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Mar 03, 2020 sleepwalking with comedian mike birbiglia the safeforwork comedian talks to the daily dot about his new film, sleepwalk with me, and his twitter campaign to bring it to a theater near you. His 20 special, my girlfriends boyfriend, was nominated for comedy special of the year at the american comedy. The film had its world premiere at the sundance film festival on january 23, 2012, where it won the best of next audience award. With mike birbiglia, lauren ambrose, james rebhorn, carol kane. What i should have said was nothing 2008 and your sisters sister 2011. Standup comic mike birbiglia makes his debut as actorwriterproducerdirector in this woody allenesque fusion of relationship problems and self exploration. Jul 27, 2016 art is socialism, but life is capitalism. He recounts his worst episode as well as other painfully embarrassing moments in his comedic memoir, sleepwalk with me. Also, he has made his appearances in the films like your sisters sister. Birbiglia adapted from his 2008 oneman show with the producer ira glass this american life, joe.
Fans of standup comedian mike birbiglia cedar rapids and this american life host ira glass will want to check out sleepwalk with me when it debuts later this. The tonight show starring jimmy fallon 164,568 views. Mike birbiglia is a comedian, author, actor, and director. His one person shows sleepwalk with me and my girlfriends boyfriend have both run successfully offbroadway and toured internationally. Its also the first movie from ira glass and coproduced by this american life. Its seen life as a oneman theater production, a radio story on this american.
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Mike birbiglia was born on june 20, 1978 in shrewsbury, massachusetts, usa. Sleepwalk with me 2012 sleepwalk with me 2012 user. Mike birbiglia has long been called a rising star in comedy as he prowled stages across america over the past decade. His standup blends elements of theater, film, storytelling, and comedy. Or the honeymooners, when ed norton is sleepwalking and ralph kramden has to help him. He wrote, starred, and directed the comedydrama dont think twice in 2016. He also wrote, directed, and starred in the comedydrama dont think twice. Mike birbiglia this american life stranger in the night.
Mike birbiglia, sleepwalk ing on the big screen the comedian cowrote a film with ira glass, of public radios this american life, about his life. A surprisingly great comedy from comedian mike birbiglia, who along with starring also directed and wrote the movie. Sleepwalk with me 2012 mike birbiglia, seth barrish. Sleepwalk with me, mike birbiglia s comedyshowturnedbookturnedonemanoffbroadwayshowturned this american life featureturnedsundancedarlingturnedgrassrootsboxofficehit, has got to. Mike birbiglia biography affair, married, wife, ethnicity. So asserts comedianturnedplaywrightturnedfilmmaker mike birbiglia directly. Oct 18, 2010 comedian mike birbiglia has a disorder that makes him sleepwalk. Comedian mike birbiglia has a disorder that makes him sleepwalk. Shortly after, he made a live standup record and wrote a book of the same name. But making sleepwalk with me, based on birbiglias oneman show and. Fortunately, birbiglia hasnt had further nocturnal defenestrations.
Birbiglia took his sleepwalking woes and made a hit oneman offbroadway show about it called sleepwalk with me. Mike birbiglia, working from a script cowritten with his brother joe birbiglia, seth barrish, and this american lifes ira glass, has a soothing, safe quality about him. He is a frequent contributor to this american life and the moth, and has released several comedy albums and television specials. Mike birbiglia bares his soul in this unbelievable autobiography wherein he reenacts everything from his deadend career as a comedianbartender, to his troubled relationship with his girlfriend of 8 years, and not to mention his rare and dangerous condition which causes him to sleepwalk and unconsciously act out his dreams. Think about olive oyl in the popeye cartoons, when she goes to the construction site and bluto and popeye have to help her, comedianturnedfilmmaker mike birbiglia told ifc. Mike birbiglia busted his face sleepwalking out of the temple of doom duration. Mike birbiglia is a sleepwalker, a condition that has gotten him into trouble over the years, like the time he jumped through a hotel window in a panic because he was trying to escape a missile. Sleepwalk with me is an off broadway show by standup comedian mike birbiglia which deals with his bouts of sleepwalking and his search for love and happiness in the city.
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