Oh my God.
Dont … dont make me … dont make me evoke the movieSophies Choice.
Look, I mean, well do what we have to do if we get desperate.
Dominos and desperation run hand in hand, and it may come to that.
